[2] The highest level at which the club has this far competed is the Conference National, between 2000 and 2005; it reached the FA Cup first round proper on five separate occasions between 1928 and 2004.

[4] RMI was one of two football clubs founded at the workshops of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway; it was started at the locomotive works in Horwich.

[7] Manager Les Rigby led RMI to the final of the GMAC Cup in 1988 against Weymouth, which was played on the sloping pitch of Grundy Hill.

As part of this deal, a new company, Grundy Hill Estates, was formed to take over the ownership of the shared ground.

[10] Once the move had been finalised and agreements had been made to share the 10,000 capacity stadium, the club officially changed their name to Leigh RMI to reflect their new surroundings.

[5] In 2000, five years after this move, Leigh RMI reached the top tier of the Conference, the highest level of non-league football in England.

Leigh RMI's reprieve only lasted one season, however, as they were relegated after finishing bottom of the Conference table in 2004–05 with only 18 points from 42 games.

[15] Leigh RMI's ownership had previously offered to merge with FCUM prior to this friendly in 2005, but the clubs decided against such a merger.

[4] On 23 March 2009 the club appointed former Blackburn player Garry Flitcroft as its new manager, as well as announcing that the team would be playing at the Leigh Sports Village with immediate effect.

After finishing in sixth position, one place outside of the promotion play-offs, in the Northern Premier League Division One North during 2009–10, manager Garry Flitcroft and several players departed the club to join local rivals Chorley.

The club left the Leigh Sports Village Stadium and entered into a groundshare agreement at Crilly Park with North West Counties Premier Division neighbours Atherton Laburnum Rovers for the 2010–11 season.

Horwich's traumatic move to Leigh involved a far greater leap than a mere six-mile journey south west.

The first came in the 1998–99 season when RMI defeated Winsford, Worksop, and Droylsden, the last two by the same scoreline, 2–1, to meet Fulham, then in Division Two, at Craven Cottage.

[5] Leigh achieved a 1–1 draw against Fulham in the club's first FA Cup first round appearance in 16 years, and received attention of the British media.

"[25] The RMI-Fulham replay at Hilton Park, which was televised and shown live on Sky Sports,[26] ended with Leigh losing 0–2.

[27] On police advice, the venue for this match was switched from Hilton Park to The New Den in Bermondsey, Millwall's home ground.