The Coral Non-League Team of the Season

Those are results you can’t argue with. It’s not easy to start a team from scratch and find yourself filling the trophy case the same season. Just look at the teams up and down these leagues with years of experience who crash down the rankings due to a sudden change in management.

While they’re not the only ones, we think it’s a big plus that COLFC are supporter owned and have been from the off. With no big money to back them up bar scraping out their own wallets and pockets, their achievement has that extra shine. That’s not to mention that the club will ensure it moves forward with a fan-first approach, something many football lovers will appreciate these days.

It’s clearly an important issue for Paul as well. He told us that the “club is here to benefit the people of Liverpool and although anybody is welcome to support the club, they have to realise that it is here to serve the people of the city.” Being supporter-owned goes hand-in-hand with that.

It’s obviously something that’s worked. COLFC have the best supported team not just in their division, but in the entire Hallmark Security League. Their average attendance of 465 puts them above teams well above their league, making them the 80^th best supported team in the National League system. They’ve even got a group of supporters who live abroad called the Brigade Internacional.

COLFC has also been making a lot of effort off the pitch. Their community work has been pretty astounding. “There are too many individual examples to list them all,” Paul tells us, “but we have a foodbank collection at every home game, have supported countless charities with access and bucket collections, and we sponsor the COLFC Edge Hill JFL, which is home to around 300 kids.”

So to sum up: an incredible first season performance, supporter-owned, and a genuine dedication to the local community. There’s no way they couldn’t be our Non-League Team of the Season.

Congratulations COLFC!

We can’t wait to see what the rest of this season and the next one holds for you. In the meantime, we’ll be donating £500 to your chosen charity: Down Syndrome Liverpool.

You can find out more about the club at their website here or by following them on Twitter.

For any Press Enquiries, please contact John Hill, Coral PR Manager, on +447889645520