Pontypridd F.C.

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Pontypridd FC
Full namePontypridd Football Club
Founded2018
GroundMaritime Recreation Ground
ChairmanNigel Wheeler
ManagerRyan Wheeler
League TERV Premier
2022–23 TERV Premier, 11th of 12
Website Club website

Pontypridd F.C. is an amateur Welsh football team based in Pontypridd, formed in 2018 and inspired by the former professional club Pontypridd AFC that existed between 1911 and 1926. [1] The club was reformed in May 2018 by former members of the Pontypridd Town reserve team. [2]

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History of Pontypridd AFC

Pontypridd AFC (known also as "The Dragons") was founded as a professional football club in 1911 to "promote first class association football in the Pontypridd District". [3] The club were based at Taff Vale Park [4] in the nearby community Trefforest. Pontypridd AFC played in the Southern League between 1911 and 1926. [5] The club also played in the Welsh League and were champions in the 1923–24 season. Pontypridd AFC were Welsh Cup finalists in 1912, 1913 and 1921. [6] The Dragons won the South Wales FA Senior Cup in 1925. [7]

The Reformed Club

At the end of the 2017–18 season the players and coaches of Pontypridd Town reserves decided to form their own club based in the town. There were several reasons for the split, [8] including frustrations at being unable to progress further up the Welsh football pyramid as a reserve team, lack of opportunities for the players to progress within the Pontypridd Town set-up and a desire to keep a football club representing Pontypridd in the town following Pontypridd Town's move to Cardiff [9] (and later Aberdare [10] ).

Pontypridd FC currently play in the Taff Ely Rhymney Valley League [11] and play their home matches at the Maritime Recreation Ground, a 3G pitch on the site of the former Pontypridd/Maritime Colliery though they are due to move to the vacant Ynysangharad Park for the 2021–22 season with Pontypridd Town due to make their home at the USW fields a permanent one.

League Record

SeasonPyramid TierLeagueFinal position
2018-199 Taff Ely Rhymney Valley Football League Division One6th

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References

  1. ↑ Daryl Leeworthy (2013). ‘The Dragons of the North: Working-Class Culture, the Miners' Lockout, and the Development of Rugby League in South Wales, 1926–31’. In ‘’Sport in History’’, vol. 33, issue 1, 2013. Available at http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17460263.2013.763284#abstract.
  2. ↑ "Pontypriddfc.com - who are we and what are our ambitions?".
  3. ↑ "-i Association Football at ! Pontypridd. I|1911-05-27|The Rhondda Leader – Welsh Newspapers Online – the National Library of Wales".
  4. ↑ "-i Association Football at ! Pontypridd. I|1911-05-27|The Rhondda Leader – Welsh Newspapers Online – the National Library of Wales".
  5. ↑ "Football Club History Database – Pontypridd".
  6. ↑ "Football Club History Database – Pontypridd".
  7. ↑ "South Wales FA Senior Cup previous winners".
  8. ↑ "Pontypriddfc.com - who are we and what are our ambitions?".
  9. ↑ "Pontypridd Town to move to Leckwith after successful Tier Two Licence appeal".
  10. ↑ "Pontypridd Town set for fourth home ground in four years after move from Leckwith Stadium".
  11. ↑ "Taff Ely Rhymney Valley League".


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