Liversedge F.C.
Liversedge F.C. are a football club based in Cleckheaton, England, on the border with Hightown in Liversedge and members of the Northern Counties East Football League Premier Division for the 2012–13 season.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.Recent historyIn 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.
