Ragged School F.C.

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Ragged School
Full nameRagged School Football Club
Founded1949
League Swansea Senior League Premier Division
2023–24 Swansea Senior League Premier Division, 9th of 12

Ragged School Football Club is an amateur Welsh football team based in Swansea, Wales. They play in the Swansea Senior League Premier Division. [1]

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History

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.

Honours

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References

  1. ↑ "Divisional Tables". Swansea Senior Football League. Retrieved 17 May 2022.
  2. 1 2 "Tributes paid to club's "father figure"". South Wales Evening. 27 October 2020. Retrieved 17 May 2022– via PressReader.
  3. ↑ "Ragged School win FAW Trophy". Wales Online. 12 April 2009. Retrieved 17 May 2022.
  4. ↑ Swansea Senior Football League 2000, p. 104.
  5. 1 2 Swansea Senior Football League 2000, p. 129.
  6. 1 2 3 "Swansea Senior League Tables". Swansea Senior Football League. Retrieved 18 August 2020.
  7. 1 2 Swansea Senior Football League 2000, p. 106.
  8. 1 2 3 Swansea Senior Football League 2000, p. 127.
  9. 1 2 "Swansea Senior Cup Results". Swansea Senior Football League. Retrieved 18 August 2020.
  10. ↑ "Liberty Stadium to host four cup finals". Swansea City AFC. 21 May 2014. Retrieved 17 May 2022.
  11. ↑ "Gwalia Cup Champions". Twitter. Ragged School FC. 19 May 2018.

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