Newport City F.C.
Full name | Newport City Football Club | ||
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Nickname(s) | The Steelmen | ||
Founded | 1963 | ||
Ground | Newport Stadium, Newport | ||
Capacity | 5,058 (3,246 seated) | ||
Chairman | Crawford Chalmers | ||
Manager | Sam Houldsworth | ||
League | Welsh Football League Division Two | ||
2018–19 | Welsh Football League Division Three, 12th (of 16) | ||
Website | Club website | ||
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Newport City F.C. is a football club based in the Llanwern area of the City of Newport, South Wales. The club currently play in the Welsh Football League Division Two.
History
The club was formed in 1963 as Spencer Works AFC and joined the Newport & District League.
Moving up to the Gwent Premier League, winning it in 1970-1 and 1971-2 and then elected to the Welsh league for the 1972–3 season, where they have been ever since.
They spent most of the next twenty seasons in the middle division of the league until 1988 when they changed their name to Llanwern AFC to reflect the change of name of the steelworks on whose ground they played. This change coincided with a change in the club's fortunes and they gained promotion to the top division in 1992-3.
They spent a number of years between the top two divisions and in 2002 they won the Welsh Football League Cup.
In 2003, they re-located to the Newport Stadium, where they have played ever since.
League re-organisation led to Newport City dropping to Division Three in 2010–11 spending two seasons there before promotion back to Division Two for the 2014–5 season.
In May 2016 the FAW agreed that the club could change its name to Newport City FC for the 2016–17 season.[1]
The club train on the 3G facility at the University of South Wales Sports Village.
Honours
- Welsh Football League Cup winners 2002
Current squad
January 2018.
NAME | POSITION |
Tom pass | GK |
Tsvetan Pateev | GK |
Alex Williams | LB, RB |
Andy Coleman | RB |
Jordan Francombe | FB |
Lee Bridgeman | FB |
Luke Nash | FB |
Nathan Thompson | CB |
Nick Simcock | CB |
Sam Graves | CB |
Andrew Muscat | MID |
Benardin Fetahi | LM |
Dean Palmer | CM |
Geraint Passmore | CM |
James Alloway | CM |
Kareem Leigh | LM |
Martyn Mickiewicz | MID |
Owain Morgan | CM |
Patrick Pope | CM |
Robbie James | CM |
Tom Rutherford | CM |
Aaron Carew | STR |
Jordan Chubb | LW, RW, STR |
Mark Dunford | STR |
Staff and board members
- Chairman: Crawford Chalmers[2]
- Manager: Sam Houldsworth
- Asst Managers: Dean Palmer & Mark Dunford
- Secretary: Matt Rowley
- Asst Sec: Craig Morgan
References
External links
Template:Welsh Football League Division Two teamlist