Manager Gareth Harboard | Founded 1968 | |
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Full name Tredegar Town Football Club League Welsh Football League Division Three | ||
Tredegar Town Football Club are a football club based in Tredegar, in Wales. The club currently plays in the Welsh Football League Division Three which is the fourth tier of the Welsh football league system in South Wales.
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History
Tredegar Town AFC was formed over 40 years ago in 1968 by its present life president Cliff Bethel to provide a recreation for those young men who preferred playing association football to Rugby Union, the team was originally known as the Rhyd Boys Club and was known throughout Wales for sending players to represent Wales at school boy and Boys Club of Wales level. In 1983 the team changed to Tredegar Town AFC and moved on to senior level football initially plying their trade in the North Gwent Division 1 league rising to a premier division place sometimes in the eighties.
With the introduction of the Welsh league Pyramid of non-league clubs Tredegar gained a place in the more challenging Gwent County F A League and played their games at the recreation ground. The team steadily gained credibility throughout the nineties rising from division 3 to division 2 then to the top division, then in season 1997/98 they won the Gwent County League and applied to the Welsh League for membership and joined the Welsh league in season 1998/99.
After one season they finished runners up in the league and gained promotion to Welsh League Division 2 in 2000/01 and remained in this division until they were relegated in season 2009/2010. In August 2004 Tredegar moved from the recreation ground the ground they had played at for 36 years to a purpose built ground at Tredegar Leisure centre and when lights were added with help of funding from the Welsh League and local council and Tredegar were proud to have some of the best facilities in the Welsh League.