Liversedge F.C.
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| Full name | Liversedge Football Club |
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| Nickname(s) | Sedge |
| Founded | 1910 |
| Ground | Clayborn, Cleckheaton, West Yorkshire |
| Capacity | 2,200 (250 seated) |
| Chairman | Leigh Bromby |
| Manager | Jonathan Rimmington |
| League | Northern Counties East League Premier Division |
| 2016–17 | Northern Counties East League Premier Division, 11/22 |
Liversedge F.C. is a football club based in Cleckheaton, England, on the border with Hightown in Liversedge. For the 2013–14 season, they play in the Northern Counties East Football League Premier Division .
Liversedge play their home games at Clayborn, which features a clubhouse to the top west corner of the ground, covered seating at the North, and small covered terracing stand to the West behind the goal. Prior to the 2004–05 season the ground had a large slope from the north to the south. The pitch was dug up in closed season of 2005, and the surface was rebuilt from scratch to make a new, flat field. Liversedge had to play their first few games away for the 2005–06 season while the turf bedded in.
Liversedge have been close to promotion into a higher league, including the 2005–06 season, when they finished runners-up to Buxton and won the League Cup in addition. However, there were not sufficient facilities for promotion to the Northern Premier League, it was noted that they did not have separate changing rooms for female referees.
Sedge have an under-19s team who play in the Northern U19 Alliance League West Division.
In the 2004–05 season, under the guidance of Eugene Lacy the former Farsley Celtic manager, Liversedge reached the 4th qualifying round of the FA Cup and took Coalville Town to a replay after being robbed by a linesmans flag, having an Asif Hussain free kick chalked off for off side, Sky sports reports of the game showed the goal which proved to be wrongly disallowed. The draw saw them in the televised draw for the first round proper of the Cup, the stage where the Football League clubs join. Coalville won the replay 2–0 to face Wycombe Wanderers . That season saw Sedge finish the highest they have ever finished in the NCEL, finishing second behind high paying Buxton. Promotion wasn't to be as the ground was not up to the required standard at that time. Forward Paul Walker rejoined Sedge at the start of the 2009–10 season to play as a striker and by the start of December had scored 26 goals including 22 in the league, including 5 goals in the 9–2 home victory over basement club Brodsworth Welfare on 14 November. Several teams tried to sign him and he eventually left for Garforth Town in early December. Despite leaving for a Northern Premier League team so early in the season Walker still finished joint-5th top scorer in the Northern Counties East League Premier Division at the end of the season.
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