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Blaenau Ffestiniog Amateur F.C.
Blaenau Ffestiniog Amateur Football Club are a Welsh football club from Blaenau Ffestiniog, Gwynedd. They play in the . Founded in 1883, they are given the nickname "The Quarrymen" due to the quarry history around the town. The Quarry Men play their home games at Cae Clyd. History Football has been played in the slate stronghold of Blaenau Ffestiniog since the 1880s when clubs like Festiniog Town, Blue Stars, Festiniog Juniors and Festiniog Athletic played regular friendlies. Ffestiniog became founder members of the Cambrian League in 1896 but football during this period was rarely covered in the press. At the turn of the century Blaenau's population was over 10,000 and such was the support for football that a local league was formed. 1906 saw the first appearance of a Blaenau side in the senior leagues when Ffestiniog Town entered the North Wales Coast League, winning it in 1912–13. Reforming after the First World War as "Blaenau Ffestiniog Comrades of the Great War FC" t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blaenau Ffestiniog
Blaenau Ffestiniog () is a town in Gwynedd, Wales. Once a slate mining centre in historic Merionethshire, it now relies much on tourists, drawn for instance to the Ffestiniog Railway and Llechwedd Slate Caverns. It reached a population of 12,000 at the peak development of the slate industry, but fell with the decline in demand for slate. The population of the community, including the nearby village Llan Ffestiniog, was 4,875 at the 2011 census: the fourth most populous in Gwynedd after Bangor, Caernarfon and Llandeiniolen. The population not including Llan is now only about 4,000. Etymology and pronunciation The meaning of Blaenau Ffestiniog is "uplands of Ffestiniog". The Welsh word ' is the plural of ' "upland, remote region". Ffestiniog here is probably "territory of Ffestin" (Ffestin being a personal name) or could possibly mean "defensive place". The English pronunciation of Blaenau Ffestiniog suggested by the ''BBC Pronouncing Dictionary of British Names'' is , but th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Association Football
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 Football player, players who almost exclusively use their feet to propel a Ball (association football), ball around a rectangular field called a Football pitch, pitch. The objective of the game is to Scoring in association football, score more goals than the opposing team by moving the ball beyond the goal line into a rectangular-framed Goal (sport), goal defended by the opposing team. Traditionally, the game has been played over two 45-minute halves, for a total match time of 90 minutes. With an estimated 250 million players active in over 200 countries and territories, it is the world's most popular sport. Association football is played in accordance with the Laws of the Game (association football), Laws of the Game, a set of rules that has been in effect since 1863 and maintained by the International Football Association Board, IFAB since 1886. The game is pla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gwynedd
Gwynedd () is a county in the north-west of Wales. It borders Anglesey across the Menai Strait to the north, Conwy, Denbighshire, and Powys to the east, Ceredigion over the Dyfi estuary to the south, and the Irish Sea to the west. The city of Bangor is the largest settlement, and the administrative centre is Caernarfon. The preserved county of Gwynedd, which is used for ceremonial purposes, includes the Isle of Anglesey. Gwynedd is the second largest county in Wales but sparsely populated, with an area of and a population of 117,400. After Bangor (18,322), the largest settlements are Caernarfon (9,852), Bethesda (4,735), and Pwllheli (4,076). The county has the highest percentage of Welsh speakers in Wales, at 64.4%, and is considered a heartland of the language. The geography of Gwynedd is mountainous, with a long coastline to the west. The county contains much of Snowdonia (), a national park which contains Wales's highest mountain, Snowdon (; ). To the west, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Welsh League North
The Welsh League North was a football league in north and central Wales which formed the first level of the Welsh football league system between 1935 and 1984. It is considered North Wales's most successful league, running uninterrupted apart from the Second World War for forty-nine years until its transition into the Welsh Alliance League in for the 1984–85 season. Champions * 1935–36 - Llandudno * 1936–37 - Llandudno * 1936–37 - Porthmadog * 1937–38 - Llandudno * 1938–39 - Caernarfon Town * 1945–46 - H.M.S. Glendower * 1946–47 ** Western Area: Caernarfon Town ** Eastern Area: Connah's Quay St Davids * 1948–49 - Penrhyn Quarry * 1948–49 - Llandudno Junction * 1949–50 - Holywell Town * 1950–51 - Pwllheli * 1951–52 - Pwllheli * 1952–53 - Holywell Town * 1953–54 - 55th R.A. Tonfannau * 1954–55 - Fflint Town United * 1955–56 - Fflint Town United * 1956–57 - Fflint Town United * 1957–58 - Holywell Town * 1958–59 - Borough United * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gwynedd League
The Gwynedd Football League was a association football, football league at the fifth level of the Welsh football league system in north-west Wales. The league folded in 2020 due to a reorganisation of the Welsh football league pyramid, with many teams joining the North Wales Coast West Football League. Member clubs for the final 2019–20 season *Bangor 1876 F.C., Bangor 1876 *Bethesda Athletic F.C., Bethesda Athletic *C.P.D. Bontnewydd, Bontnewydd *Bro Goronwy F.C., Bro Goronwy *Caergybi *Glantraeth F.C., Glantraeth *Llangoed F.C., Llangoed *Llannerchymedd F.C., Llannerch-y-medd *C.P.D. Llanystumdwy, Llanystumdwy *Menai Bridge Tigers F.C., Menai Bridge Tigers *Ogwen Tigers ''(folded June 2020)'' *Nefyn United F.C., Nefyn United *Talysarn Celts F.C., Talysarn Celts *Trearddur Bay Bulls F.C., Trearddur Bay Bulls *Waunfawr Cups There were three active cups played for within the league. They were: *Tarian Gwynedd Safeflue Shield *Cwpan Gwynedd (Gwynedd Cup) *Tarian Goffa Bob ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
