Trefelin Boys & Girls Club, often shortened to Trefelin BGC, is an association football club who play their home games at Ynys Park in

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. Their men's team play in the . Trefelin BGC was founded in 1984. Initially they played their matches in the local park (the plough) however they later moved to their current home of Ynys Park near Port Talbot following local fundraising efforts. In 2000, Trefelin BGC won the

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by winning in the final 6–2 against Bryntirion Athletic F.C. In 2007 they were promoted as champions of the

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Second Division and following their first season in the First Division, Trefelin BGC finished the season as runners-up to eventual champions and former Welsh League team AFC Porth. In 2014, Trefelin BGC won promotion from the South Wales Amateur League First Division with at least a fourteen-game unbeaten run. In the same year, they won the W John Owen Cup by defeating AFC Bargoed. In the 2015–16 season, Trefelin won promotion to the

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after winning the newly formed

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. On 2 January 2019 the club announced the signing of former

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striker

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. The club were champions of the

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at the end of the 2019–20 season, remaining unbeaten in the league during a season curtailed by the

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. They were promoted to the second tier of the Welsh football pyramid in June 2020, joining the

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for the 2020–21 season.

Women

In 2010, Trefelin BGC Ladies were promoted from the Southern Conference into the

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. Following two years in Welsh women's top flight, the team broke away from Trefelin BGC and renamed themselves Port Talbot Town Ladies after becoming affiliated with Port Talbot Town F.C.

References

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