Induction into the Hall of Fame is the highest honour we believe any football club can pay to its former players.
Hall of Fame Induction Criteria
Criteria for Induction into the Southport FC FPA Hall of Fame
- Inductees will have made an outstanding contribution to the development, and/or success, and/or history of the football club and/or its community.
- Inductees will have made that contribution as a player, manager, coach, official, employee, director, supporter or volunteer.
Inductees each year will be determined by a selection panel chosen by the Former Players Association committee. It will include representatives of supporter groups, historians, statisticians and club officials.
Class of 2019
On Saturday 16th November 2019, 100 people packed into the 1881 Lounge for the inaugural Southport FC Hall of Fame induction ceremony.
Inductees
- Joe Patrick – 127 Appearances, 85 Goals
- Eddie Mosscrop – 43 Appearances, 12 goals
- Arthur Peat – 434 Appearances, 27 Goals
- Trevor Hitchen – 266 Appearances, 37 Goals
- Alan Spence – 254 Appearances, 108 Goals
- Alex Russell – 376 Appearances, 82 Goals
- Gary Cooper – 155 Appearances, 57 Goals
- David Gamble – 362 Appearances, 74 Goals
- Earl Davis – 242 Appearances, 10 Goals
- Eric Redrobe 210 Appearances, 62 Goals
Statistics include the following competitions
FA Cup , FA Trophy , Football League Cup, League, PLAY OFFS.
Class of 2021
The 2021 Hall of Fame induction ceremony, supported by Barron Financial Solutions, will take place on Saturday 13th November 2021.
- Steve Dickinson – Supporters Player of the year 2001/02 & 2005/06, Players Player of the year 2001/02
- Jimmy Fay – Southport’s first Football League captain, and founding member and secretary of the Professional Players Union (now the PFA!)
- Kevin Mooney – Captain of the 1992/93 Title winning squad, Supporters and Players Player of the Year 1992/93.
- Kevin Lee – Title winner 2009/10 – Supporters Player of the year 2007/08
- Billy Semple – Over 50 years service to the club as first a player, and later trainer.
- Paul Evans – Supporters Player of the Year 1982/83 & 1985/86, Players Player of the year 1987/88
- Archie Waterston – Pre-war goalscoring legend and scorer of the most football league goals in a single season
- Reg Blore – 60s goalscorer that became the first Southport player to gain Under-23 honours.
- George Bromilow – represented Great Britain in the 1956 Olympic games in Melbourne and capped by the full England amateur side.
- Colin Alty – Southport’s most versatile performer, our first ever Supporter’s Player of the Year in 1967, FA Cup giantkiller and key member of the promotion squad of 66/67 with well over 200 appearances.