Lichfield City Football Club is a
football
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club based in
Lichfield
Lichfield () is a city status in the United Kingdom, cathedral city and Civil parishes in England, civil parish in Staffordshire, England. Lichfield is situated south-east of the county town of Stafford, north-east of Walsall, north-west of ...
,
Staffordshire
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, England. They are members of the and play at the City Ground.
History
The original Lichfield City joined the
Birmingham Combination in 1923, but left after two seasons. The modern club was established in 1970 as Lichfield Football Club and joined Division One B of the
West Midlands (Regional) League
The West Midlands (Regional) League is an English association football competition for semi-professional and amateur teams based in the West Midlands county, Shropshire, Worcestershire, southern Staffordshire and northern Herefordshire. It has tw ...
in 1976.
They were placed in Division One the following season when the league was reorganised and remained in the division until being relegated to Division Two at the end of the
1985–86 season. The club were Division Two runners-up in
1989–90, earning promotion back to Division One.
[ In 1994 they were renamed Lichfield City.][ Their first season under the new name saw the club finish as runners-up in Division One, earning promotion to the Premier Division.][
Despite finishing in mid-table in their first season in the Premier Division, Lichfield resigned from the league and became a Sunday league team.][
In 2014 the Midland Combination merged with the Midland Alliance to form the ]Midland League
The Midland Football League, officially known as the Capelli Sport Midland Football League since January 2025 for sponsorship reasons, is an English football league that was founded in 2014 by the merger of the former Midland Alliance and Midl ...
, with Lichfield placed in Division One.[ In 2021 the club were promoted to the Premier Division based on their results in the abandoned 2019–20 and 2020–21 seasons. They won the JW Hunt Cup in 2022–23, defeating OJM 3–0 in the final. They retained the cup the following season, beating Wolverhampton Sporting 3–1 in the final. The club were also runners-up in the Midland League Premier Division, qualifying for the promotion play-offs. After beating Highgate United 3–1 in the semi-finals, they lost 3–1 to Darlaston Town (1874) in the final.
The 2024–25 season saw the club crowned Midland League Premier Division champions, winning promotion to step four for the first time in the club's history.][ ]
Honours
*Midland League
**Premier Division champions 2024–25
*Midland Combination
**Challenge Vase winners 2010–11
*JW Hunt Cup
**Winners 2022–23, 2023–24
Records
*Best FA Cup
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performance: Second qualifying round, 2022–23[
*Best ]FA Vase
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performance: Fourth round, 2023–24[
*Record attendance: 1,110 vs Darlaston Town (1874), Midland League Premier Division play-off final, 4 May 2024]
See also
* Lichfield City F.C. players
* Lichfield City F.C. managers
References
External links
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Football clubs in England
Football clubs in Staffordshire
1970 establishments in England
Association football clubs established in 1970
Lichfield
Birmingham Combination
West Midlands (Regional) League
Midland Football Combination
Midland Football League