Lancashire Football Association

The Lancashire Football Association was formed on Sunday 28th September 1878, from a meeting at the Volunteer Inn, Bromley Cross. In attendance at the meeting were T. Hindle of Darwen, W.T. Dixon, secretary of Turton FC, and John Lewis, a referee and a prominent figure in the founding of Blackburn Rovers. The modus operandi was discussed, and arrangements made for a representative meeting of clubs to be held. As events proved, Lancashire FA became a great factor and influence in football, not merely in arranging matches, and fostering Association Football, but in guiding and leading the clubs of England when the titanic struggle of professionalism was fought and won. Lancashire FA runs a number of different county cup competitions catering for the various levels of football played throughout the county, which is based on the historic county boundaries of Lancashire, before the 1974 county boundary re-organisation, rather than the current administrative county boundaries. This m...