Full name | Ragged School Football Club |
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Founded | 1949 |
League | Swansea Senior League Premier Division |
2022–23 | Swansea Senior League Division Two, 2nd of 7 (promoted) |
Ragged School Football Club is an amateur Welsh football team based in Swansea, Wales. They play in the Swansea Senior Football League Premier Division, which is in the fifth tier of the Welsh football league system. [1]
Founded in 1949 by Glyn Cole [2] and named after Swansea's Ragged School, the team has seen national success, winning the FAW Trophy four times - the last time in the 2008–09 season when they beat Penycae. [3] After Cole's death the club was run by his nephew, Maurice Hogg, for over fifty years. [2]
They have also been winners of the West Wales Cup seven times.
Additionally they are considered one of the most successful teams in the Swansea Senior Football League, having won the competition's senior cup 14 times and having been crowned champions of the league's top division nine times.
The club withdrew from Division One of the Swansea Senior League in 2015–16 season and rejoined the league in Division Three for the 2017–18 season, finishing as divisional runners-up and gaining promotion to Division Two.
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