RTB Ebbw Vale F.C.

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RTB Ebbw Vale Football Club
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Full nameRTB Ebbw Vale Football Club
Nickname(s)Ts
Founded1951
GroundHilltop Stadium, Ebbw Vale
ChairmanGrant Matthews
ManagerCraig Morgan-Hill
League Gwent County League Premier Division
2023–24 Gwent County League Premier Division, 11th of 16

RTB Ebbw Vale Football Club are a Welsh association football club based in the town of Ebbw Vale, Blaenau Gwent, South Wales. The team was founded in 1951 as the football club of the Richard Thomas and Baldwins Steelworks. They currently play in the Gwent County League Premier Division.

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They played in the Welsh Football League for two seasons in the early 2000s and in the tier 3 Ardal Leagues in early 2020s.

History

RTB Ebbw Vale FC was formed in 1951 as part of the then Richard Thomas & Baldwin Steel Company (social section) and entered the Ebbw Vale & District League. In the early 1960s RTB, as they were to be known, joined the Mon Senior League. The club won the Mon Senior Cup in 1969-70 and were finalists in 1971 and 1973. They were crowned Division One Champions in 1973, just missing out on the double by losing in the cup final.

In 1980 the Mon Senior League was amalgamated with the Gwent Premier League to form the Gwent County League. As coach, Mike Cope led the club to promotion to the First Division of the Gwent County League as Division Two Champions in 1993–94 and Mike Williams, as player/manager led them to promotion to the Welsh Football League Division Three in 2000–01. In 2002 the club were runners up in the Gwent Senior Cup, losing 4–1 to Newport County at Caldicot. After two seasons in the Welsh League the club were relegated back into the Gwent County and have fluctuated between the First and Second Divisions ever since.

On 9 June 2022, it was announced that the club had been promoted to the tier 3 Ardal SE League for the 2022–23 season via the vacancy route. [1]

Honours

Welsh Football League history

Information in this section is sourced from the Football Club History Database [2] and the Welsh Soccer Archive. [3]

SeasonPyramid TierLeagueFinal position
2001–024 Welsh Football League Division Three 16th
2002–034 Welsh Football League Division Three 17th
(relegated)
2014–154 Gwent County League Division Two 5th
2015–165 Gwent County League Division Two 1st (promoted)
2016–174 Gwent County Premier Division 4th
2017–184 Gwent County Premier Division 13th
2018–194 Gwent County Premier Division 8th
2019–204 Gwent County Premier Division 9th (when season cancelled)
2020–214 Gwent County Premier Division Season cancelled
2021–224 Gwent County Premier Division 4th
Notes

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    References

    1. ↑ "Ardal Leagues: A geographical look at the teams competing in the 2022/23 season". Y Clwb Pel-Droed. 9 June 2022. Retrieved 10 June 2022.
    2. ↑ "Football Club History Database - R T B Ebbw Vale".
    3. ↑ "Welsh League".

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