Grange Albion Association Football Club is a Welsh football team based in Grangetown,

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History

The football team was formed in 1942 by the merger of Stockland Rovers (who had been a formidable junior team in the 1930s), merged with players of the Grange Albion baseball team to form ''Grange Albion AFC''. The 1946–47 season saw the club finish as undefeated winners of the First Division of the

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. They also won the Lord Ninian Stuart Cup in the same season. In the 1949–50 season Grange Albion became the first Cardiff & District team to win the South Wales & Monmouthshire Amateur Cup, a feat which they repeated in 1988 and 2001. During the 1950s they also spent time in the

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having gained promotion from the local Cardiff and District League. The 1987–88 season was one of the most successful in the club's history as it won both the Cardiff & District Premier Division and the

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as well as being runners-up in the Lord Ninian Stuart Cup Grange Albion went on to retain the Premier Division title in 1988–89. The 1989–90 season brought further success with another appearance in the

Final while the reserve team won both the Cardiff & District First Division title and the Greyhound Cup. In 1990-91 Grange Albion joined the newly established

South Wales Senior League The South Wales Senior League is a former football league in South Wales. The league consisted of two divisions, named Divisions One and Two. Division One was a feeder to the Welsh Football League Division Three, and therefore sat at levels 5 ...

and in the same season won the League's C.W. Bruty Cup with a 4–1 win over Tredomen Athletic at Somerton Park Newport. The club have gone on to win the C.W. Bruty Cup on two further occasions, in 1995 against Caerau Ely and in 2011 against Cogan Coronation. Over the years a number of former players have gone on to play professionally including

Fred Stansfield Fred Stansfield (12 December 1917 – 30 March 2014) was a Welsh international footballer. Career Stansfield, a centre-half, had been playing for Grange Athletic when he joined Cardiff City in 1942 as a part-time professional. He was immediat ...

Graham Vearncombe Graham Vearncombe (28 March 1934 – 30 November 1992) was a Wales international footballer. A goalkeeper, he played his club football for Cardiff City and was part of the Wales squad for the 1958 FIFA World Cup in Sweden. Club career Vearncom ...

, David Giles, Matteo Pulvirenti and Melvyn Rees.

Honours

Division Two - Runner-up: 2001–02 *

Premier Division - Champions: 1987–88; 1988–89 *

First Division - Champions: 1946–47; 1989-90 (reserves) *Lord Ninian Stuart Cup – Winners: 1946–47 *Lord Ninian Stuart Cup – Runners-up: 1987–88 * South Wales & Monmouthshire Amateur Cup/ South Wales Intermediate Cup – Winners: 1949–50; 1987–88; 2000–01. *C.W. Bruty Cup – Winners: 1990–91; 1994–95; 2010–11

References

External links

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