Bootle Athletic Football Club was an association football club from Bootle

Bootle

Bootle is a town within the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton in Merseyside, England, and a 'Post town' in the L postcode area. Formally known as Bootle-cum-Linacre, the town is 4 miles  to the north of Liverpool city centre, and has a total resident population of 77,640.Historically part of...

, Lancashire

Lancashire

Lancashire is a non-metropolitan county of historic origin in the North West of England. It takes its name from the city of Lancaster, and is sometimes known as the County of Lancaster. Although Lancaster is still considered to be the county town, Lancashire County Council is based in Preston...

. Formed in 1948 they competed in the Lancashire Combination

Lancashire Combination

The Lancashire Combination was a football league founded in the North West of England in 1891–92. It absorbed the Lancashire League in 1903. In 1968 the Combination lost five of its clubs to the newly formed Northern Premier League...

, winning the Second Division and from then on competing in the First Division, until their demise in 1953, when they resigned from the league and folded.

They played their games at Hawthorne Road

Hawthorne Road

Hawthorne Road was a stadium in Bootle, England. It was used predominantly for football. It was constructed in the late nineteenth century as the home of Bootle FC founded in 1890....

 previously the home of the professional Bootle

Bootle F.C. (1879)

Bootle F.C. was an English football club based in Bootle, Lancashire. Founder members of the Football Alliance, the club was the first ever to resign from the Football League.-History:...

, briefly members of the Football League

The Football League

The Football League, also known as the npower Football League for sponsorship reasons, is a league competition featuring professional association football clubs from England and Wales. Founded in 1888, it is the oldest such competition in world football...

 from 1892 to 1893.