Rhostyllen_F.C.
Rhostyllen F.C.
Association football club in Wales
Rhostyllen Football Club is a Welsh football club from Rhostyllen in Wrexham County Borough. The club was founded in 2015 and they currently play in the North East Wales Football League Premier Division, which is at tier four of the Welsh football pyramid.
| Full name | Rhostyllen Football Club | |
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| Nickname(s) | The Village | |
| Founded | 2015 | |
| Ground | Vicarage Hill Rhostyllen Wrexham | |
| League | North East Wales Premier Division | |
| 2022–23 | Ardal NW League, 14th of 14 (relegated) | |
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The first football club in Rhostyllen dates back to 1879 and existed until 1881. The Club then reformed as Rhostyllen Victoria in 1881[1] and contested the Welsh Cup. On 15 April 1889 during a match between Wales and Scotland at The Racecourse, Wrexham, Alf Pugh, a Rhostyllen Victoria player, became the first ever player to be substituted in international football.[2]
The current incarnation were formed in 2015, and began playing in the 2015–16 season in the North East Wales League, a competition which it won.[3]
The following season, the team achieved second consecutive promotion when it finished second in the Welsh National League Division One.[4]
| Season | League | Welsh Cup[5] | FAW Trophy[5] | Other | |||||||||
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| Division | P | W | D | L | F | A | Pts | Pos | PPG | ||||
| 2015-16 | North East Wales Football League[3] | 20 | 16 | 3 | 1 | 121 | 31 | 51 | 1 | SF[6] | North East Wales FA Junior (Horace Wynne) Cup Winners[7] | ||
| 2016-17 | Welsh National League Division One[8] | 22 | 16 | 2 | 4 | 114 | 35 | 50 | 2 | QR1 | 3R | Welsh National League Division One League Cup Winners[9] | |
| 2017-18 | Welsh National League Premier Division[8] | 28 | 11 | 3 | 5 | 50 | 64 | 35 | 11 | QR2 | 2R | ||
| 2018-19 | Welsh National League Premier Division | 28 | 7 | 3 | 18 | 38 | 85 | 24 | 11 | 1R | 3R | ||
| 2019-20 | Welsh National League Premier Division[10] | 18 | 13 | 2 | 3 | 64 | 28 | -13 | 16 | -0.71 | |||
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League
- Welsh National League Division One
- Runner Up (1): 2017
- Winner (1): 2016
Cups
- Winner (1): 2016
- Welsh National League Division One League Cup
- Winner (1): 2017
- Grovesnor, Gavin. "Review of Welsh football third division - Rhostyllen". County Times. Retrieved 23 July 2020.
- "FAW / FAW Cups". www.faw.cymru. Retrieved 2019-04-17.
- "- Welsh Premier League". www.wpl.cymru. Retrieved 2019-04-17.
- "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2019-02-07. Retrieved 2019-04-18.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - "Welsh National League". wnl.org.uk. Retrieved 2019-04-17.
- "Welsh National League". wnl.org.uk. Retrieved 2019-04-17.
- "Welsh National League". wnl.org.uk. Retrieved 2020-07-08.