LYTHAMCRICKET

Lytham Cricket Club was founded in 1855 by Squire Clifton of Lytham Hall. In 1946 Lytham joined the Manchester & District Association having been involved in playing friendly matches for the previous 91 years. Lytham Hall estate of which the cricket ground was part, was sold by the squire to the Guardian Royal Insurance Company in 1963. In 1967 the club became a multi-sports club incorporating cricket, tennis, hockey and soccer. The club purchased the ground in the late 1980’s thus ensuring that cricket would be played at Lytham in perpetuity.

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First Class cricket came to Lytham in the early 1980’s even though benefit matches & 2nd XI County Championship matches had been held earlier. The first County Championship match was held in 1985, the visitors being Northampton CCC. Since that date regular 1st and 2nd XI county matches have been held at Lytham when the ground takes on a festival atmosphere firmly establishing Lytham as one of the favourite out grounds in Lancashire. Lytham CC left the Manchester & District Association in 1997 as champions and joined the expanding Liverpool Competition. In 1999 Lytham were promoted to the Premier Division as that season’s 1st Division champions. The Liverpool Competition was accredited as an ECB Premier League for the season 2000 thus ensuring that Lytham had achieved one of its objectives by becoming a founder member of the ECB Premier League. In 2010 Lytham CC won the League. In 2012 Lytham won the league for a second time and did so with the largest margin in the league's history.

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The Liverpool Competition ECB Premier League is considered to be one of the top 4 ECB Leagues in the country. Lytham CC are now considered to be one of the top 5 strategic clubs in Lancashire. We are also one of the top 200 clubs in the country, being Clubmark accredited in May 2003 and CCDF registered in September 2003.

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In 2003 we were also acknowledged as BBC Community Club of the Year for Fylde with Steve Perkins also being honoured as Coach of the Year for Fylde. Our junior section is the largest in the area and has the highest number of ECB qualified coaches in the vicinity. The junior teams play in the Palace Shield Junior Section. We run a Kwik Cricket section from age 7 and currently field ten junior teams in the league, three in U10 two in U11, two in U13, two in U15 and one in the U17 age-groups. Our juniors over the age of 15 also have the opportunity to play in the senior teams at their appropriate level. Many of our juniors play in the district teams.

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Lytham CC is an active member of the Fylde Borough Council Cricket Development Group and through this organisation deliver coaching to schools in the locality. We are also closely involved in the LCB Lancashire Cricket Partnership which strives to bring together the top clubs in the region in order that they may exchange ideas and gain support from the LCB.

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Club Honours – L & DCC

1st XI

ECB Premier League Knockout winners: 2002
ECB Premier League runners up: 2004
ECB Premier League Winners: 2010
ECB Premier League Winners: 2012
First Division winners: 1999

2nd XI

Chester Cup Winners : 2010                                                                       

2nd XI 1st Div Champions Winners: 2016

3rd XI

3rd XI (Sunday) First Division (North East) winners: 2013
3rd XI (Sunday) Premier League Champions : 2014
3rd XI (Sunday) Premier League runners up: 2015
Sunday First Division (East) Runners Up: 2010

4th XI

First Division runners up: 2007