MATCH PROGRAMME CAERAU ELY FC LLANELLI TOWN AFC CWRT YR ALA RD 7:45PM KO
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26-27
SQUADS 26-27 SQUADS HARRY IRVING JOSEPH BAKER LIAM BISHOP GEORGE SHEPPARD HYWEL DAVIES DANIEL GRIFFITHS JACK TURNER JAMES WILLIAMS TOM MCLEAN (C) VAUGHN FOWLER ZACK MAHER TIM PARKER JACOB JONES JOSH GRAHAM OWEN BANCROFT HARVEY SING LEWIS HARLING JADEN BUHAMAID LATHAN GARRETT JED OSBORNE ADAM COOMER MANAGER: BEN STAIT ASSISTANT: JON SEYMOUR HEAD COACH: DAN GWYN HUGHES COACH: GARETH DAVIS COACH: AARON GARRETT PHYSIO: JAMES HALL KIT: RED & BLACK
SQUAD LAST TIME OUT MASSARO J JACK COOPER COLE GIBBINGS JACKSON HALL BEVAN L. DAWE K. MCCAULEY POWER NATHAN CRISAN MICHAEL MORGAN ASHLEY WATKINS JOSHUA JODA DAVIES O KEANE WHITMORE PARKHOUSE S AIDAN HUGHES EVANS I HUSSEIN K GODDARD J
MANAGER: BOYLE T COACH: REES B COACH: W WALTERS
KIT: LIGHT BLUE
CLUB HISTORY Caerau Ely AFC is a Cardiff-based Football Club that was formed in 1955, joining the junior division of the Cardiff Combination League. Caerau Ely AFC strives to provide players with a sustainable, community-focused programme with the long-term aim of achieving Welsh Premier League Football for the Capital City of Wales. Our ethos and core principles want to capture the unity and intertwined multicultural community that Caerau Ely AFC as a local Cardiff Club will represent. As a club and our home, we are based in Cardiff at Cwrt-Yr-Ala for all of our home matches, with training taking place at Ocean Park Arena. As part of our long-term development and ambitions, we aim to develop a sustainable club model with an experienced and dynamic staff, a local player base, a national standard facility, and an infrastructure to give the people of Cardiff & the Vale a capital city club to be proud of. A club for the people, by the people. The ethos of Caerau Ely AFC is to further develop a community club that the area can be really proud of. A major part of our plans will be to produce a new player pathway for footballers in Cardiff & the Vale of Glamorgan with the aim of providing the Capital City with a local community club that truly represents the Capital City and the Vale of Glamorgan locally, regionally and nationally. Caerau Ely AFC will base all training in the City’s first-class indoor and outdoor sports venue at Ocean Park Arena in Central Cardiff on Ocean Way. The foundations for the success of Caerau Ely AFC will lay with recruiting and developing local talent that we have in Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan. We are committed to continuing our development of first-class coaching, training, playing facilities and opportunities in the capital at some of the best facilities min the Country.
CLUB HISTORY The game of Association Football was introduced to the town’s people of Llanelly when workers from the Staffordshire area of England migrated to the town to work in the ‘newest’ of the town industries – the Pottery works from 1892 to 1920. The club initially played in the Swansea & District League playing their first matches at Cae Blake, Furnace, then the Peoples Park before moving to Tunnel Road and then at Penyfan Fields. In 1912-13 the club decided to become fully professional and applied for membership of both the Southern and Welsh League. They also moved to a new ground, Halfway Park, a former Cycle Stadium, which was situated two miles from the town centre. Their first season 1912-13 was an immediate success finishing in sixth position in the Southern League and third in the Welsh League. The following season they entered into the Welsh Cup and reached the final at their first attempt before losing to Wrexham in a replay at Oswestry after the team had initially drawn 0-0 at Swansea Town Vetch Field. After the First World War the club continued to participate in the Southern League and in the Welsh League with moderate success. They had ambitions of reaching the Football League and as a first step they moved to a new ground in Stebonheath in 1922 Tottenham Hotspur were the FA Cup winners of the previous season were invited to make the occasion of opening the new ground by playing the local team and the Londoners were given a rude awakening when they lost 2-1 on the day. For the next three years Llanelli built up a reputation of being one of the leading nonleague clubs in the country, and in 1925 become the only club to contest every round in the FA Cup from Preliminary to Qualifying rounds and on to the equivalent Third Round of today when they met Fulham at Craven Cottage before losing by the odd goal in a highly emotional game. At the end of World War II with league football returning back to normality, Llanelly AFC in common with other Welsh clubs returned to the Welsh League fold and again gained a place in the Southern League succeeding Colchester United who had gained a place in the Football League. This was another venture into a league blessed with exFootball League players coming to the end of their careers. The manager of the time long servant Jack Goldsborough who had been a fixture in Stebo circles since 1923 as a player, trainer, coach, groundsman and secretary/manager assembled a team blessed in the main by ex Scottish League players including one John (Jock) Stein who was to find fame with Glasgow Celtic and Scotland in a managerial capacity after his playing days were over, but had made history in the FA Cup with the Reds in 50-51, before the club lost to Bristol Rovers after a 2nd replay at Ninian Park. Even he and a succession of worthy managers could not prevent the indifferent seasons the club suffered which meant a lack of people through the turnstiles and by 1958 they had to seek re-election to both Southern and Welsh Leagues. They were granted a stay in the Southern League whilst had to be relegated in the Welsh League Division II (West). But worse was to follow when the Welsh FA refused to sanction their stay in the Southern League. Llanelli were left in limbo with an all time low for their future for the 1958-59 season.
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MANAGERS VIEW Good evening ,and welcome to Cwrt Yr Ala Rd.
It has been a bit of whirlwind start with the back to back games over bank holiday but this past week we have been able to spend time with the players on and off the pitch, which has been great. Now we look forward to welcoming Llanelli Town on the back of a very important win against Treowen. There are no easy games in this league and we are expecting a tough test against a young and enthusiastic team. We will do all we can to gain another 3 points. Thanks to all the supporters for the welcome so far and we hope you enjoy the game.