Tranmere Rovers are a professional football club based in Birkenhead, Merseyside, England, located on the opposite bank of the River Mersey to Liverpool. The club's home ground is Prenton Park.
📜 Tranmere Rovers History
Rovers were founded in 1884 as Belmont FC, formed by the merging of 2 footballing offshoots from local cricket clubs, Belmont and Lyndhurst Wanderers. Tranmere entered the Football League in 1921 as one of the founding members of the Third Division.
Three years later, a 16-year-old Dixie Dean made his debut for Rovers, scoring 27 goals in 30 appearances before moving to neighbouring Everton, where he would later set a record of 60 league goals scored in a single season. Rovers' Bunny Bell became one of the few players to come close to breaking Dean's record when he netted 57 in the 1933-34 campaign.
In 1990, Rovers lifted the EFL Trophy for the first time. Tranmere reached the League Cup final for the first time in their history 10 years later, but they were defeated by Leicester City.
In 2015, Tranmere dropped out of the EFL for the first time in 94 years, before returning in 2018.
