NINE-TIMES winners Bootle will begin the defence of their Liverpool Echo Knockout title with a first round match at New Brighton.
The Liverpool Competition champions, who beat Newton-le-Willows in last year’s final, will be involved in one of two first round matches on May 13/14. The prize for the winners is a trip to Northern on June 3/4.
Liverpool Echo Knockout first round (matches to be played on Thursday, May 14 or Friday , May 14): Fleetwood Hesketh v Wallasey; New Brighton v Bootle. Second round (Thursday. June 3 or Friday, June 4): Irby v Birkenhead St Mary's; Chester Boughton Hall v St Mary's Old Boys; Liverpool v Old Xaverians; Highfield v Rainhill; Northern v New Brighton or Bootle; Birkenhead Park v Skelmersdale; Ainsdale v St Helens; Sefton Park v Port Sunlight; Newton le Willows v Leigh; Ormskirk v Huyton; Wigan v Formby; St Helens Recs v Alder; Hightown v Parkfield Liscard; Southport & Birkdale v Fleetwood Hesketh or Wallasey; Neston v Wavertree; Maghull v Sutton St Helens.
