I Zingari League
The I Zingari League was an amateur association football competition based in Liverpool, England which existed from 1895.
Its name means 'the gypsies' in dialecticised Italian, and I Zingari was the name of an English amateur cricket club formed in 1845, and an Australian one formed 40 years later. The Liverpool football league’s name invokes their spirit of amateur competition.
The league ran until 2006, when it merged with the Liverpool County Combination to form the new Liverpool County Premier League. It was at one time a feeder to the North West Counties League.
Geographically, the League's member clubs spanned an area administered by the Liverpool County Football Association, Cheshire Football Association and Lancashire County Football Association and players from the League's clubs have played in the representative teams of all three associations. Two players gained a cap for the England national amateur football team whilst playing for clubs in the I Zingari League, J B Healey in 1908 and A E Millington in 1930, despite the longstanding bias of the selection process in favour of players from clubs in London and the South East.
Notable local non-league clubs Marine and Formby competed in this league in the past. Formby's spell was 1931-38, during which time Albert Tomkin signed directly from Formby to Tottenham Hotspur in the Football League Second Division.
A representative fixture against the Lancashire Amateur League was played annually between 1919 and the league's discontinuation.
Member clubs
The final season's Premier Division featured 14 teams. The final champions were Old Xaverians.| Alsop OB |
| BRNESC |
| Collegiate OB |
| East Villa |
| Hill Athletic |
| Liverpool NALGO |
| Mackets |
| NELTC |
| Old Xaverians |
| Quarry Bank OB |
| Red Rum |
| Roma |
| Turpins Devonshire |
| Warbreck |