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Bootle F.C. are an English football club from Bootle, Merseyside. The club are currently in the North West Counties League Division Two, having won promotion from the Liverpool County Combination in 2006, and play their home matches at Bucks Park, which has a capacity of 5,000 (400 seated, 4,600 standing).

They are not the same club as the original Bootle F.C. who were in The Football League for one season in 1892-3, but rather a new club founded in 1953.

The original Bootle F.C. were formed in 1880 and played at Hawthorne Road. In 1889/90 Bootle became founder members of the Football Alliance. That season was their most successful as they finished league runners-up, reached the quarter-finals of the FA Cup, where they lost to Blackburn Rovers and had their record attendance when 20,000 watched their Boxing Day home friendly game against local rivals Everton. When the Alliance merged with the Football League in 1892, Bootle became founder members of the new Second Division. However, despite a respectable 8th place final position, the club dropped out after one season (and were replaced by neighbours Liverpool) and seemingly disappeared due to financial problems.

Football returned to Hawthorne Road when a new club, Bootle Athletic F.C. was later formed with the new team initially playing in the Liverpool Leagues. In 1948 when they were elected to the Lancashire Combination 2, which they won at the first attempt. However, they struggled in the top-flight and after several tough seasons withdrew and folded during the 1953/54 campaign.

In 1953, the current club was formed as Langton F.C. and played in the local leagues. After a very successful spell in the Liverpool County Combination (which they won on numerous occasions) the club reverted back to its better known identity of Bootle F.C. in 1973 and a year later joined the Lancashire Combination, which they won in 1976 and 1977. They then joined the Second Division of the Cheshire County League, which they won in their first season, and were promoted to the First Division. In 1982 the Cheshire County League was one of the leagues that merged to form the North West Counties League, which Bootle duly joined, becoming a member of the First Division. The club spent most of their time in the First Division until 2000 when they dropped into the Second Division. However, despite finishing 6th in 2002, the club dropped into the Liverpool County Combination. In 2006 they were elected back into Division 2 of the North West Counties League.

• Full Record of Bootle's League Positions
• Full Record of Bootle Athletic's League Positions
• Full Record of Original Bootle's League Positions
• Bootle FC History + Playing Strip

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