The Liverpool County Football Combination was a
football
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league based in
Merseyside
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,
England
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. It was founded in 1908 and had its first season in 1909–10. A second division was quickly formed, and the league ran with two divisions for the majority of its existence.
The league had a knockout competition, the George Mahon Cup, for the entire duration of its existence.
The league's last season was 2005–06, when the league champions were Speke. At the conclusion of the 2005–06 season, the league merged with the
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 ...
to form a new competition – the
Liverpool County Premier League
The Liverpool County Premier League is a football competition based in Merseyside, England. It was founded in 2006 as a merger of the Liverpool County Football Combination and the I Zingari League.
The league has three divisions, the Premier D ...
, which took the County Combination's former place at step 7 (or level 11) of the
English football league system
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and as a feeder to the
North West Counties Football League First Division. The George Mahon Cup is still contested by teams in the new league.
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Sports competitions in Liverpool
Defunct football leagues in England
1908 establishments in England
Football in Merseyside