The Cheshire County League was formed on 23rd April, 1919 at a meeting at the Moseleys Hotel, Manchester. It was fitting that the competition should have been born in a city more associated with Lancashire than the County of Chester, as, before the Great War, many of Cheshire’s leading football clubs had plied their trade in leagues based in the more northerly county, such as the Lancashire League, the Lancashire Combination and the Manchester League. Two of these competitions had folded before World War I, as had another league in which Cheshire sides had played – The Combination.

Thirteen clubs committed to the new league, though, in October 1919, the expulsion from the Football League of Leeds City had the knock-on effect of Central League side Port Vale replacing the West Yorkshire club in the 2nd Division, Tranmere Rovers’ first team moving from the Lancashire Combination to take Vale’s place, and the Prenton Park’s reserve side leaving the Cheshire League, after playing 8 matches, to take over the first team’s fixtures. A ‘principal’ competition was played, followed by a subsidiary competition where the clubs competed in two sections of six. The outcomes are shown below.

RESULTS

Match Date	Opponents	F-A	GOAL	SCORERS
6-Sep-1919	Mossley	1-4	CURLEY
13-Sep-1919	CHESTER	4-3	HOWARD -2	WALKER	JONES -p
27-Sep-1919	WREXHAM (FAC Pr.)	2-2	HOWARD	DUNN
1-Oct-1919	Wrexham (FAC Pr. Rep.) aet	2-3	HOWARD	DUNN
4-Oct-1919	Northwich Victoria	0-0
11-Oct-1919	CREWE ALEXANDRA RESERVES	1-1	BIRDS
18-Oct-1919	Chester	1-5	BIRDS
25-Oct-1919	WINSFORD UNITED	1-0	ROE
1-Nov-1919	Winsford United	0-1
8-Nov-1919	CRICHTON'S ATHLETIC	4-2	BEST -2	CURLEY	WALKER
15-Nov-1919	Monks Hall	4-1	BEST -2	CURLEY	HOWARD
22-Nov-1919	RUNCORN	2-1	HOWARD -2
29-Nov-1919	Nantwich Town	2-1	BEST -2
6-Dec-1919	WINSFORD UTD (Sub. Comp.)	1-1	BEST
13-Dec-1919	Runcorn	0-3
20-Dec-1919	MOSSLEY	4-1	BEST -3	GREEN
25-Dec-1919	NORTHWICH VICTORIA	1-1	BEST
26-Dec-1919	Macclesfield	0-1
1-Jan-1920	Altrincham	3-4	WALKER	HOWARD	BEST
3-Jan-1920	Runcorn (CSC 1)	1-5	HOWARD
10-Jan-1920	Crichton's Athletic	0-4
17-Jan-1920	MONKS HALL	4-2	BEST -2	WALKER	HOWARD
31-Jan-1920	ALTRINCHAM	1-0	HOWARD
7-Feb-1920	MOSSLEY (Sub. Comp.)	1-0	BUCKLEY
14-Feb-1920	NORTHWICH VICTORIA (Sub. Comp.)	1-2	HEWITT
21-Feb-1920	Crewe Alexandra Reserves	1-2	BEST
28-Feb-1920	MACCLESFIELD	6-0	HOWARD -4	HEWITT -2
6-Mar-1920	Altrincham (Altrincham SC)	3-4	BEST -3 (1p)
20-Mar-1920	Mossley (Sub. Comp.)	2-4	BEST	HEWITT
29-Mar-1920	Altrincham (Sub. Comp.)	2-3	MASSEY	WOODHOUSE
2-Apr-1920	Northwich Victoria (Sub. Comp.)	0-2
3-Apr-1920	ALTRINCHAM (Sub. Comp.)	0-0
5-Apr-1920	MACCLESFIELD (Sub. Comp.)	6-0	BEST -4	WOODHOUSE -2
17-Apr-1920	NANTWICH TOWN	1-1	LEYLAND
21-Apr-1920	MANCHESTER CITY (Friendly)	4-3	SHAW -2	BEST	WOODHOUSE
24-Apr-1920	Macclesfield (Sub. Comp.)	0-3
26-Apr-1920	Winsford United (Sub. Comp.)	1-0	WOODHOUSE

CHESHIRE COUNTY LEAGUE TABLE

Position	Team	Played	Won	Drawn	Lost	Goals For	Goals Against	Goal Average	Points
1	Runcorn	22	17	2	3	57	19	3.00	36
2	Mossley	22	11	3	8	41	43	0.95	25
3	WITTON ALBION	22	10	4	8	41	38	1.08	24
4	Crewe Alexandra Res	22	10	3	9	45	45	1.00	23
5	Crichton's Athletic	22	9	4	9	48	38	1.26	22
6	Chester	22	9	4	9	55	55	1.00	22
7	Winsford United	22	10	1	11	45	34	1.32	21
8	Altrincham	22	7	6	9	38	47	0.81	20
9	Macclesfield	22	8	4	10	36	54	0.67	20
10	Monk's Hall	22	8	2	12	47	54	0.87	18
11	Nantwich	22	8	2	12	39	54	0.72	18
12	Northwich Victoria	22	5	5	12	33	44	0.75	15

Subsidiary Competition Section "A"

Position	Team	Played	Won	Drawn	Lost	Goals For	Goals Against	Goal Average	Points
1	Mossley	10	6	2	2	24	14	1.71	14
2	Altrincham	10	3	5	2	15	13	1.15	11
3	Northwich Victoria	10	3	5	2	14	13	1.08	11
4	WITTON ALBION	10	3	2	5	15	15	1.00	8
5	Winsford United	10	2	4	4	15	16	0.94	8
6	Macclesfield	10	2	4	4	11	23	0.48	8

Subsidiary Competition Section "B"

Position	Team	Played	Won	Drawn	Lost	Goals For	Goals Against	Goal Average	Points
1	Crewe Alexandra Res	10	7	1	2	33	13	2.54	15
2	Runcorn	10	5	4	1	20	15	1.33	14
3	Monk's Hall	10	5	1	4	26	19	1.37	11
4	Crichton's Athletic	10	5	0	5	15	21	0.71	10
5	Chester	10	2	1	7	23	37	0.62	5
6	Nantwich	10	2	1	7	14	26	0.54	5

The top sides in the two sections played off, home and away, to decide the winners of the competition. Crewe Alexandra Reserves defeated Mossley 5-2 on aggregate.