The I Zingari League was an amateur association football competition based in Liverpool

Liverpool

Liverpool is a city and metropolitan borough of Merseyside, England, along the eastern side of the Mersey Estuary. It was founded as a borough in 1207 and was granted city status in 1880...

, England

England

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 which existed from 1895 .

Its name means 'the gypsies' in dialecticised Italian, and I Zingari

I Zingari

I Zingari are English and Australian amateur cricket clubs.-History:...

 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 league ran until 2006, when it merged with the Liverpool County Combination

Liverpool County Football Combination

The Liverpool County Football Combination was a football league based in Merseyside, England. It was founded in 1908 and had its first season in 1909-10...

 to form the new Liverpool County Premier League

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....

. It was at one time a feeder to the North West Counties League.

Notable local non-league clubs Marine

Marine F.C.

Marine Football Club is an English football club in Crosby, Merseyside. The club, which was founded in 1894, is a member of both the Liverpool County and Lancashire County Football Associations, and currently plays in the Northern Premier League Premier Division.Marine is notable for having the...

 and Formby

Formby F.C.

Formby F.C. are an English football club based in Formby, Merseyside. They currently play in the North West Counties Football League Division One and are members of the Liverpool County Football Association...

 competed in this league in the past. A representative fixture against the Lancashire Amateur League

Lancashire Amateur League

The Lancashire Amateur Football League is an English association football league founded in 1899. Currently the league consists of eight divisions - Premier, One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Six and Seven...

was played annually between 1919 and the league's discontinuation.

Member clubs

The final season's Premier Division featured 14 teams. The final champions were Old Xaverians.

Alsop OB

BRNESC

Collegiate OB

East Villa

Hill Athletic

Liverpool NALGO

Mackets

NELTC

Old Xaverians

Quarry Bank OB

Red Rum

Roma

Turpins Devonshire

Warbreck

I Zingari Combination

The I Zingari Combination was originally the league for the reserve teams of I Zingari League clubs. Despite the discontinuation of the League, the Combination continues to run, now featuring the reserve teams of clubs in the Liverpool County Premier League (as well as the first team of one club, Mexoc). The Combination has run since 1904.