It is currently a member of the North West Counties League Premier Division; the team plays at Jericho Lane in the Otterspool area of Aigburth.

The Clubs Chairman is Gary Langley who is also a Director of the North West Counties League.

Incidentally, even farther behind South Liverpool in that election were Wigan Athletic, who garnered zero votes.

[1] In all, South Liverpool applied to join the Football League on ten occasions, always without success.

The club was more successful in the Welsh Cup, and they won it at their first attempt, in 1939, defeating Cardiff City 2–1 in the final.

"Many thousands were in the ground when we went back to Holly Park at two o'clock in the morning," Jack Roscoe said in 1989 about the aftermath of the 1939 Welsh Cup final victory.

After the war, the club remained in the Cheshire County League until 1951, when they rejoined the Lancashire Combination, going into the Second Division.

It was said that one of the remarkable things about this game was that the Nigerian team played in bare feet, although the writer of has no proof other than an anecdotal story that was told to him as a child.

South Liverpool gained promotion in 1962 and won the Lancashire Combination first division championship in 1966.

In 1967, the 40-year-old Hungarian-born football legend Ferenc Puskás guested for the club in a fundraising friendly match at Holly Park which attracted a sell-out crowd of 10,000.

[5] As one of the more successful non-League clubs in northern England, South Liverpool were invited to join the newly formed Northern Premier League in 1968. Notable players during the club's first ten years in the NPL were Jimmy Case and later John Aldridge, who both went on to achieve fame with Liverpool, Joe Hinnigan who became a stalwart at Sunderland, and Peter Houghton who moved on to Wigan Athletic and Preston North End.

At the beginning of the season, the club’s official pen-pictures described me as 'a local youngster who shows great potential with his flair for attack'.

"[6] Before the 1987–88 season South Liverpool became the first non-league team to offer a Youth Training Scheme to players.

In 2006, the site of Holly Park had been redeveloped and was opened as Liverpool South Parkway railway station.

During their time in amateur football the goalscoring record of Jack Roscoe (1935–39) was beaten by Keith Jones scoring 236 goals (1992–2006) and keeper Stephen Ward with 143 clean sheets (1995–2016) eclipsed South legend Peter Eales 74 (1966–1989).

In 2009–10 South's youth team finished first in the West Cheshire League under captain Ellis Jones South won the George Mahon Cup at Goodison Park in 2009 and in 2011 beat Waterloo Dock to lift the I Zingari Cup.

2011 saw the club expand its number of teams into a youth section under the guidance of Mark Eyres with a number of youth teams ranging from 7 to 16 and playing in local junior Leagues such as the Belle Vale Junior League based at Caldway Drive in Netherley.