The Claremont
January 1, 2001
Liverpool, United Kingdom
Season 1 - 1 Teams across 1 Divisions
The I Zingari Amateur Football League was an amateur association football competition based in Liverpool, England. It was founded in 1895 and ran until 2006, when it merged with the Liverpool County Combination to form the new Liverpool County Premier League.
The league's name means "the gypsies" in dialecticised Italian, and I Zingari was the name of an English amateur cricket club formed in 1845, and an Australian one formed 40 years later. The Liverpool football league's name invokes their spirit of amateur competition.
The I Zingari League was founded in 1895 by a group of amateur footballers who wanted to create a competitive league for players who were not able to commit to full-time professional football. The league initially had just three teams, but it quickly grew in popularity and by the 1920s it had over 20 teams competing in it.
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