About Us

Our initial days of watching LFC in New York required early starts, reliable satellite systems and reliable bar owners (no tv coverage). Having found a bar that was 1) open as advertised and 2) could acquire the satellite signal, the matchday experience usually involved loud, boorish cockneys and ten-a-penny non-manc mancs.

It was against this backdrop that the need for LFC supporters to come together was realized and at the start of the 1995/6 season, Liverpool Football Club Supporters Club, New York (LFCNY) was born. At the first meeting, in Cleary’s on Third Avenue and 33rd Street, Dave Brenner, Paul Dackombe and Sean Woods were duly elected to run the club. Daragh Kennedy took on the role of club president, in our inaugural year, a role he still maintains today.

It was important to establish ourselves in a bar that was not only welcoming of the revenue but supportive of our goals to provide access to the match and to other Liverpool supporters. We wandered in the desert for a few years until we reached the Promised Land – 11th St Bar. The formative years also saw the production of a literally hand produced fanzine “25th of May” (our homage to The Glory That Was Rome 1977, and in Sean’s opinion, LFC’s greatest moment; it was also a match attended by Dave, Paul and Sean long before they ever met in New York).

The other staple of club membership, or hook, was a free LFCNY t-shirt when you signed up. These shirts became sought after items around the globe. In Baltimore for the pre-season against Spurs this summer, we bumped into a lady from Connecticut wearing the iconic Brenner-Burge-Deakin white-on-red NY skyline design from over 10 years ago. The banner was another milestone in the club’s identity and it has been proudly displayed throughout North America and Europe.

The club has admirably moved with the times – online, social media, podcasts, merchandise, etc. Many, many dedicated reds have donated time, effort and money to keep it going. You are all sons and daughters of Shankly. We are continually moved by the ecstatic highs and tragic lows that are inextricably woven into the fabric of the great Liverpool Football Club; we have raised funds for the Hillsborough Justice Campaign and the Hillsborough to Anfield Run, participated in the overthrow of Hicks and Gillett as well as Steve Cohen and built strong relationships with Reclaim The Kop (John Mackin) and Spirit of Shankly (the late Paul Rice). We have also become very involved in the community and have led many food and coat drives, and raised money for a local soccer club, Downtown United Soccer Club, which provides youngsters in New York’s poorer neighborhoods, an opportunity to play football at no expense to them or their families.

We urge everyone to ensure our tradition of support and activism continues.

Join Us

As a LFCNY member you will be joining the oldest and largest North American Liverpool Supporters Club. Our home is the 11th Street bar, which has been our home since 2003. The 11th Street Bar is open for every match, and Liverpool matches are always given priority over any other events.

Current LFCNY memberships run from July 1st 2012 to June 30th 2013. As a member, you will receive:

• An LFCNY branded club t-shirt;
• Weekly emails;
• Immediate notification of publication of new episode of our podcast, MP Red, and the opportunity to be a panel member;
• The opportunity to request tickets for Liverpool home Premier League games;
• The opportunity to meet former Liverpool players;
• Merchandise discounts;
• Discounts for club events;
• The opportunity to participate in club events such as the LFC Supporters Club tournament to be held at Anfield in May, 2013, D.U.S.C. football tournament and the Supporters Club golf tournament

LFCNY T Shirt

11th Street Bar

The 11th Street Bar on 11th street between Avenue A & B is the long standing home of the New York Liverpool Supporters Club. This is where we hold events, have meetings and, most importantly, watch the matches together!

The bar typically opens 60-90 minutes prior to each game. Anyone can come to the bar, but if you are under 21, you must be accompanied by a parent or guardian. For big games, we would always recommend getting to the bar as early as possible to secure a place. The bigger games see the bar full whereas most of the other games would see 100 Liverpool fans gathering.

Believe it or not, the bar itself is becoming quite famous in Liverpool and is on the list of tourist attractions for visiting fans. On game days the fans tend to be exclusively Liverpool fans, though opposing fans are also very welcome. Many have even been known to get out alive! The fans are not shy about venting their opinions and the atmosphere is always friendly. The ages have ranged from 6 days (and dressed in a Liverpool shirt!) to somewhere north of 80 (we were too polite to ask) and we get an almost even split of men and women. Game days are well worth the visit, especially the big games with all the singing, chanting, and excitement associated with football, sorry… soccer, wafting out of the bar.

If you want to bring some memorabilia that’s cool, but unless it’s really spectacular, it will not go on the wall due to space limitations. However we do raffle off all memorabilia for charity and club funds about twice a year.

Parking around the 11th Street Bar is attainable, particularly if you arrive early. The Avenues (A,B,C, 1st etc.) have Mini Meters that you can park at for up to an hour for 50 cents for every ten minutes. There is no charge for parking on Sunday’s. There is free parking on the numbered streets (10th, 11th, 12th etc.) but spaces usually are limited. If all else fails, there is a parking lot on 11th Street between Avenue A and B that usually charges about $20 to park for the duration of a game.

To get to the bar by subway, you can take the A,C,E,1,2,3,F,M,N,Q,R,4,5,6 to their respective 14th Street stations and transfer to the L subway going east towards Brooklyn. Get off at 1st avenue (at 14th Street), walk three blocks south to 11th Street and go east (left) one block to Avenue A. The bar is located at 510 East 11th street.

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And they have a Facebook Page!

TV Schedule

Hit CTRL+D or CMD+D to bookmark this page. All the upcoming LFC fixtures will be listed here and channel information added when it is known. Matches that will be screened at 11th Street are listed in black.

The schedule is subject to change, so check back often!

Charity Auction and Raffle – 5th May 2013

After the Everton game on Sunday, May 5th, LFCNY will be holding an event in the 11th Street Bar to raise money for local charities.  We will be auctioning off a Luis Suarez shirt, signed by the first team.  The shirt was kindly donated by an LFC fan who visited the 11th Street, and will be auctioned to raise money for a local soup kitchen, which seems appropriate…

We will also be raffling other items of memorabilia, so there are plenty of opportunities to take home some goodies.  Funds will be donated to Hurriane Sandy relief efforts.  It’s Cinco de Mayo, it’s the derby, and it’s all in a good cause.

Kick off is 8.30am EST, but we encourage people to arrive in good time, as we’re expecting a good turnout.

LFC Supporters Club Tournament

LFCNY have been invited to participate in the 1st ever International Supporters Club tournament to take place at Anfield, on May 28th, 2013

The event is being split into 3 sessions with 12 Branches attending each of the 3 sessions with a maximum of 8 players per Branch. Each session will last between 2.5 – 3 hours and will start with the teams walking out the tunnel to ‘You’ll never walk alone’ before taking part in a warm up then tackling some skills training and lastly moving on to battle it out against some of the other Supporters Club Teams.

If you are interested in playing, please email me as soon as possible as we need to enter our final team by March 22nd. 20 spectators will be allowed to participate for each team also, so if you are interested in traveling as a spectator, please email me to let us know.

We will be participating in session 3 which will start at 5:30pm.

LFCNY Golf Tournament

LFCNY have joined forces with the Liverpool FC Foundation and the Official LFC Supporters Club Costa Blanca to organise the 1^st Official Liverpool FC Supporters Clubs Golf Cup Tournament.

The Tournament is in aid of the Liverpool FC Foundation & will also support

- 23 Foundation

- Steven Gerrard Foundation

- “Reach Out” – Torrevieja for the homeless

The tournament will take place the 23rd – 27th May, 2013 and will be held at the exclusive La Finca Golf Resort in Alicante Spain.

LFC has invited all Supporters Clubs to send teams of 4 players to take part and do battle to find a champion golfer.

If you are interested, please email our club president, Daragh Kennedy as soon as possible. A deposit of £40 per person secures your place. Final balance is due by the 28^th March 2013.

You do not need to be a part of a team to join in; single players are welcome and will be paired with a team upon arrival.

Non golfers can come along and watch or take advantage of the 5* La Finca Resort Spa facilities – Non Golfer prices from £305pp.

Players will be staying at the 5* La Finca Golf & Spa Resort Hotel and the price of £395pp includes:

- 4 Nights accommodation

- Full Board

- 3 rounds of golf (one practice round and two competition rounds)

- Use of Golf Buggies

- Gala Dinner with an LFC Legend

- Charity Auction with exclusive prizes

- £40pp deposit – final balance due by the 28^th March 2013

- Non golfers prices from £305pp

Please note the price does not include flights or transfers to the hotel

Itinerary:

Day 1 – Arrival at La Finca

Day 2 – Practice Day

Day 3 – 4 Ball Competition

Day 4 – 4 Ball competition Final, Gala Dinner to be attended by LFC Legend & Charity Auction

Day 5 – Leave La Finca

There will also be the chance to win exclusive prizes during the charity auction including:

- 2 Night Stay at the La Finca Golf & Spa Resort

- Golf clothing for 2 from Patrimi

- Signed LFC Shirt

- Signed LFC Ball

- Plus much more

Tickets

LFCNY as an official branch of Liverpool Football Club, is eligible to request tickets to home Premier League games each season. In previous seasons, we were able to request tickets to all 19 home Premier League games, but for this season, we were only able to request tickets to four games. Those four fixtures were Arsenal, Fulham, Sunderland and Swansea. Tickets to these fixtures have already been allocated.

We cannot accept requests for any other 2012/13 fixture at this time.

The process to request tickets for the 2013/14 season is expected to commence in June or July, 2013. For any members who may be interested in purchasing tickets for next season, please follow the steps outline below prior to June 2013.

1) You must be a signed up LFCNY members to request tickets. Membership ranges from $25 to $35 for the season, and includes a LFCNY t-shirt. Click here to join.

2) You must be a member of Liverpool Football Club’s membership program. For more information, please access their site at: http://www.liverpoolfc.com/membership. You must possess an Official Adult, Membership Light or Junior Membership to request tickets through LFCNY. The International membership has no ticketing benefits. When renewing or purchasing your LFC membership, please select our branch, New York, from the drop down menu on the Membership registration page. You will be given a membership number instantaneously;

3) Once you have joined LFCNY, complete your ticket request online on this page. There is a limit of four tickets per request. All ticket requests and all ticket payments must be made online through www.lfcny.org. An LFC membership number must accompany each ticket request. If you are requesting 4 tickets, you must submit four LFC membership numbers;

4) LFCNY will submit the request to LFC who will advise us if our application has been successful. Once our ticket allocation is confirmed by LFC, we will communicate via our website and/or club email to advise which applications were successful.

5) If your application is successful, payment must be made via paypal, directly from our website at that time. No cash, checks or other payment methods can be accepted;

6) In the event we receive more requests than the tickets we are allocated, a drawing will be held to allocate the tickets equitably;

7) Members who are to be allocated tickets will be emailed with details of their seat number by LFCNY approximately 2-4 weeks prior to the fixture. The Membership Card of those Members who have been allocated tickets will be activated for entry at Anfield, once LFCNY submits payment to Liverpool Football Club. There will be no paper ticket issued.

For any questions, or further clarification, please email our club president, Daragh Kennedy at president@lfcny.org

Contact Us

Daragh Kennedy, President - president@lfcny.org

Contact Daragh with anything to do with the club emails, LFC tickets, any related LFC issue, other supporters clubs or link exchanges.

Nathan Smith, Vice-President - Nathan@lfcny.org

Contact Nathan regarding our club podcast, MP Red

Chris Andrade, Secretary - Secretary@lfcny.org

Contact Chris with any questions pertaining to your membership

Chris Cummings, Event Coordinator - eventcoordinator@lfcny.org

Contact Chris with any event ideas, bar events, or help with our food drives.

Hillsborough

On April 15 1989, 24,000 Liverpool fans travelled to a football match. 96 never returned. Over 20 years after Britain’s worst sporting disaster, we want the world to see the faces of the fans whose hopes and dreams for the future ended that day.

Collectively they’ve become known as ‘The 96′ but to the families and friends they left behind, they were simply a dad, a son, a brother and a sister; a cousin, an auntie, an uncle and a granddad; a boyfriend, a husband, a soul mate and a best friend.

As the wife of one of the supporters who never came home so eloquently put it in a letter published on this website on the 20th anniversary of the disaster, “To the world my husband is one of the 96, but to me and his children, he was always our number one.”              

To those who didn’t know them, the fans who died at Hillsborough that day may just be a number of names etched into the Hillsborough Memorial marble.

24,000 tickets, 23 turnstiles, two criminally overcrowded pens, 96 dead and 766 people injured – numbers alone don’t even begin to tell half the story of a disaster that has shaped Liverpool Football Club and the fans that will forever follow it.

Probably the most significant number in this whole sorry tragedy is the one that depicts the age of each victim on the slide show below.

That number, and the faces staring back at you – captured during happier times – tells you everything you need to know about why the events of April 15, 1989 and the fans who died that day will never ever be forgotten.

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