West Cheshire Association Football League
Founded1892
Country England
DivisionsDivision One
Division Two
Division Three
Youth Division
Number of teams45
Level on pyramidLevel 11 (Division One)
Feeder toNorth West Counties League
Promotion toNorth West Counties League
Relegation toNone
Domestic cup(s)Pyke Cup
West Cheshire Bowl
West Cheshire Shield
Youth Plate
Current championsMersey Royal (Division One)
Helsby (Division Two)
Aintree Villa Res. (Division Three)
Mossley Hill u18 (Youth Division)
(2021-22)

The West Cheshire Association Football League (commonly known as the West Cheshire League) is an English football league in the county of Cheshire, which also includes teams from Merseyside. Its current principal sponsor is Carlsberg, also sponsor of the South West Peninsula League. It has a Division One, Division Two and Division Three. Division One sits at step 7 (or level 11) of the National League System.

The top five teams may be eligible for promotion to the North West Counties Football League Division One. After several triumphs in Division One, Cammell Laird was promoted to the North West Counties League in 2004, and its reserve team, which had won Division Two, was promoted to Division One. It was the only team since Vauxhall Motors to be promoted from the league, until Runcorn Town was promoted in 2010. In 2014, Vauxhall Motors returned to the league.

The league also runs cup competitions.

2022–23 member clubs

Division One

Division Two

Division Three

Divisional champions

1890s

Season Division One Division Two Division Three
1892–93 Ellesmere Port N/A N/A
1893–94 LNW Locomotives Cleveland Athletic N/A
1894–95 Port Sunlight LNW Locomotives reserves N/A
1895–96 Ellesmere Port Seacombe Swifts N/A
1896–97 Garston Copper Works Melrose reserves N/A
1897–98 Buckley Town Ellesmere Port N/A
1898–99 Flint Town Ellesmere Port N/A
1899–1900 New Brighton Tower reserves Wirral Railway reserves Victoria Swifts

1900s

Season Division One Division Two Division Three
1900–01 Wheatlands St. Nanthaniels Britannia reserves
1901–02 Wheatlands Wallasey Village Rake Lane PSA
1902–03 West Kirby Birkenhead North End Moreton
1903–04 Ellesmere Port Wallasey Village N/A
1904–05 Wrexham Victoria Rock Ferry N/A
1905–06 Garston Gasworks Tranmere Rovers reserves N/A
1906–07 Harrowby Heswall N/A
1907–08 African Royal Hoylake N/A
1908–09 African Royal Burnell Ironworks N/A
1909–10 Hoylake Bebington St. Andrews N/A

1910s

Season Division One Division Two Division Three
1910–11 Hoylake Domininion N/A
1911–12 Hoylake Wallasey Rovers N/A
1912–13 Harrowby Prescot Nomads N/A
1913–14 Garston Gasworks Hoylake Trinity N/A
1914–15 Harrowby* ? N/A
1915–16 No competition – WW1 No competition – WW1 N/A
1916–17 No competition – WW1 No competition – WW1 N/A
1917–18 No competition – WW1 No competition – WW1 N/A
1918–19 No competition – WW1 No competition – WW1 N/A
1919–20 Harrowby ? N/A

1920s

No known league tables found although it is believed that the competition did operate in the period.

1930s

No known league tables found although it is believed that the competition did operate in the period.

1940s

All football competitions were suspended in for the seasons from 1940–41 to 1945–46 due to the Second World War.

Season Division One Division Two Division Three
1946–47 Port Sunlight N/A N/A
1947–48 Stork Port Sunlight reserves N/A
1948–49 Stork Bromborough N/A
1949–50 Newton Eastham Athletic N/A

1950s

Season Division One Division Two Division Three
1950–51 Port Sunlight McAlpines N/A
1951–52 Bromborough Port Sunlight reserves N/A
1952–53 Birkenhead Docks Hoylake Athletic reserves N/A
1953–54 Everton 'C' Upton N/A
1954–55 Everton 'C' Upton N/A
1955–56 Newton Ashville N/A
1956–57 Stork Newton reserves N/A
1957–58 Ellesmere Port Town reserves Cammell Laird N/A
1958–59 Stork Cammell Laird N/A
1959–60 New Brighton reserves Hoylake Athletic N/A

1960s

Season Division One Division Two Division Three
1960–61 Newton Bromborough Pool N/A
1961–62 Newton Newton reserves N/A
1962–63 Stork Newton reserves N/A
1963–64 West Kirby Newton reserves N/A
1964–65 West Kirby Chester College N/A
1965–66 Harrowby Shell N/A
1966–67 Poulton Victoria Christleton N/A
1967–68 Ashville Bromborough N/A
1968–69 Cammell Laird Heswall N/A
1969–70 Christleton Harrowby N/A

1970s

Season Division One Division Two Division Three
1970–71 Cammell Laird Harrowby N/A
1971–72 Poulton Victoria Willaston N/A
1972–73 Port Sunlight Cammell Laird reserves N/A
1973–74 Port Sunlight Cadburys N/A
1974–75 Cammell Laird Port Sunlight reserves N/A
1975–76 Cammell Laird Poulton Victoria reserves N/A
1976–77 Cammell Laird Poulton Victoria reserves N/A
1977–78 Cammell Laird Poulton Victoria reserves N/A
1978–79 Cammell Laird Hoylake Athletic
1979–80 Poulton Victoria Hoylake Athletic N/A

1980s

Season Division One Division Two Division Three
1980–81 Cammell Laird Hoylake Athletic N/A
1981–82 Cammell Laird Poulton Victoria reserves N/A
1982–83 Cammell Laird Mersey Royal N/A
1983–84 Cammell Laird Mersey Royal N/A
1984–85 Heswall Cammell Laird reserves N/A
1985–86 Vauxhall Motors Merseyside Police N/A
1986–87 Cammell Laird Rivacre Sports & Social N/A
1987–88 Heswall Higher Bebington N/A
1988–89 Cammell Laird Higher Bebington N/A
1989–90 Cammell Laird Heswall Reserves N/A

1990s

Season Division One Division Two Division Three
1990–91 Cammell Laird Heswall reserves N/A
1991–92 Cammell Laird Poulton Victoria reserves N/A
1992–93 Christleton Cammell Laird reserves N/A
1993–94 Cammell Laird Cammell Laird reserves N/A
1994–95 Vauxhall Motors Vauxhall Motors reserves N/A
1995–96 Poulton Victoria Poulton Victoria reserves N/A
1996–97 Poulton Victoria Heswall reserves N/A
1997–98 Poulton Victoria General Chemicals N/A
1998–99 Cammell Laird Heswall reserves BICC Helsby
1999–2000 Poulton Victoria BICC Helsby Pavilions

2000s

Season Division One Division Two Division Three
2000–01 Cammell Laird Aintree Villa Mallaby
2001–02 Christleton Mallaby Maghull reserves
2002–03 Vauxhall Motors reserves Poulton Victoria reserves Ashville reserves
2003–04 Newton Merseyside Police MANWEB reserves
2004–05 Heswall New Brighton Mond Rangers reserves
2005–06 Poulton Victoria Upton Athletic Association West Kirby reserves
2006–07 West Kirby Runcorn Town AFC Bebington Athletic
2007–08 West Kirby Poulton Victoria reserves Mossley Hill Athletic
2008–09 West Kirby Helsby FC Pensby
2009–10 Cammell Laird reserves Southport Trinity Hale

2010s

Season Division One Division Two Division Three
2010–11 West Kirby Ashville Runcorn Linnets reserves
2011–12 Ashville Hale South Liverpool
2012–13 Heswall South Liverpool Marshalls reserves
2013–14 Maghull Capenhurst Villa Rainhill Town
2014–15 South Liverpool Rainhill Town Kirkby Town Railway
2015–16 South Liverpool Richmond Raith Rovers Bootle reserves
2016–17 Newton Ashville Rainhill Town reserves
2017–18 South Liverpool Hale Page Celtic
2018-19 Newton Page Celtic Aintree Villa
2019-20

2020s

Season Division One Division Two Division Three
2020-21 Season cancelled – Covid pandemic Season cancelled – Covid pandemic Season cancelled – Covid pandemic
2021-22 Mersey Royal Marine U23s Sutton Athletic
2022-23 Mersey Royal Helsby Aintree Villa Res

Sources FA Full-Time,Non League Matters

References

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