High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Tranmere Rovers Football Club are an English professional association football club founded in 1884, and based in Birkenhead, Wirral. Originally known as Belmont Football Club, they adopted their current name in 1885. They were a founder member of Division Three North in 1921, and have remained a member of the Football League since. They currently play in League One and have spent much of their history in the shadow of Merseyside rivals Everton and Liverpool.