 In their first season, they won all eighteen league games, scoring 133 goals, and won promotion as champions to Lancashire FA Division One for the 2009–10 season.They were also runners-up in the Lancashire League Cup after a 1–0 defeat to Morecambe in the final.After one season in charge, Michael O'Neill left the club to join Kendal Town FC as first team fitness coach and was succeeded by former Preston North End player Mac Barlow.