Dissolved 2013 Arena/Stadium Pen-Y-Pound Stadium | Ground Pen-Y-Pound Stadium Founded 1927 | |
Full name Abergavenny Thursdays Football Club Nickname(s) Thursdays,
The Pennies,
The Butchers League Gwent County League Division Three 2011–12 Gwent County League Division Three, 5th (of 13) | ||
Abergavenny Thursdays Football Club was a Welsh football team based in Abergavenny, Monmouthshire. The club was founded in 1927 though several defunct clubs had existed in the town since the mid 19th century. The club was a founder member of the League of Wales, but ended its playing days playing in the Gwent County League Division 3. It withdrew from the league in August 2013 citing a lack of players as the reason and subsequently folded.
Thursdays were champions of the Welsh Football League for the first time in 1959, and retained the title a year later. They had won the Welsh Football League Cup in 1952 and were losing finalists in 1963. Success returned to the club in the 1990–91 season, when the Welsh Football League championship trophy returned to the club after 31 years, and they retained the title a year later, booking themselves a place in the new League of Wales, a new national division which promised European football for the highest-placed teams, but it was here that the club's appalling decline began.
The club was required to provide a bond to the Welsh FA as security to ensure that floodlights were installed in time for the 1992–93 season, which put a considerable strain on financial resources. The uncertainty as to whether the club would be competing in the new League of Wales led to a mass exodus of players, as well as the resignation of manager Ray Warren and coach John Lewis. Thursdays ended the first season of the League of Wales with relegation.
Thursdays finished fourth in the 1994–95 campaign of the Welsh Football League First Division, but another mass exodus of players followed and hope of a return to the League of Wales were soon forgotten. The 1997–98 season did not bring a single league victory for the club, who suffered another relegation with three points from 36 matches. Another relegation followed two years later, and in 2001 the club dropped into the Gwent County League, suffering relegation in the following two seasons as well.
The club's last 11 seasons were spent in the Third Division of the Gwent County League.
Within a year of the old club's demise, a new club was formed to represent the town of Abergavenny – Abergavenny Town F.C..
Honours
Welsh Football League Division 1
Welsh Football League Cup