Llanllyfni Football Club () were a Welsh

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team based in

Llanllyfni Llanllyfni () is a village and a community (Wales), community in Gwynedd, Wales. It is in the Historic counties of Wales, historic county of Caernarfonshire. The community consists of the villages of Drws-y-coed, Nantlle, Nasareth, Nebo, Gwynedd ...

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, Wales.

History

The club was formed in 2005, with many of the players that season having played for the village's junior teams including those who won the Gwyrfai League under-12 competition in 1992. The club was confirmed as one of three new clubs to join the

Caernarfon & District League The Caernarfon & District League was a football league covering the Caernarfon and surrounding areas in North Wales. League history The league was a renamed version of the Bangor & District League that had run between 1930 and 1937 and again aft ...

for the 2005–06 season. The team's first friendly took place in July against Rhiwlas. The following month saw the club's first competitive game against Caernarfon Borough. The club finished the season as league champions. The club were promoted to the

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 ...

for following season, and finished 11th, from 16 clubs in the division. The following season saw more success with the club finishing as league champions. The club were promoted again, this time to the

Welsh Alliance League The Welsh Alliance Football League (formerly the ''Lock Stock Welsh Alliance Football League'', for sponsorship reasons) was a football league formed in 1984, and discontinued in 2020 following the reorganisation of the Welsh football pyramid for ...

and finished 13th from 17 clubs. The club left the league ahead of the 2009–10 season and folded due to a shortage of players. The club reformed and returned to Caernarfon & District League in Division One for the 2010–11 season and immediately achieved more success, winning the title. The first season back in the Gwynedd League saw them finish in fourth place. The following season they finished seventh before in the 2013–14 season they finished bottom of the league. In a remarkable turnaround the following season they finished as league champions. Promoted back to the Welsh Alliance League as Division Two side, the club finished third in the 2015–16 season. In May 2017, the club resigned from the Welsh Alliance League with two games of the season remaining, and their record in the league for the 2016–17 was expunged. The club folded shortly afterwards.

Honours

**Champions (2): 2007–08, 2014–15 *

**Champions (2): 2005–06, 2010–11

References

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