The Cymru North is a regional football league in Wales, covering the northern half of the country. It has clubs with semi-professional status and together with the

Cymru South The Cymru South is a regional football league in Wales, covering the southern half of the country. It has clubs with semi-professional status and together with the Cymru North, it forms the second tier of the Welsh football league system. Th ...

, it forms the second tier of the

Welsh football league system The Welsh football league system (or pyramid) is a series of football leagues with regular promotion and relegation between them. While most Welsh clubs play in the Welsh pyramid and most clubs in that pyramid are Welsh, five Welsh clubs play ...

. The first year of its operation was 2019–20 with the

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owning and administering the tier 2 leagues for the first time. These changes followed from a review of the Welsh Football Pyramid. Prior to 2019, the equivalent league was the Cymru Alliance, covering North and Central Wales.

The 2019–20 season

The league was a seventeen club league and in its inaugural season featured

Colwyn Bay Colwyn Bay ( cy, Bae Colwyn) is a town, community and seaside resort in Conwy County Borough on the north coast of Wales overlooking the Irish Sea. It lies within the historic county of Denbighshire. Eight neighbouring communities are incorpor ...

, returning to the Welsh Football pyramid.English-tier club Colwyn Bay to return to Welsh leagues
BBC Sport, 7 March 2019

Rhyl Rhyl (; cy, Y Rhyl, ) is a seaside town and community in Denbighshire, Wales. The town lies within the historic boundaries of Flintshire, on the north-east coast of Wales at the mouth of the River Clwyd ( Welsh: ''Afon Clwyd''). To the west ...

folded during the season and were expelled from the league with their results expunged. The season was not completed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, so the final league positions were decided on a points per game basis.

Member clubs for the 2022–23 season

Champions

* 2019-20:

Prestatyn Town Prestatyn Town Football Club ( cy, Clwb Pêl Droed Tref Prestatyn) is a Welsh football club based in Prestatyn, Denbighshire who play in the Cymru North. History Early years Records show that football has been played in Prestatyn since the e ...

* 2020-21: ''Competition cancelled'' * 2021-22:

Airbus UK Broughton Airbus UK Broughton Football Club ( cy, Clwb Pêl-droed Airbus DU Brychdyn) is a professional football club based in Broughton, Flintshire, Wales. They had their origins as the works team of the Airbus UK aerospace factory where the wings o ...

Promoted to Cymru Premier

* 2019-20:

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''(runners-up)'' * 2020-21: ''Competition cancelled'' * 2021-22:

Relegated into Cymru North from Cymru Premier

* 2019-20: Airbus UK Broughton F.C. * 2020-21: ''Competition cancelled'' * 2021-22:

Cefn Druids Cefn Druids Association Football Club ( cy, Clwb Pêl-droed Derwyddon Cefn) is an association football team based in the village of Cefn Mawr, Wrexham, Wales, who play in the Cymru North after being relegated from the Cymru Premier in 2021–2 ...

Relegated from Cymru North

* 2019-20:

Porthmadog Porthmadog (; ), originally Portmadoc until 1974 and locally as "Port", is a Welsh coastal town and community in the Eifionydd area of Gwynedd and the historic county of Caernarfonshire. It lies east of Criccieth, south-west of Blaenau Ff ...

Corwen Corwen is a town and community in the county of Denbighshire in Wales. Historically, Corwen is part of the county of Merionethshire. Corwen stands on the banks of the River Dee beneath the Berwyn mountains. The town is situated west of Llan ...

and Llanfair United * 2020-21: ''Competition cancelled'' * 2021-22: Llangefni Town and Llanrhaeadr

Promoted into Cymru North

* 2019-20: Llanidloes Town,

Holyhead Hotspur Holyhead Hotspur Football Club () is a football club based in Holyhead, Anglesey playing in the Cymru North. The team's first choice strip is burgundy shirts, burgundy shorts and white socks. The second choice strip is all blue. Holyhead Ho ...

and

Holywell Town Holywell Town Football Club ( cy, Clwb Pêl-droed Treffynnon) is a Welsh football club from Holywell, Flintshire. They are nicknamed 'The Wellmen', and play their home games at the Achieve More Training Stadium (commonly known as 'Halkyn Road ...

* 2020-21: ''Competition cancelled'' * 2021-22:

Chirk Chirk ( cy, Y Waun) is a town and Community (Wales), community in Wrexham County Borough, Wales, south of Wrexham, between it and Oswestry. At the 2011 census, it had a population of 4,468. Historically in the historic counties of Wales, tradi ...

Mold Alexandra Mold Alexandra Football Club ( cy, Clwb Pêl-droed Alexandra Yr Wyddgrug) is a football club based in Mold in Wales. The club was founded in 1929 and played in local amateur leagues before joining the Welsh National League after the Second W ...

and

References

External links

Official site of the JD Cymru NorthSOCCERWAY
(FAW Championship summary) {{UEFA second leagues 2 Sports leagues established in 2019 2019 establishments in Wales

Wales Wales ( cy, Cymru ) is a Countries of the United Kingdom, country that is part of the United Kingdom. It is bordered by England to the Wales–England border, east, the Irish Sea to the north and west, the Celtic Sea to the south west and the ...

Semi-professional sports leagues

The 2019–20 season

Member clubs for the 2022–23 season

Champions

Promoted to Cymru Premier

Relegated into Cymru North from Cymru Premier

Relegated from Cymru North

Promoted into Cymru North

See also

References

External links