About the BFSFA

Back in 1961, games had to be played in Lytham St Anne’s as Blackpool Council regarded it as immoral to play football on Sundays and refused to allow their pitches to be used.

In 1976 the smaller league merged with the main League to form the Sunday Alliance. With grassroots football thriving in the 80's and 90's the league had 9 Divisions with over 120 teams and a Committee of 13. 

Following the decline in amateur Sunday leagues football over the past ten years, the league still runs just with lesser numbers, this was due to a high increase in small sided venues popping up over the Fylde in this period, providing your fix for football every night of the week.

The alliance is currently running three very competitive divisions of grassroots football along with the famous Sunrise Trophy (Former Gledhill Cup) which started way back in 1967. Additionally, each division is provided with its own divisional cup, these are a knockout competitions all of which are kindly and proundly sponsored by Berry Beds.

The league has well over 990 registered players taking part in the league and cup competitions.