Newtown A.F.C.

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Newtown Association Football Club (Template:Langx<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>) is a Welsh football club based in Newtown, Powys, which plays in the Template:Welsh football updater

The club plays at Latham Park, Newtown, which accommodates 5,000 spectators.

History

The club has its origins in two previous clubs, both active from 1875; Newtown and White Stars. The latter won the 1878–79 Welsh Cup and in the aftermath an attempt was made to merge the clubs under the name Excelsior.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> The Newtown club folded into the Excelsior, but White Stars continued, and absorbed the Excelsior in 1880.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> After losing the 1880–81 Welsh Cup final, the White Stars disbanded; but a meeting at the Lion Hotel on 23 July 1884 re-established a Newtown association football club, featuring many of the players and officials who had been involved with the White Stars, and, in some cases, with the original Newtown club beforehand.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref><ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>

The revived club won the 1894–95 Welsh Cup, beating Wrexham 3–2 at Welshpool, despite Goodwin in goal being ordered off for retaliation before the second half (while Newtown was 2–1 down),<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> but in July 1900 it lost the use of the Cunnings, and, with diminished gates and additional expenses, there were fears for the future of the club.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Another article from March 1901 referred to Newtown being defunct, and hoped that Newtown Excelsior would resuscitate the club.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Newtown North End and Royal Welsh Warehouse Newtown emerged in the town in their place.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> In 1910, they were still inactive.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> No records exist of Newtown Football Club again until 1919.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

For most of the years since the 1920s the club operated in the Mid-Wales League, or the Central Wales League as it was sometimes known, winning the championship in 1975–76, 1978–79, 1981–82, 1986–87 and 1987–88 and on the strength of this record, the club gained entry to the English league system in the Northern Premier League.

In 1992 the club became rather reluctant founder members of the League of Wales. Since then it has finished runners-up in the league in both 1995–96 and 1997–98, and subsequently played UEFA cup ties against Skonto Riga of Latvia and Wisła Kraków of Poland.

Newtown Association Football Club are one of the oldest clubs in Wales, being formed in 1875 and are one of the founder members of the FAW. In addition, the club was also one of the founder members of the League of Wales, now known as the Cymru Premier.

The club has a long and proud tradition with the move in the late 1980s into the Northern Premier League being part of the progressive nature of the club.

Way back in 1877, Newtown took part in the first Welsh Cup tie on Saturday 13 October against Druids of Ruabon. Cefn Druids now former members of the Welsh Premier are derived from this club. Wrexham went on to win the competition but in the following season, Newtown White Stars beat the favourites Wrexham 2–1 in Oswestry and became the first club to receive the famous trophy, which had only been purchased a few months earlier. In December 1895 Newtown travelled to play Manchester City at Maine Road and shocked the City team by winning 3–2. Newtown's W. Parry scored all three goals for the Robins.<ref>http://welsh-premier.com/rel_club.php?cid=13. Template:Webarchive</ref>

In 2014 Newtown became the second Cymru Premier club, after The New Saints, to change their grass turf for a 3G pitch. During the 2014–15 season Newtown finished in the top six for the second consecutive season. They also took part in their first Welsh Cup final in 118 Years after memorable wins against Caersws, Bangor and Rhyl. However they lost the match 2–0 to The New Saints, despite it being played at Latham Park in front of a capacity crowd. After the cup final defeat, Newtown entered the European play-offs. During the play-offs, they won away at Port Talbot Town and won away at Aberystwyth Town to take a spot in the 2015–16 Europa League qualifiers.

In July 2015 Newtown faced Maltese opponents Valletta in the first round of qualifying for the 2015-16 Europa League. A last minute winner in the 1st leg at Latham Park gave the club their first European win and was followed with an away victory giving Newtown their first Europa League Win over two legs. Newtown faced Danish giants Copenhagen in the second round and were defeated over both legs losing 5–1 on aggregate. Newtown finished in the top 6 again during the following 2015-16 Welsh Premier League season and were also the only team to beat The New Saints at Park Hall, but eventually lost at home to Airbus UK Broughton in the play-off semi final. Newtown again reached the play-offs after finishing 7th in the 2016-17 Welsh Premier League season, but were beaten 3–2 away to Bangor City.

On 13 April 2025, after the most dreadful season Newtown lost 3–2 against Aberystwyth and were relegated for the first time in their history.

Honours

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  • Arthur Barritt Cup
    • Winners: 1986–87
  • Welsh Intermediate Cup
    • Finalists: 1985–86, 1987–88
  • Central Wales Cup
    • Winners: 1992–93, 1993–94
  • Central Wales Floodlit Cup
    • Winners: 1994–95
  • Mid Wales League Cup
    • Winners: 1994–95, 1997–98
  • Montgomeryshire Cup
    • Winners: 1936–37, 1968–69, 1947–48, 1949–50, 1951–52, 1954–55, 1955–56, 1956–57, 1957–58, 1965–66, 1966–67, 1967–68, 1968–69, 1978–79, 1981–82, 1995–96
  • Radnorshire Cup
    • Winners: 1980–81 (Reserves)
    • Finalists: 1969–70, 1986–87 (Reserves)
  • UEFA Cup/Europa League
    • Preliminary round qualifiers: 1996–97, 1998–99, 2015–16
  • Shropshire League
    • Winners: 1892–93

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Players

Current squad

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Technical staff

Position Name
Manager Template:Flagicon Nathan Leonard
Assistant Manager Template:Flagicon Craig Williams
Academy Manager Template:Flagicon Craig Williams
Goalkeeping Coach Template:Flagicon John Davies
First-team Coach
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Sports Therapist Template:Flagicon Andrew Pellow
Kit Manager Template:Flagicon Dave Rose

Managers

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Europe

Newtown have participated in UEFA competition five times.

Season Competition Round Club Home Away Aggregate
1996–97 UEFA Cup PR Template:Flagicon Skonto FC 1–4 0–3 1–7
1998–99 UEFA Cup 1Q Template:Flagicon Wisła Kraków 0–0 0–7 0–7
2015–16 UEFA Europa League 1Q Template:Flagicon Valletta 2–1 2–1 4–2
2Q Template:Flagicon Copenhagen 1–3 0–2 1–5
2021–22 UEFA Europa Conference League 1Q Template:Flagicon Dundalk 0–1 0–4 0–5
2022–23 UEFA Europa Conference League 1Q Template:Flagicon HB Tórshavn 2–1 Template:Aet 0–1 2–2 (4–2 p)
2Q Template:Flagicon Spartak Trnava 1–2 1–4 2–6
Notes
  • PR: Preliminary round
  • 1Q: First qualifying round
  • 2Q: Second qualifying round
Name Competition Goals
Jason Oswell UEFA Europa League 2
Henry Cowans UEFA Europa Conference League 2
Tom Goodwin UEFA Europa League 1
Matty Owen UEFA Europa League 1
Luke Boundford UEFA Europa League 1
Lifumpa Mwandwe UEFA Europa Conference League 1
Aaron Williams UEFA Europa Conference League 1
Romilly Brown UEFA Cup 1

Rivalries

Newtown share a local rivalry with Caersws who are only around 5 miles away and often attract big crowds when the teams meet. In the Cymru Premier Newtown have derby matches against fellow Mid-Wales clubs Aberystwyth Town and The New Saints.

League record

Season League Position Pld W D L F A Pts
1959–60 Mid Wales League 7th 26 12 5 9 73 54 29
1960–61 Mid Wales League 6th 24 10 3 11 64 42 23
1961–62 Mid Wales League 6th 20 10 2 8 54 42 22
1962–63 Mid Wales League 7th 22 11 2 9 49 52 24
1963–64 Mid Wales League 8th 24 9 4 11 51 62 22
1964–65 Mid Wales League 6th 24 10 4 10 64 49 24
1965–66 Mid Wales League 9th 26 9 7 10 60 62 25
1966–67 Mid Wales League 8th 26 12 3 11 60 56 27
1967–68 Mid Wales League 4th 26 15 3 8 76 49 33
1968–69 Mid Wales League 4th 26 15 6 5 68 39 36
1969–70 Mid Wales League 11th 30 10 4 16 62 73 24
1970–71 Mid Wales League 11th 28 6 7 15 46 77 19
1971–72 Mid Wales League 11th 26 5 9 12 34 50 19
1972–73 Mid Wales League 13th 26 3 6 17 — — 12
1973–74 Mid Wales League 11th 26 7 5 14 32 48 19
1974–75 Mid Wales League 2nd 26 18 4 4 — — 40
1975–76 Mid Wales League 1st 28 20 3 5 86 33 43
1976–77 Mid Wales League 4th 28 15 3 10 54 45 33
1977–78 Mid Wales League 7th 28 9 10 9 50 43 28
1978–79 Mid Wales League 1st 30 25 2 3 77 22 52
1979–80 Mid Wales League 3rd 30 19 3 8 68 40 41
1980–81 Mid Wales League 3rd 26 16 5 5 53 18 37
1981–82 Mid Wales League 1st 26 21 3 2 77 24 45
1982–83 Mid Wales League 2nd 22 12 7 3 52 25 31
1983–84 Mid Wales League 6th 28 14 8 6 67 38 36
1984–85 Mid Wales League 5th 28 13 7 8 70 53 33
1985–86 Mid Wales League 3rd 26 15 6 5 65 30 36
1986–87 Mid Wales League 1st 24 20 2 2 67 16 42
1987–88 Mid Wales League 1st 24 20 2 2 72 21 42
1988–89 NPL First Division 9th 42 15 12 15 65 59 57
1989–90 NPL First Division 14th 42 14 12 16 49 62 54
1990–91 NPL First Division 13th 42 13 12 17 68 75 51
1991–92 NPL First Division 14th 42 15 6 21 60 95 51
1992–93 League of Wales 18th 38 9 9 20 55 87 36
1993–94 League of Wales 6th 38 18 9 11 52 48 63
1994–95 League of Wales 4th 38 20 8 10 78 47 68
1995–96 League of Wales 2nd 40 23 11 6 69 25 80
1996–97 League of Wales 5th 40 22 5 13 74 49 71
1997–98 League of Wales 2nd 38 23 9 6 101 47 78
1998–99 League of Wales 6th 32 13 10 9 45 35 49
1999–00 League of Wales 8th 34 14 6 14 49 41 48
2000–01 League of Wales 4th 34 18 4 12 68 37 58
2001–02 League of Wales 13th 34 9 11 14 35 44 38
2002–03 Welsh Premier League 10th 34 12 6 16 48 54 42
2003–04 Welsh Premier League 10th 32 12 5 15 43 50 41
2004–05 Welsh Premier League 10th 34 13 7 14 49 55 46
2005–06 Welsh Premier League 16th 34 10 6 18 42 61 31
2006–07 Welsh Premier League 16th 32 6 6 20 30 63 24
2007–08 Welsh Premier League 13th 34 9 10 15 47 66 37
2008–09 Welsh Premier League 10th 34 10 10 14 46 54 40
2009–10 Welsh Premier League 13th 34 10 11 13 54 57 41
2010–11 Welsh Premier League 9th 32 8 11 13 40 55 35
2011–12 Welsh Premier League 12th 32 7 5 20 44 82 23
2012–13 Welsh Premier League 9th 32 10 7 15 44 54 37
2013–14 Welsh Premier League 5th 32 12 6 14 46 58 42
2014–15 Welsh Premier League 6th 32 10 8 14 52 65 38
2015–16 Welsh Premier League 5th 32 11 9 12 46 54 42
2016–17 Welsh Premier League 7th 32 12 9 11 59 41 45
2017–18 Welsh Premier League 8th 32 12 4 16 52 55 40
2018–19 Welsh Premier League 5th 32 13 7 12 53 56 46
2019–20 Cymru Premier 6th 25Template:Efn 10 5 10 25 30 35
2020–21 Cymru Premier 7th 32 12 6 14 57 53 42
2021–22 Cymru Premier 3rd 32 15 6 11 50 35 51
2022–23 Cymru Premier 6th 32 12 5 15 49 56 41
2023–24 Cymru Premier 4th 32 13 5 14 49 46 44
2024–25 Cymru Premier 11th 32 6 8 18 36 65 26
2025–26 Cymru North

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