Aberdare Town Football Club is a
Welsh football
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club that play in the . Their ground is situated on Cardiff Road, Aberdare, between the suburb of
Aberaman
Aberaman is a village near Aberdare in the county borough of Rhondda Cynon Taf, south Wales. It was heavily dependent on the coal industry and the population, as a result, grew rapidly in the late nineteenth century. Most of the industry has now ...
and the village of
Abercwmboi
Abercwmboi is a village in the county borough of Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales.
Location
Abercwmboi is a village in the Cynon Valley.
The village lies on the B4275 Cardiff Road - the old main route to Cardiff before the A4059 road was built - betw ...
. They are a former member of the
Welsh Football League
The Welsh Football League (also known as the Nathaniel Car Sales Welsh Football League for sponsorship reasons) was a club football league in Wales. For its final season in 2019–20 season it operated at levels 3 and 4 of the Welsh football leag ...
.
History
Aberaman were founded in 1892 as Aberaman Athletic and joined the
Southern League in 1919. In 1926 they merged with nearby
Aberdare Athletic, then of the
Football League Third Division South
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to form Aberdare & Aberaman Athletic. However the merged club dropped out of the Football League in 1927 and the arrangement came to an end the following year; Aberaman broke off and started competing as a single club again, while Aberdare promptly folded.
Aberaman continued to compete as a single club until 1945, when another combined Aberdare & Aberaman Athletic FC were re-formed. Once again, the merged clubs only lasted two years, and Aberaman went their separate way in 1947, and have continued in that form to this day.
From 2004 to 2009, the club was known as ENTO Aberaman Athletic due to a sponsorship agreement. The agreement ran out after the 2008–09 season, and the club reverted to its original name. For the 2012–13 season the club adopted the name Aberdare Town F.C.
At the end of the 2019–20 season the club were relegated to the
South Wales Alliance League
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Premier Division.
Squad
Dylan Pearce (GK),
Brandon Edmunds (GK),
Nyles Vaughan (GK)
Rhys Lewis,
Ashton Francis-Carrington,
Moad Elbakbakh,
Corey Hansford,
Kellan Webb,
David Ikete,
Iestyn Thomas,
Shay Welch,
Logan Miles,
Haatim Elmehdawi,
Southern Rowlands,
Cameron Sage,
Thamsanqa Nyathi,
Luke Boyle,
Elton Injai,
Philip Thomas,
Dean Raven,
Logan Thomas,
Ulrich Keuni,
Jack Ford.
Nickname
The club's nickname before the merger with Aberdare was the Swifts.
References
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External links
Official site* (pre-2004, 2009–)
* (2004–2009)
Football clubs in Wales
Association football clubs established in 1892
Southern Football League clubs
1892 establishments in Wales
Sport in Aberdare
Welsh Football League clubs
South Wales Alliance League clubs
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Welsh football clubs formerly in English leagues