As we enter 2026, the L&C’s oldest member club South Manchester are looking to complete their ninety-eighth season, only one short of Aldermere’s record of ninety-nine, and are also now fast approaching one thousand league fixtures played.   Formed in 1914, South didn’t actually start playing until in 1921 due to the Great War and joined the L&C a year later and played on a number of grounds around Withington before becoming a fixture at Christie Playing Fields in 1934 until

South Manchester FC were proud winners of the Lancashire and Cheshire AFL’s Fair Play  Trophy for the 2024-25 season and it was presented...