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((Short description|British footballer (1855–1936)))
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| birth_place      = [[County Monaghan]], [[Ireland]]
| death_date       = ((death date and age|df=y|1936|3|22|1855|1|3))
| death_place      = [[Walton, Liverpool]]
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| managerclubs1    = [[Liverpool F.C.|Liverpool]] (with [[William Edward Barclay|William Barclay]])
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'''John McKenna''' (((lang-ga|Seán Mac Cionnaoith)); 3 January 1855 – 22 March 1936) was an [[Irish people|Irish]] businessman, professional [[Rugby football|rugby]] player,<ref name="LFC">((cite web | url=http://www.liverpoolfc.com/history/past-managers/john-mckenna | title=John McKenna | publisher=Liverpool Football Club and Athletic Grounds | access-date=17 September 2016 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160928023337/http://www.liverpoolfc.com/history/past-managers/john-mckenna | archive-date=28 September 2016 ))</ref> and  the first manager of the [[Liverpool Football Club]] which has since gone on to become one of the most successful football clubs in England.

==Early life and career==
McKenna was born on 3 January 1855 in [[Glaslough]], a village in the north-east corner of [[County Monaghan]] in [[Ireland]]. Glaslough, in South [[Ulster]], was and is part of the Parish of Donagh.<ref> Civil Parish of Donagh, Co. Monaghan. https://www.townlands.ie/monaghan/donagh/</ref> He was the son of Patrick McKenna and Jane McCrudden. In the 1870s he moved to [[Liverpool]] seeking work which he soon found at a grocery store, and later as a vaccination officer for the West Derby Union. McKenna had a keen interest in sports, particularly rugby, as well as football and shooting sports. He helped form a regimental rugby club and joined the West Lancashire County Rugby Football Union.

==Liverpool F.C.==
McKenna met the founder of Liverpool Football Club [[John Houlding]],((when|date=February 2014)) who invited him to [[Anfield]] to watch his [[Everton F.C.|Everton]] team play. He remained with Houlding after Everton left Anfield for [[Goodison Park]]. Houlding was a major driving force for Liverpool throughout the early years,<ref name="LFC Stats">((cite web | url=http://lfcstats.co.uk/mckennaprofile.html | title=Liverpool F.C. Past Managers John McKenna | work=lfcstats.co.uk | access-date=10 April 2014))</ref>((when|date=February 2014)) and he used his connections to look for players in [[Glasgow]]. His team was known as the "Team of Macs" due to the number of players with "Mc" in their surname: [[Duncan McLean (footballer born 1869)|Duncan McLean]], [[James McBride (footballer)|James McBride]], [[Malcolm McVean]], [[Hugh McQueen]], [[Matt McQueen]], [[John McCartney (footballer born 1870)|John McCartney]], [[Bill McOwen]] and [[Joe McQue]].((Citation needed|date=May 2015))

Acting as the club's secretary, McKenna telegraphed((when|date=February 2014)) the [[Football League]] asking for [[Liverpool F.C.|Liverpool]] to be admitted, but was denied entry by [[the Football Association]]. This refusal forced McKenna to guide Liverpool through the ranks of the [[Lancashire League (football)|Lancashire League]] on his own. Liverpool played their first game with an 8–0 win at [[Anfield]] against Higher Walton, with John Smith scoring the first competitive goal. After ending their first competitive season as champions, Liverpool were elected into the Football League, and played their first Football League match away to [[Middlesbrough Ironopolis F.C.|Middlesbrough Ironopolis]] on 2 September 1893, and won 2–0.((Citation needed|date=May 2015))

McKenna served as Liverpool's chairman from 1906-1915. He was elected president of the Football League in 1917, a position he held for nearly 20 years until his death in March 1936.<ref>((cite web|title=22 March 1936 - The Passing Of A Liverpool Legend| url=http://tdifh.blogspot.com.au/2013/03/22-march-1936-passing-of-liverpool.html |work= www.thisdayinfootballhistory.blogspot.com |access-date= 30 March 2013))</ref>  He had served Liverpool for over 40 years.<ref name="LFC" /> Like Houlding, McKenna was an active [[freemason]], attending Cecil Lodge No. 3274.<ref name="mason">
((cite news
|url= http://woolton.westlancsfreemasons.org.uk/2215-anfield-lodge/
|title= Anfield Lodge No. 2215
|date= 15 October 2017
|work= Woolton Group of Lodges and Chapters
))</ref>

==Death and legacy==

His coffin was carried through the city by three Liverpool players and three Everton players. A plaque in commemoration to him remains in the foyer in Anfield.<ref name="LFC" />   In August 2011, a commemorative plaque in honour of Liverpool FC's first manager John McKenna was unveiled in [[Glaslough]] in [[County Monaghan]], [[Ireland]]. Over 200 people attended an informative talk on McKenna by Keith Falkiner, author of the book ''Emerald Anfield'', in the local community hall before the plaque was unveiled by Kopite and LFC Donegal secretary David Moen.((Citation needed|date=May 2015))

At the conclusion of his talk, Falkiner summed up the achievements of McKenna, saying, "The course of history has proven John McKenna to be one of the most powerful and successful men at Liverpool Football Club - the third most important figure, in my opinion, after only Bill Shankly and the clubs founder John Houlding. The people of Monaghan should be proud of this history and proud of 'Honest' John McKenna - who is arguably the greatest Irishman who has ever been involved with the game of association football in Britain."<ref name="LFC Stats"/>

==Other Historical Information==
John McKenna, during his position as Football League President, formally opened the current 'South Stand' at [[Portsmouth FC]]'s [[Fratton Park]] stadium in 1925. The stand was designed by renowned architect, [[Archibald Leitch]]. A plaque in the 'South Stand' still marks the occasion.

==References==
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==External links==
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* [https://web.archive.org/web/20071004214252/http://www.lfchistory.net/managers_profile.asp?manager_id=1 Manager profile at LFChistory.net]
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