CLUB HISTORY

Denbigh Town Football Club was formedin 1880and hasremained one of themostpopularandhighlyrespectedClubsinNorth Wales ever since. One of the Club’s finest achievementscame in 1924when theywonboththeWelshAmateurCupandtheNorth Wales Coast Amateur Cup.

A number of minor successes ensued inthe subsequent decades until the Club hit apurplepatchinthe1970swhentheywonthe Welsh National League (Wrexham Area)DivisionOne Championship fourtimes andtheLeagueCuponfiveoccasions.Townalso landed the North Wales Amateur Cup in1970andtheNorth Wales Amateur Cup in 1972.Themanagerthroughmostof this golden period was John Trevor Roberts who remains oneof Denbigh Town’s mostlegendaryfigures. After the Club left the Wrexham Area League at the turn of the1980s andjoinedthe ClwydLeaguemanytrophylessyears followed. The sleeping giant did not awaken until the 1991/1992season when LiverpudlianduoBillDawsonandRookCookHannah took over the reins at the Club.

In their first season the Club won promotionto the Premier Division, but the biggesthighlightwasanunforgettable1-0North Wales Challenge Cup Victory over the4th placedHFS Loans League semi-professionalsof CaernarfonTownbeforeanecstatic crowd at Central Park. After two seasonsin the ClwydPremier,the Clubwas promotedtotheFitlockWelshAllianceLeaguein 1994/95. After finishing 4th in their first season Denbigh Town followedup instyleby landingtheLeagueChampionshipand Cookson Cup double, the Club’s finest achievement for almost 20 years. The Club joinedthe CymruAlliancein1996/97and enjoyed several good seasons at that level.

Denbigh joined the Welsh Alliance Leagie for2002/2003 and finished 3rd,reachedthesemi-finaloftheBarrittCupandwonthe Alves Cup with Roy Cook-Hannah at the helm. Cook-Hannahresigned in December2003andClwydWilliams&NickHaileswere installed as joint-managers. The team finished theseason in 12th position. In May 2004 Tim Dyer was appointed managerand in2005/2006 heguided the teamtothe BarrittCupandCooksonCupdouble, runners up in the Welsh Alliance Leagueandalso finalistsin the North WalesCoast FAChallengeCup.TheClubalsowonthe Welsh Alliance Fair Play League for 2005/2006& 2006/2007. In 2007DenbighTown were crownedWelshAllianceLeague Champions and Cookson Cup winners.

After Tim Dyer stepped down at the endofthe2008/2009 season SteveJones wasappointedmanagerwithDeanMartinashis assistant. Under the new regime the team finished 10th in the 2009/2010CymruAlliance League.Unfortunately,duetotheWelsh Premier Super 12, six clubs were relegated fromtheWelsh Premier and the 3 feederleaguesallpromotedaclubtotheCymru Alliance. This meant only the top 7 survivedin the Cymru Alliance andso Denbigh Town wererelegatedtotheWelshAlliance League. Jones and his assistant Martinresigned inMay 2010.John James and AndyLewiswereappointedmanagerandcoachfor the 2010/2011 season.

Despite relegation the Club started ground development with hard standing area placed allaroundtheperimeteroftheground and floodlights were installed in April2012. In2012/2013 ex-player andcaptain RichardWilliams-Cookewasappointedmanager. In his first season Cookie took the club to runners up position intheWelsh Alliance League. ThefollowingseasontheClubwonthe league, remaining unbeaten throughoutthe whole league campaign and also wonthe MawddachCup.TheClubwerepromotedto the Cymru Alliance – the Tier 2 level ofWelsh football.Cookie resigned in June 2014 dueto workandfamilycommitments.Ajoint management team of Dave Taylor and TerryIngramwere appointed in his place, but they partedcompanywithclubafewmonths later. In September 2014 the Club appointed ElfedLloyd and 1stteamCaptain Max Peateas caretakermanagersfortherestof that season.

Gareth Thomas (Perry) was appointedmanager on 21stMay 2015, and he led the Club to3rdpositionintheCymruAlliancein season 2015/2016. In the same seasonPerry also took the Club totheWord CupFinallosing2-0totreblewinnersTheNewSaints (TNS).

However, in November 2016 the Clubparted company with Perry andEddie MauriceJoneswasappointedmanager Maurice-Jones took the Club to its highesteverfinish in theCymruAlliance – that of2nd intheseason2017/2018.However,atthe end of that season Maurice-Jones movedto become manager ofRhyl and many of the playersfollowedhim. New joint managers Dewi Llion Jones &MattyJones had the taskof forming a teamwith newplayerswithonlyafewweeksleft before the start of the season. Despite a valiant effortby themanagers and their newteamtheClubfellintotherelegationzone on the last day of the season 2018/2019 and wererelegated tothe WelshAlliance.

Matty Jones left the joint managership rolein April2019 and Dewi LlionJones was appointedsolemanagerfortheseason 2019/2020. He appointed former TownplayerOwain Roberts as his coach. A strong seasonfollowedbuttheCovid19pandemic meant the season was cut short and Denbigh were appointed runners up in the league to HolyheadHotspurs.

The Welsh Alliance League finished in 2019/2020 and Denbigh Town were placed in thenewLockStockArdalNorthWestLeague for the season 2020/21. That seasonwas cancelled dueto the Covidpandemic. In thefollowingseasontheClubfinishedinthird position behind Mold Alexandra and Porthmadog and will continue inthe LockStockArdal NorthWestLeagueforseason 2022/2023.