RTB Ebbw Vale Football Club are a Welsh

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club based in the town of

Ebbw Vale Ebbw Vale (; ) is a town at the head of the valley formed by the Ebbw Fawr tributary of the Ebbw River in Wales. It is the largest town and the administrative centre of Blaenau Gwent county borough. The Ebbw Vale and Brynmawr conurbation has a ...

Blaenau Gwent Blaenau Gwent (; ) is a Principal areas of Wales, county borough in the South East Wales, south-east of Wales. It borders the Local government in Wales, unitary authority areas of Monmouthshire and Torfaen to the east, Caerphilly County Borough ...

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. The team was founded in 1951 as the football club of the Richard Thomas and Baldwins Steelworks. They currently play in the . They played in the

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for two seasons in the early 2000s and in the tier 3

Ardal Leagues The Ardal Leagues are a association football, football league in Wales. The word "ardal" translates as "district" in English, with Wales split into four regions at this level. They have clubs with amateur/semi-professional status and sit at the t ...

in early 2020s.

History

RTB Ebbw Vale FC was formed in 1951 as part of the then Richard Thomas & Baldwin Steel Company (social section) and entered the Ebbw Vale & District League. In the early 1960s RTB, as they were to be known, joined the Mon Senior League. The club won the Mon Senior Cup in 1969-70 and were finalists in 1971 and 1973. They were crowned Division One Champions in 1973, just missing out on the double by losing in the cup final. In 1980 the Mon Senior League was amalgamated with the Gwent Premier League to form the Gwent County League. As coach, Mike Cope led the club to promotion to the First Division of the Gwent County League as Division Two Champions in 1993–94 and Mike Williams, as player/manager led them to promotion to the Welsh Football League Division Three in 2000–01. In 2002 the club were runners up in the Gwent Senior Cup, losing 4–1 to Newport County at Caldicot. After two seasons in the Welsh League the club were relegated back into the Gwent County and have fluctuated between the First and Second Divisions ever since. On 9 June 2022, it was announced that the club had been promoted to the tier 3 Ardal SE League for the 2022–23 season via the vacancy route.

Honours

* Gwent County League Division One - Runners-Up: 2000–01 *Gwent County League Division Two - Champions: 1993–94; 2015–16 *Gwent County League Division Two - Runners-Up: 2007–08 *Gwent County Motors Cup - Runners-Up: 2015–16 * Gwent Amateur Cup - Runners-Up: 2015–16 *Mon Senior League - Champions: 1972–73 *Mon Senior Cup - Winners: 1969–70 *Mon Senior Cup - Runners-Up: 1970–71; 1972–73

Welsh Football League history

Information in this section is sourced from the Football Club History Database and the Welsh Soccer Archive. ;Notes

References

External links

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