West Cheshire Association Football League


The West Cheshire Association Football 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 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.

2024–25 member clubs

Division One

  • AFC Knowsley
  • Aintree Villa
  • Capenhurst Villa
  • Chester Nomads
  • Ellesmere Port Town
  • FC Bootle
  • Helsby
  • Heswall
  • Litherland REMYCA
  • Marshalls
  • Mossley Hill Athletic
  • Newton
  • Rainhill Town
  • Runcorn Sports
  • South Liverpool
  • Vauxhall Motors

    Division Two

  • Aintree Villa
  • Cammell Laird 1907
  • Chester Nomads
  • FC Kirkby
  • Higher Bebington Kelma
  • Hooton
  • Maghull
  • Mallaby
  • Marshalls
  • Maghull
  • Mossley Hill Athletic
  • Neston Nomads
  • Runcorn Sports
  • South Sefton Borough
  • West Kirby

    Division Three

  • AFC Knowsley
  • Cammell Laird 1907
  • Capenhurst Villa
  • Christleton
  • Ellesmere Port Town
  • Great Sutton
  • Heswall
  • Maghull
  • Neston Nomads
  • Rainhill Town
  • Sefton Park Rangers
  • Shaftesbury
  • Sutton Rangers
  • West Kirby
  • Willaston

    Divisional champions

1890s

1900s

1910s

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.
SeasonDivision OneDivision TwoDivision Three
1946–47Port SunlightN/AN/A
1947–48StorkPort Sunlight reservesN/A
1948–49StorkBromboroughN/A
1949–50NewtonEastham AthleticN/A

1950s

1960s

1970s

1980s

1990s

2000s

2010s

2020s

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