New Brighton A.F.C.

The New Brighton Tower is implemented by the Association as a logo

The AFC New Brighton ( officially: New Brighton Association Football Club ) is a football club which is situated in north-west England on the Irish Sea in the south of Liverpool New Brighton.

The association founded in continuation of the tradition of the historic, vanished in the 1980s New Brighton Football Club 1993 plays these days in the West Cheshire League.

In Christchurch, New Zealand, there is another club called New Brighton AFC.

The historical FC Brighton

The FC Brighton ( officially: " Brighton Football Club " ) was 1921 out of the South football club Liverpool and took over his starting place in the Lancashire Combination League. As early as 1923 the club was admitted to the third division of the Football League.

The also Rakers or Towers called Team reached in 1927/28 for the first time the quarter-finals of the FA Cup, but was eliminated by Port Vale. 1937/38, followed by a renewed push into the quarterfinals, where this time but Tottenham Hotspur represented too high a hurdle. In the 1939/40 war - season, he reached the semifinals of the Cup competition of Wales.

1951 New Brighton different as Table of the Football League, and was again a member of the Lancashire Combination League. A great success was in season 1956/57, the third entry into the quarter-finals of the FA Cup competition. After the team's three Football League clubs, including the prestigious but then temporarily third-rate club Derby County ausschaltete, she failed this time at Burnley FC, which should be English champions in 1960 for the second time.

In 1965, joined the Cheshire County League New Brighton. 1979, the club got off to the second division of the league. In 1981 he left the League Table than completely and was dissolved.

The Association shall, after the 2009/10 season is still the 100th place in the Eternal table of the English professional football one.

Past Players

• Bill Lacey
• Tom Davis
• Matt O'Mahoney
• Alf Ainsworth