37 Facts About Tranmere Rovers

Tranmere Rovers Football Club is a professional association football club based in Birkenhead, Merseyside, England.

Tranmere Rovers played in regional leagues until they were invited to become a founder member of Football League Third Division North in 1921.

Under King's successor, John Aldridge, Tranmere Rovers experienced a number of cup runs, most notably reaching the 2000 League Cup final.

Tranmere Rovers spent three seasons in the National League and then returned to the third tier of the Football League via successive play-off campaigns in 2018 and 2019.

Tranmere Rovers is historically a large village that was subsumed within the later expansion of the town of Birkenhead.

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Tranmere Rovers played their first matches at Steeles Field in Birkenhead.

Tranmere Rovers first wore a kit of blue shirts, white shorts and blue socks.

In 1886, Tranmere Rovers entered their first competition: the Liverpool and District Challenge Cup; in 1889, they entered the West Lancashire League.

Tranmere Rovers won the Lancashire Combination Championship in 1914 and Stan Rowlands became the first Tranmere Rovers player to receive an international cap when he was selected to play for Wales.

Tranmere Rovers continued to play throughout the First World War, although their players were criticised for avoiding military service, despite being employed in the local shipyards.

Tranmere Rovers played 30 games for Rovers, scoring 27 goals, before being transferred to Everton for £3,000.

Tranmere Rovers won their first championship in the Football League in 1938 with victory in Division Three North and, hence, promotion to Division Two for the first time.

Tranmere Rovers rejoined the peacetime Football League in Division Three North and stayed there until the 1958 restructuring of the football league's lower divisions.

Tranmere Rovers certainly missed their captain, and were relegated to Division Four for the first time in 1961.

Tranmere Rovers strengthened Tranmere's connections with local rivals Liverpool by recruiting several former teammates such as Ian St John, and bringing in Bill Shankly in a consultancy role.

Tranmere Rovers went on to make more than 500 league appearances for Rovers in a 17-year period.

Tranmere Rovers remained with the club on the coaching staff before leaving in October 2000 to pursue business interests.

Tranmere Rovers were the surprise stars of the event, beating Division One Wimbledon and Newcastle United before losing on penalties to eventual winners Nottingham Forest.

Tranmere Rovers joined the club in 1985 and scored 180 goals in eleven seasons.

Tranmere Rovers is the club's record scorer, and the first inductee to their hall of fame.

Tranmere Rovers reached the play-offs in three successive seasons missing out on promotion to the newly formed Premier League through defeat to Swindon Town in 1993, Leicester City in 1994, and Reading in 1995.

However, on 25 April 2015 Tranmere Rovers were relegated from the Football League after another defeat to Plymouth Argyle in the reverse fixture, ending their 94-year stay in the leagues.

Tranmere Rovers finished sixth, one place outside the play-off zone, in Gary Brabin's first season.

Tranmere Rovers slipped to 18th in the league, their lowest ever league position.

Tranmere Rovers responded to this defeat by winning 8 out of their next 9 games, finishing the season as National League runners-up for the second time in as many years, qualifying for the play-offs.

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Tranmere Rovers announced that 20 members of staff would have to be made redundant.

Tranmere Rovers was sacked on 11 May 2021, after the side reached the play-offs but before the play-off matches had started.

Belmont FC, the forerunners of today's Tranmere Rovers, wore blue shirts and white shorts, as did the early Tranmere Rovers, until a radical change in 1889, when a combination of maroon and orange shirts and navy blue shorts was introduced to "dazzle" their opponents in the West Lancashire League.

In 1962, Dave Russell introduced a white strip with blue trim, saying "Tranmere Rovers should have a specific identity of its own, so on Merseyside there's now Liverpool's Red, Everton's blue and Tranmere's white".

Tranmere Rovers first introduced a badge on their shirt in 1962, wearing the coat of arms of the borough of Birkenhead, along with adopting their motto "Ubi fides ibi lux et robur", meaning "Where there is faith there is light and strength".

Tranmere Rovers had a fierce rivalry with Wallasey-based near neighbours New Brighton until the latter club failed to be re-elected to the Football League in 1951.

Tranmere Rovers oversaw the club's entry into the Football League and remained in charge for 23 years, the longest spell of any manager at the club.

Tranmere Rovers's introductions included the team's current all-white kit and regularly arranged floodlit home fixtures on Friday evenings rather than the usual Saturday afternoon.

Tranmere Rovers led them to a victory in the League Trophy, and from the bottom of the Fourth Division to reach the play-offs for promotion to the Premier League on three occasions.

Tranmere Rovers left the club by mutual consent on 19 April 2015, when the club were bottom of the league with two matches remaining.

Tranmere Rovers was replaced by Gary Brabin, whose contract was in turn ended in September 2016.

Tranmere Rovers's side were top of the form table in February, the team's spine spearheaded by Scott Davies, Peter Clarke, Manny Monthe, Jay Spearing, Paul Lewis and finally, James Vaughan, who is still the youngest ever Premier League goalscorer since 2005.