Bootle Athletic Football Club was an

association football Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...

club from

Bootle Bootle (pronounced ) is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton, Merseyside, England, which had a population of 51,394 in 2011; the wider Bootle (UK Parliament constituency), Parliamentary constituency had a population of 98,449. Histo ...

Lancashire Lancashire ( , ; abbreviated Lancs) is the name of a historic county, ceremonial county, and non-metropolitan county in North West England. The boundaries of these three areas differ significantly. The non-metropolitan county of Lancashi ...

, England. Formed in 1948 they competed in the Lancashire Combination, winning the Second Division and from then on competing in the First Division, until their demise in 1953, when they resigned from the league and folded.Bootle's entry in the Football Club History Database
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Hawthorne Road Hawthorne Road was a cricket and association football, football ground in Bootle in England. It was the home ground of Bootle F.C. (1879), Bootle F.C. between 1884 and 1893. History Hawthorne Road was originally a cricket ground, but began to ...

, previously the home of the professional

, briefly members of

the Football League The English Football League (EFL) is a league of professional football clubs from England and Wales. Founded in 1888 as the Football League, the league is the oldest such competition in the world. It was the top-level football league in Engla ...

from 1892 to 1893. They moved to Bootle Stadium in 1950 until their demise in 1953.

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{{reflist Defunct football clubs in England Defunct football clubs in Lancashire Defunct football clubs in Merseyside Association football clubs established in 1948 Association football clubs disestablished in 1953 Lancashire Combination 1948 establishments in England 1953 disestablishments in England Sport in the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton