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There will be two trophies coming to Anfield this May after Lower Breck beat Padiham 2-0 in North West Counties play-off final.

They finished their 46-game campaign with a whopping 106 points, only to be beaten to the title by former Football League side Bury on the final day.

The club, who will play in the eighth tier as a result of Saturday’s promotion via the play-offs, are sandwiched between two Premier League giants.

Lower Breck players and coaching staff celebrate after earning promotion following their 2-0 play-off win over Padiham

Stanley Park separates Everton and Liverpool but down Priory Road and onto Lower Breck Road, playing on an artificial pitch attached to Anfield Sports and Community Centre, is Lower Breck, who were only founded 15 years ago.

Now, they are within four promotions of the Football League after the club was initially created after the league for the under-16s was being disbanded.

During that time, there have been quadruple wins, captained by now-Port Vale star Ben Garrity, as well as promotion into the North West Counties and now silverware in the Premier Division.

Moments before kick-off, the Goodison Park siren could be heard before the penultimate home game at the famous stadium, as well as the roars after the Blues netted twice against Ipswich Town.

But any noise down the road from the Toffees was drowned out by the Breck, when a cagey encounter soon became a party.

One Kiss has become the soundtrack of Liverpool’s success but Dua Lipa reverberated around the sports centre as goalkeeper Theo Roberts paraded the trophy to the supporters in the bar.

Going into the play-off campaign, they had already become record-breakers for their points return - aided by just one defeat since the end of October - but due to one team earning automatic promotion out of the division, Breck faced a genuine threat of amassing 106 points in the league and not going up.

Triumphs over West Didsbury & Chorlton and Padiham mean they keep their record-breaking points tally, the runner-up trophy and have now become the second name on the play-off trophy.



Lower Breck players celebrate after Elliot Hughes made it 2-0 in stoppage time vs Padiham in the play-off final

Hughes was in acres of the space in the seventh minute of second-half stoppage time with Lewis Buckley marauding forward on the counter-attack.

The frontmen combined and the winger feinted to shoot, leaving the goalkeeper and defender on the ground before, slotting into the empty net.

It rounded off the perfect afternoon for the Breck, whose task was made easier early in the second-half when Padiham captain Daniel Morton was shown a straight red card for denying a goalscoring opportunity with Tom Croughan one-on-one with Matthew Hamnett.

Up-stepped Dowling, firing low into the bottom corner to break the deadlock.

It was a cagey opening exchange between the two clubs but the best chance fell to the Storks with their close-range effort superbly kept out by a reflex save from Roberts.

Breck clicked through the gears and began to take a stranglehold but couldn’t find the breakthrough until the second-half, through Dowling’s spot-kick.

They were forced to weather a late onslaught from the ten-man visitors but Lower Breck remained resilient and rubber-stamped their promotion late-on.


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