Oswestry Town F.C.

Not to be confused with F.C. Oswestry Town.

Full name	Oswestry Town Football Club
Founded	1920
Dissolved	2003
Ground	Park Hall Oswestry
Capacity	2,000
League	Welsh Premier League 2000–03
Home colours

Oswestry Town Football Club was a football club from Shropshire, playing at Victoria Road.

History

The club was founded in 1920, as a replacement for Oswestry United, ^[1] and it joined the North Wales Alliance League. ^[2]

It joined the Birmingham League in 1924 and switched to the Cheshire County League in 1959. In 1975 they made the move to the Southern League before transferring to the Northern Premier League in 1979.

The club was mothballed in 1988, but started playing again in 1993 in the Welsh National League (Wrexham Area). They played in the League of Wales from 2000 to 2003, at Park Hall, and in 2003 merged with Total Network Solutions F.C. (formerly Llansantffraid F.C.). In 2006 the merged club was renamed as The New Saints. ^[3]

Colours

The club mostly wore blue shirts and white shorts, although occasionally the team combined the blue and white in stripes. ^[4]

Ground

The club played at the Victoria Road ground until 1988; the sale of the ground caused the club to be in abeyance until finding a berth at Park Hall. ^[5]

Managers

Source: ^[6]

Tom Vaughan (?–1949) (Secretary Manager) Tommy Gardner (1949–1951)# George Rowlands Antonio [7] (1951–1954)# Alan Ball Sr. (1954–1957?)# Keith Thomas (1957–1959?) George Rowlands Antonio [7] (1959–1961) Dick Jones (1964?–1966) Norman Hobson (1966–1967)# Jackie Mudie (1967–?) Johnny Morris (1967?–1969) Fred Morris (1969–1973) Len Kilby (1973–1975) Dick Jones (1975) Dave Pountney (1975–1976) Alan Boswell (1976–1977)

Idris Pryce (1977–1978) Freddie Hill (1978–1980) Arthur Rowley (1980) Fred Morris (1980–1983) Ken Roberts (1983–1984) Stuart Mason (1984–1985?) Trevor Storton (1985?–1986) John Rogers (1987–?) Brynley Jones (1987–1988) Ken Swinerton (1993–1996) Mario Iquinta (1996–1997) Ken Swinerton (1997–1999) Steve O'Shaughnessy (1999–2001) David Norman (2001–03)

# – Player-Manager

Records

• Best FA Cup performance: 1st round proper, 1927–28, 1957–58, 1959–60. 1974–75
• Best FA Trophy performance: 2nd round, 1979–80 ^[3]
• Best Welsh Cup performance: Semi-finals, 1938–39 (replay), 1955–56, 1970–71 ^[3]

References

1. "Support for Oswestry club". Evening Express: 8. 29 July 1920.
2. "The searchlight". Sports Argus: 1. 26 June 1920.
3. Oswestry Town at the Football Club History Database
4. "IN PICTURES: Oswestry Town Football Club's rise from 1993 to 2003". Cheshire and Border Counties Advertizer. Retrieved 31 August 2025.
5. "IN PICTURES: Oswestry Town Football Club's rise from 1993 to 2003". Cheshire and Border Counties Advertizer. Retrieved 31 August 2025.
6. "Oswestry Town Managers". tnsfc.co.uk. 27 January 2016. Retrieved 8 January 2017.
7. One source lists him erroneously as 'George Antonio Rowlands'.