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Today’s
visitors
Liskeard
clubhouse at the far end of the same
touchline was added around the same
time.
HISTORY
Liskeard Athletic FC was formed in 1946
after World War 2, and Lux Park has
always been their home.
The main stand at the St. Cleer Road end
of the opposite touchline, has a modest
number of saddle-type seats fixed to the
wooden steps.
The ground and surrounding area
however, has a much older history. Until
1912, when the ground went up for
auction, both the cricket club and
football club of the time enjoyed tenancy
for a nominal rent of just a shilling a year.
The owner, Viscount Clifton, agreed to
sell for £300 providing the ground was
used for sports.
Liskeard joined the SW League in 1966
and were twice winners and twice
runners-up in a four year period in the
mid to late 1970s. Having won the
league in 1978/79 they joined Division
One of the Western League, and won
promotion by finishing third at the first
attempt.
In the spring of 1922 a field adjoining the
cricket ground was purchased for £500
and the first game was played on 9
September, 1922, against Woodland Villa.
They were twice runners-up, and
champions in 1987/88. However, like
Falmouth Town were forced to return to
the SW League in 1995 after 16 seasons,
due to the increased travelling costs.
Unfortunately the club folded in 1935
with heavy debts, and the local rugby
club took up residence until the new
football club was formed after the war,
with Moorswater FC playing at Lux Park
for one year in the interim.
The club was a founding member of the
South West Peninsula League in 2007.
In June 2012 before the 2012–13 season,
the club were refused entry by the FA
into any national FA competitions
because they do not have toilet facilities
in the home and away dressing room,
and in the referee’s room.
Dressing rooms were built at the St. Cleer
Road end of the ground in 1961 but fell
victim to a road