[4] The club joined the Lancashire Combination in its first year finishing seventh in the twenty team competition.

After Wigan Borough had to resign from the Football League in October 1931, Central applied to take their place.

The Manchester clubs, in particular United, received significantly bad media coverage as a result and this act damaged their image and support further.

[6] At the end of the season Central resigned from the Cheshire County League, realising their ambitions would be unfulfilled.

before becoming Manchester United in 1902, but there is no evidence to suggest this – all comments come from later histories, while detailed records and media reports from the period make no reference to this idea.

This first Manchester Central played at Alexandra Park and ceased to exist around the turn of the century.