Ynysybwl Athletic A.F.C.

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Ynysybwl Athletic Association Football Club
Full nameYnysybwl Athletic
GroundYnysangharad Park [1]
League TERV Premier
2023–24 TERV Premier, 9th of 10

Ynysybwl Athletic A.F.C. was a Welsh football club from the village of Ynysybwl in Cwm Clydach in Wales and forms part of the community of Ynysybwl and Coed-y-cwm. The club played for 25 seasons in the Welsh Football League, before in the early 1990s merging with Pontypridd. After reforming, the club played in the Taff Ely & Rhymney Valley Alliance League and finished as champions in the 2018–19 season, their third title in four years in that division.

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History

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 after a campaign at that level 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 [2] 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. [3] Later that summer the club withdrew from the 2019–20 season. [4]

Honours

Welsh Football League history

Information sourced from the Football Club History Database for Ynysybwl Athletic [5] and Pontypridd-Ynysybwl, [6] and the Welsh Soccer Archive. [7]

SeasonPyramid TierLeagueFinal position
1920–212 Welsh Football League Division Two 16th
1925–262 Welsh Football League Division Two Section B 5th
1945–462 Welsh Football League Division Two East 10th
1946–472 Welsh Football League Division Two East 17th
1967–68 [lower-alpha 1] 3 Welsh Football League Division Two 4th
1968–693 Welsh Football League Division Two 1st – Champions
(promoted)
1968–692 Welsh Football League Division One 7th
1969–702 Welsh Football League Division One 11th
1970–712 Welsh Football League Division One 11th
1971–722 Welsh Football League Division One 6th
1972–732 Welsh Football League Division One 16th
1973–742 Welsh Football League Division One 10th
1974–752 Welsh Football League Division One 18th
(relegated)
1975–763 Welsh Football League Division Two 14th
1976–773 Welsh Football League Division Two 6th
1977–783 Welsh Football League Division Two 19th
1978–793 Welsh Football League Division Two 20th
1979–803 Welsh Football League Division Two 20th
1980–813 Welsh Football League Division Two 17th
1981–823 Welsh Football League Division Two 15th
1982–833 Welsh Football League Division Two 12th
1983–84 [lower-alpha 2] 3 Welsh Football League Division One 11th
1984–853 Welsh Football League Division One 10th
1985–863 Welsh Football League Division One 12th
1986–873 Welsh Football League Division One 5th
1987–883 Welsh Football League Division One 9th
1988–893 Welsh Football League Division One 2nd – Runners Up
(promoted)
1989–902 Welsh Football League Premier Division 5th
1990–91 [lower-alpha 3] 2 Welsh Football League Division One 11th
1991–922 Welsh Football League Division One 6th
Notes
  1. 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).
  2. 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'.
  3. In this season the club was renamed Pontypridd-Ynysybwl F.C.

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References

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