 During that season they played in the Lancashire Senior Competition finishing in 10th position out of 17.At the end of the 1901–02 season, the County Leagues elected 18 teams to join the new Division 2 (7 from Lancashire and 10 from Yorkshire and new member South Shields) with the existing second competition scrapped.In the 1902–03 season, Lancaster joined the new 2nd Division, where they would stay for the next three seasons.