Liss Athletic F.C.
{{short description|Amateur football club based in Liss, England}}
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{{Infobox football club
| clubname = Liss Athletic
| fullname = Liss Athletic Football Club
| image = Liss_Athletic_badge.png
| nickname = Blues
| founded = 1962
| ground = Newman Collard Park, Liss
| chairman = Peter Storrie
| manager = Mark Glazier
| league = {{English football updater|LissAthl}}
| season = {{English football updater|LissAthl2}}
| position = {{English football updater|LissAthl3}}
}}
Liss Athletic F.C. is an amateur football club based in Liss, near Petersfield, in England. The club is affiliated to the Hampshire Football Association and is an England Accredited club{{cite web|url=https://www.hampshirefa.com/leagues-and-clubs/englandfootball-accreditation |title=England Football Accreditation |publisher=HampshireFA |accessdate=5 December 2022}} They are currently members of the {{English football updater|LissAthl}}.
History
Liss Athletic Football Club was established in 1962.{{cite web|url=https://www.pitchero.com/clubs/lissathletic/a/history-50417.html |title=Liss Athletic FC – History |website=www.pitchero.com/clubs/lissathletic |accessdate=21 June 2022}} The club joined Division Four of the Hampshire League for the start of the 1975–76 campaign, and were immediately promoted to Division Three when they finished third.{{cite web |url=http://www.nonleaguematters.net/Aarg3E/Ham70.htm |title=Hampshire League 1970–1980 |publisher=Nonleaguematters.net |accessdate=6 May 2013 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130925105735/http://www.nonleaguematters.net/Aarg3E/Ham70.htm |archivedate=25 September 2013 }}
Further promotion followed in the 1979–80 season, when the top two teams expanded and Liss were placed in Division Two, where the club remained for three seasons before leaving the Hampshire League at the end of 1982–83.{{cite web |url=http://www.nonleaguematters.net/Aarg3E/Ham80.htm |title=Hampshire League 1980–1992 |publisher=Nonleaguematters.net |accessdate=6 May 2013 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130925162018/http://www.nonleaguematters.net/Aarg3E/Ham80.htm |archivedate=25 September 2013 }}
The club returned to the Hampshire League for the 1987–88 season, placed into Division Two, where they remained until 1994–95, promoted to Division One as champions.
Liss remained in the top tier of the Hampshire League until the end of the 2003–04 campaign, after which they joined the newly created Division Two of the Wessex League,{{cite web |url=http://www.nonleaguematters.net/Regs1SthA/Wesx86.htm |title=Wessex League 1986–2011 |publisher=Nonleaguematters.net |accessdate=6 May 2013 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131004215744/http://www.nonleaguematters.net/Regs1SthA/Wesx86.htm |archivedate=4 October 2013 }} which then became Division One after two seasons, until the end of the 2007–08 campaign.
Liss joined the newly formed Hampshire Premier League - which had been founded a season earlier, and were twice reprieved from relegation in finished bottom of the table in consecutive seasons of 2010-11 and 11-12 - with the club's best finish in recent years in 2015–16, when they finished fourth.{{cite web |url=https://fchd.info/lghist/hampp2016.htm |title=Hampshire Premier League 2015–16 |publisher=FCHD.info |accessdate=3 April 2025 |archive-url=https://fchd.info/lghist/hampp2016.htm |archive-date=3 April 2025
The same season saw Liss reach the League Cup final, defeated 2-0 by Hamble Club at AFC Portchester - while the reserves brought silverware by completing the Combination (East) League and Cup double.
After two abandoned seasons owing to the Covid pandemic, 2021/22 saw a new-look Liss Athletic finish just above the relegation spots under manager, Mark Glazier, with opportunity handed to a number of youth team players, where the club operates a side at every age group as part of its growing set-up.
Twelve months later, the side progressed to mid-table, while reaching its first League Cup semi-final for six years.
Continued on-field improvements saw the club rank fifth in 2023/24 – their highest HPFL finish for eight years.
The Blues also run a reserve side who participate in the Hampshire Combination & Development League.
Ground
Liss Athletic play their home games at Newman Collard Park, Hill Brow Road, Liss, Hampshire, GU33 7LE.
Honours
- Hampshire League Division Two:{{fchd|name=LISS ATHLETIC|id=LISSATH}}
- Champions (1): 1994–95
- Hampshire Combination & Development League
- Cup Winners (1): 2024/25
- Hampshire Premier League Combination East
- Champions (1): 2015/16
- Hampshire Premier League Combination
- Cup Winners (1): 2015/16
Records
- Highest league position: 5th in Wessex League Division Two 2005–06
- Record victory: 11-0 v Whitehill & Bordon Development, Aldershot Intermediate Cup, October 2024
- Record defeat: 2-14 v Colden Common, September 2019
- Record attendance: 414 v Pompey Legends, May 2024
References
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External links
- [http://www.lissathleticfc.co.uk/ Club website]
- [https://www.fchd.info/LISSATH.HTM/ Liss Athletic - Football Club History Database]
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Category:Football clubs in Hampshire
Category:Association football clubs established in 1962
Category:Football clubs in England
Category:1962 establishments in England