The club played for 25 seasons in the Welsh Football League, before in the early 1990s merging with Pontypridd. After reforming in the 2010s as Ynysybwl Athletic, the club played in the Taff Ely & Rhymney Valley Alliance League and won three league titles before folding in 2019.
The club reformed again in 2021, returning to the Taff Ely & Rhymney Valley Alliance League.
History
An association football club in Ynysybwl was active as early as November 1895.[2] For the 1910–11 season Ynysybwl were members of the Glamorgan League Division Three.[3] By 1913 there were three football clubs in the village, of those it was Christchurch Crusaders described as the best.[4]
There is evidence of the club playing in the Welsh Football League in the 1920s and again for two seasons in the post-war period. They rejoined the league in the 1967–68 season and over the next twenty years fluctuated between the second and third tiers of the Welsh League. Promotion to the top flight was secured in 1989 and in 1991 the club merged with Pontypridd Social Club to become Pontypridd-Ynysybwl. A year later, Ynysybwl was removed entirely from the club's identity as Pontypridd Town were formed.
The club reformed in the 2010s and played in the Taff Ely & Rhymney Valley Alliance League. Their first season in Division One in 2014–15 saw them finish fourth[5] with the following season they moved up to the Premier Division, winning the first of their three titles in four years in that division (the fourth year they finished on equal points with the winners, losing out for the title only on goal difference.) At the end of the 2018–19 season the club again won the title, but lost to Maesteg Park in the South Wales Alliance League promotion play-off final.[6] Later that summer the club withdrew from the 2019–20 season.[7]
In 2021 the club was reformed as Ynysybwl FC, and won the Taff Ely & Rhymney Valley Alliance League Division One in their first season.[8][9]
↑ From the 1964–65 season Division 1 was renamed 'Premier Division', Division 2 East and West were replaced by 'Division One' and 'Division Two' (effectively Division Two and Division Three).
↑ In this season The Premier Division (Division One) was renamed 'National Division'. The 2nd tier division was renamed 'Premier Division' with the 3rd tier division named 'Division One'.
↑ In this season the club was renamed Pontypridd-Ynysybwl F.C.
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