Aberaeron Amateur Football Club is a Welsh

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team based in

Aberaeron Aberaeron, previously anglicised as Aberayron, is a town, community, and electoral ward between Aberystwyth and Cardigan, in Ceredigion, Wales. Ceredigion County Council offices are in Aberaeron. The name of the town is Welsh for ''mouth of the ...

, Ceredigion,

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. The team currently play in the Central Wales League Southern Division, which is at the fourth tier of the Welsh football league system.

History

The club's website suggests the club was formed in the late 1800s. The club were a founder member of the Cardiganshire League and saw success as six times champions of the top league (four times in the 1950s) and nine times winners of the league's cup competition. In 2010–11 they joined the newly created

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Division Two. The following season they were crowned champions and promoted to Division One for the 2012–13 season. In July 2020 the club was announced as one of the tier 4 clubs in the restructured West Division of the Mid Wales Football League.

Honours

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Division One – winners (6): 1952–53; 1953–54; 1955–56; 1959–60; 1981–82; 2001–02 *

Division Two – winners (3): 1992–93; 2003–04 (reserves); 2010–11 (reserves) *

Cup – winners (9): 1922–23; 1948–49; 1953–54; 1954–55; 1956–57; 1959–60; 1996–97; 2002–03; 2006–07 *

Division Two – champions (1): 2011–12 *Central Wales Challenge Cup – Winners: 2016–17

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References

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