Liss Athletic F.C.
| Full name | Liss Athletic Football Club |
|---|---|
| Nickname(s) | Blues |
| Founded | 1962 |
| Ground | Newman Collard Park, Liss |
| Chairman | Peter Storrie |
| Manager | Mark Glazier |
| League | Hampshire Premier League Senior Division |
| 2023–24 | Hampshire Premier League Senior Division, 5th of 17 |
Liss Athletic F.C. is an amateur football club based in Liss, near Petersfield, in England. The club is affiliated to the Hampshire Football Association and is an England Accredited club[1] They are currently members of the Hampshire Premier League Senior Division.
History
[edit]Liss Athletic Football Club was established in 1962.[2] The club joined Division Four of the Hampshire League for the start of the 1975–76 campaign, and were immediately promoted to Division Three when they finished third.[3]
Further promotion followed in the 1979–80 season, when the top two teams expanded and Liss were placed in Division Two, where the club remained for three seasons before leaving the Hampshire League at the end of 1982–83.[4]
The club returned to the Hampshire League for the 1987–88 season, placed into Division Two, where they remained until 1994–95, promoted to Division One as champions.
Liss remained in the top tier of the Hampshire League until the end of the 2003–04 campaign, after which they joined the newly created Division Two of the Wessex League,[5] which then became Division One after two seasons, until the end of the 2007–08 campaign.[5]
Liss joined the newly formed Hampshire Premier League - which had been founded a season earlier, and were twice reprieved from relegation in finished bottom of the table in consecutive seasons of 2010-11 and 11-12 - with the club's best finish in recent years in 2016–17, when they finished fourth.[6]
After two abandoned seasons owing to the Covid pandemic, 2021/22 saw a new-look Liss Athletic finish just above the relegation spots under manager, Mark Glazier, with opportunity handed to a number of youth team players, where the club operates a side at every age group as part of its growing set-up.
Twelve months later, the side progressed to mid-table, while reaching its first League Cup semi-final for six years.
Continued on-field improvements saw the club rank fifth in 2023/24 – their highest HPFL finish for nine years.
The Blues also run a reserve side who participate in the Hampshire Combination & Development League.
Ground
[edit]Liss Athletic play their home games at Newman Collard Park, Hill Brow Road, Liss, Hampshire, GU33 7LE.
Honours
[edit]- Hampshire League Division Two:[7]
- Champions (1): 1994–95
Records
[edit]- Highest league position:[7] 5th in Wessex League Division Two 2005–06
- Record victory: 11-0 v Whitehill & Bordon Development, Aldershot Intermediate Cup, October 2024
- Record defeat: 2-14 v Colden Common, September 2019
- Record attendance: 414 v Pompey Legends, May 2024
References
[edit]- ^ "England Football Accreditation". HampshireFA. Retrieved 5 December 2022.
- ^ "Liss Athletic FC – History". www.pitchero.com/clubs/lissathletic. Retrieved 21 June 2022.
- ^ "Hampshire League 1970–1980". Nonleaguematters.net. Archived from the original on 25 September 2013. Retrieved 6 May 2013.
- ^ "Hampshire League 1980–1992". Nonleaguematters.net. Archived from the original on 25 September 2013. Retrieved 6 May 2013.
- ^ a b "Wessex League 1986–2011". Nonleaguematters.net. Archived from the original on 4 October 2013. Retrieved 6 May 2013.
- ^ "Hampshire Premier League 2007–2012". Nonleaguematters.net. Archived from the original on 27 September 2013. Retrieved 6 May 2013.
- ^ a b LISS ATHLETIC at the Football Club History Database