| Full name | Ynysybwl Athletic |
|---|---|
| Ground | Ynysangharad Park[1] |
| League | TERV Premier |
| 2022–23 | TERV Premier, 6th of 12 |
Ynysybwl Athletic A.F.C. was a Welsh football club from the village of Ynysybwl in Cwm Clydach in Wales and forms part of the community of Ynysybwl and Coed-y-cwm. .The club played for 25 seasons in the Welsh Football League, before in the early 1990s merging with Pontypridd. After reforming, the club played in the Taff Ely & Rhymney Valley Alliance League and finished as champions in the 2018–19 season, their third title in four years in that division.
History
There is evidence of the club playing in the Welsh Football League in the 1920s and again for two seasons in the post-war period. They rejoined the league in the 1967–68 season and over the next twenty years fluctuated between the second and third tiers of the Welsh League. Promotion to the top flight was secured in 1989 and after a campaign at that level the club merged with Pontypridd Social Club to become Pontypridd-Ynysybwl. A year later, Ynysybwl was removed entirely from the club's identity as Pontypridd Town were formed.
The club reformed in the 2010s and played in the Taff Ely & Rhymney Valley Alliance League. Their first season in Division One in 2014–15 saw them finish fourth[2] with the following season they moved up to the Premier Division, winning the first of their three titles in four years in that division (the fourth year they finished on equal points with the winners, losing out for the title only on goal difference.) At the end of the 2018–19 season the club again won the tile, but lost to Maesteg Park in the South Wales Alliance League promotion play-off final.[3] Later that summer the club withdrew from the 2019–20 season.[4]
Honours
- Welsh Football League Division Two (Tier 3 of the Welsh Football pyramid) – Champions: 1968–69
- Welsh Football League Division One (Tier 3 of the Welsh Football pyramid) - Runners-Up: 1988–89
- Taff Ely & Rhymney Valley Alliance League Premier League – Champions: 2015–16; 2016–17; 2018–19
- Taff Ely & Rhymney Valley Alliance League Premier League – Runners-Up: 2017–18
- Taff Ely & Rhymney Valley Alliance League Division One – Champions: 2021–22
Welsh Football League history
Information sourced from the Football Club History Database for Ynysbwl Athletic[5] and Pontypridd-Ynysybwl,[6] and the Welsh Soccer Archive.[7]
- Notes
- ↑ From the 1964–65 season Division 1 was renamed 'Premier Division', Division 2 East and West were replaced by 'Division One' and 'Division Two' (effectively Division Two and Division Three).
- ↑ In this season The Premier Division (Division One) was renamed 'National Division'. The 2nd tier division was renamed 'Premier Division' with the 3rd tier division named 'Division One'.
- ↑ In this season the club was renamed Pontypridd-Ynysybwl F.C.
References
- ↑ "Ynysybwl striving to return to where they 'belong' nearly 30 years after 'heartbreaking' re-brand -". Archived from the original on 18 October 2019. Retrieved 19 October 2019.
- ↑ "The Taff Ely & Rhymney Valley Football Leagues website has moved!". www.leaguewebsite.com.
- ↑ Jones, Jordan (21 May 2019). "Maesteg Park promoted to Alliance League after crushing Ynysybwl".
- ↑ Jones, Jordan (22 August 2019). "Ynysybwl: Club withdraw from league after narrowly missing out on promotion".
- ↑ "Football Club History Database - Ynysybwl". www.fchd.info.
- ↑ "Football Club History Database - Pontypridd-Ynysybwl". www.fchd.info.
- ↑ "Welsh League". www.welshsoccerarchive.co.uk.
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