Holyhead Town F.C. Explained

Holyhead Town Football Club is a Welsh football team based in Holyhead, Anglesey, Wales. The team play in the .

History

The team was formed in 1925 and competed in the Welsh National League, North Wales Football Combination and North Wales Coast League before beginning a long stay in the Welsh League North in 1935–36. They were four times league champions in 1949–50, 1957–58, 1963–64 and 1969–70. They dropped into the Anglesey League from the 1975–76 season.

The club went out of existence between 1998 and 2009, and again from 2012–13 to 2015–16. They reformed in 2016, winning the Anglesey League in their first season back, the Gwynedd League title the following season and promotion to the Welsh Alliance League. For the 2018–19 season re-introduced a reserve side in the Anglesey League.

The club resigned from the Welsh Alliance League in December 2019 but did not fold with its reserve side, in the Anglesey League becoming its first team.^[2]

They then joined the newly formed North Wales Coast West Football League Division One for the 2020–21 season, a season which was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, with the club starting the 2021–22 season when amateur football returned to Wales in the summer of 2021.^[3]

In the Welsh Cup the club has twice reached the quarter-final stages in 1960–61 and 1961–62.^[4]

Honours

League

• • • Welsh League North Champions (4): 1949–50, 1957–58, 1963–64, 1969–70^[5]
• Gwynedd League
  • Champions (2): 1992–93,^[6] 2017–18^[5]
• Anglesey League
  • Champions (6): 1967–68 (reserves),^[7] 1969–70 (reserves),^[8] 1979–80,^[9] 1985–86,^[10] 1987–88,^[11] 2016–17^[5]
  • Runners-up: 1988–89 (reserves)^[12]

Cups

• NWCFA Challenge Cup – Winners (2): 1955–56; 1966–67^[5]
• North Wales Coast FA Junior Challenge Cup – Winners (1): 1987-88^[13]
• Cwpan Gwynedd – Winners: 2017–18^[5]
• Lucas Oil Cup - Winners: 2016–17^[5]
• Megan Cup – Winners: 2016–17^[5]

External links

• Club official Facebook

Notes and References

1. Web site: Jones . Dean . Holyhead Town set to withdraw from Lock Stock Welsh Alliance Division Two . North Wales Chronicle . 30 September 2021.
2. Web site: Jones . Dave . Holyhead Town pull first team out of Welsh Alliance League – but club is not folding . Grassroots North Wales . 30 September 2021.
3. Web site: Nine Anglesey teams to compete in new Tier 4 football league . Anglesey Mon News . 8 September 2021 . 8 September 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210908141708/https://angleseymonnews.com/page/23/ . dead .
4. Web site: Holyhead Town . Football Club History Database . 30 September 2021.
5. Web site: Jones . Dave . In better times: No 4 – Holyhead Town FC . Grassroots North Wales . 30 September 2021.
6. Web site: Gwynedd League 1992-93 . Welsh Football Data Archive . 30 September 2021.
7. Web site: Anglesey League 1967-68 . Welsh Football Data Archive . 30 September 2021.
8. Web site: Anglesey League 1969-70 . Welsh Football Data Archive . 30 September 2021.
9. Web site: Anglesey League 1979-80 . Welsh Football Data Archive . 30 September 2021.
10. Web site: Anglesey League 1985-86 . Welsh Football Data Archive . 30 September 2021.
11. Web site: Anglesey League 1987-88 . Welsh Football Data Archive . 30 September 2021.
12. Web site: Anglesey League 1988-89 . Welsh Football Data Archive . 30 September 2021.
13. Web site: Junior Challenge Cup . North Wales Coast Football Association . 1 October 2021.