Formed in 1970, Lichfield City Football Club grew out of Staffordshire's grassroots scene and joined the West Midlands (Regional) League, climbing into Division One before the decade was out.
Promotion as Division Two runners-up in 1990, then second in Division One four years later, earned the freshly rebranded "Lichfield City" a crack at Premier Division football. Financial pressures later forced a resignation from Saturday competition, yet the club kept its heartbeat alive in Sunday leagues and resurfaced in 2008 with renewed purpose — rewarded in 2011 with the Midland Combination Challenge Vase.
Jamie Hawkins' team turned heads on 26 August 2019, sweeping Haughmond 3–0 to reach the FA Cup first qualifying round for the first time. Hawkins left for Chasetown in 2020, and former Atherstone Town boss Ivor Green arrived a month later, guiding the side to promotion in 2021 via a points-per-game ruling and restoring Step 5 football to the cathedral city.
Green's youthful, largely home-grown squad won the JW Hunt Cup in 2023 and retained it in 2024. A relentless 2023–24 league campaign ended in play-off heartbreak, watched by a record 1,110 spectators — but the response was emphatic. On 6 April 2025, Jack Edwards' early strike set up a 3–0 win at Whitchurch Alport that clinched the Midland League Premier Division title and carried City into Step 4 and the Northern Premier League Division One Midlands, finishing with 95 points and the league's tightest defence.
Ivor Green and Wayne Chapman then guided City through their first Step 4 campaign, cementing the club's place at that level and continuing the progress built over recent seasons. The move to the West Premier League has brought significant change, with a new management team and a refreshed squad marking the start of an exciting new chapter.
