Cefn Cribwr programme

A WORD FROM OUR ‌CHAIRMAN Good afternoon and welcome to Coed Gwilym Park for today’s Ardal Southern league fixture against Cefn Cribwr FC. I’d like to extend warm welcome to their players, coaches, committee, and supporters. We are looking forward to testing ourselves this afternoon against a high quality outfit who have had a great start to the season.

After last weeks excellent point away at Pure Swansea, a game we probably deserved to win, the boys are chomping at the bit to climb that table. There's no doubt we should be sitting on around 10 more points than we currently have but it just goes to show how unforgiving this level of football can be. I have no doubt though that Damo and the lads will turn things around quickly and that we will soon be up that league table. We are gradually working our way back to full strength and I’m sure the high quality of player we have signed in the last week or two will go a long way to helping us achieve this.

At our last home game we celebrated our annual Jacob Crane Day. Jacob was a fantastic lad, loved by everyone who came across him and who was tragically taken way too soon. This was our opportunity to do something in his memory. In conjunction with Jacob’s family and the Foundation set up in his memory, we hosted a great day to celebrate of his life, raise funds, awareness and keep his memory firmly in the forefront of our minds. It was very well supported and we look forward to doing more in conjunction with the foundation.

It just leaves me to say good luck, enjoy the ride, I’m sure there’ll be bumps in the road, but know we got the players, coaches and supporters to do something special this season Best wishes.

Come on Clyd Dunno

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A BRIEF HISTORY

Clwb Pêl-droed Clydach Football Club was established in 2021 through the merger of two long-standing Clydach clubs – FC Clydach and Clydach Cricket Football Club. While previously successful, both clubs realised that there would be much to be gained from uniting and pooling resources. Through forming one club, the village of Clydach and the surrounding area now has a club that provides opportunities for teams from the age of 5 through to senior teams, for boys and girls. In our first season, the club secured Platinum FAW Club Accreditation which we have maintained since and experienced a great deal of success at junior and senior levels, including the promotion of our men’s first team to the West Wales Premier League and winning the 2021-22 Premier Division Cup in just our first season. Through the hard work of over coaches, officers and volunteers, the club has continued to make 60 progress both on and off the field. The minis and junior section has over 350 members including over 110 girls. We have over 50 youth team players registered and just short of 100 registered senior players. In 2023-2024, our 1st Team gained promotion to the Ardal Southern Leagues and will again play in the South West section in We will also have two Senior Ladies team competing in .2025-2026 season. We are also a provider of the FAW Huddle 2025-2026 Programme to encourage girls into football

TODAY’S VISITORS‌ Clwb Pel-Droed Cefn Cribwr Established in 1976 as Cefn Cribwr Boys Club by Gary Davies, the club began playing in the Bridgend & District League and were back-to-back Premier Division champions in the 1986/87 and 87/89 seasons.

We were a founder member of the South Wales Senior League in the 1991/92 season, playing in the league until 2000.We again played in the Bridgend & District League, winning the Premier Division in 2013/14 gaining promotion to the South Wales Senior League for it's final season in 2014/15.

We joined the newly established South Wales Alliance league Division Two in 2015/16, and after finishing 3rd in the 2016/17 season, we were promoted to Division One. We finished our first season in Division One as champions, gaining promotion to the Premier Division.

Following the formation of a limited company in July 2021, the club name was changed to Cefn Cribwr Football Club to reflect a club 'open to all'. After successfully applying for an FAW Tier Three license, our promotion to the third tier of Welsh Football was confirmed on May 14th 2022, after a 4-2 win over Blaenrhondda FC saw us finish runners-up in the South Wales Alliance League Premier Division.

As a result of Cae Gof (our home ground) being unsuitable for the Ardal Leagues, our first two seasons were spent in Tonypandy, at the home of Cambrian and Clydach FC, whilst improvements to our ground were undertaken. This did not our progress on the field however, as we won the Ardal League Cup in 2022/23 followed by a second successive appearance in the final in 2023/24, as well as securing runners-up in the Ardal South West League.

In April 2024, we successfully applied FAW Tier Two licence which Cae Gof, our home ground, was now deemed suitable to host. We returned to our home for the start of the 2024/25 season where we continue to compete in the Ardal South West League.

Squad list Elijah Oluwole-Oni Liam Hopkins Ben Symons Robert Symons Jonathan Tiffin Jay Ellis Shaun Williams (C) Arron Weaver Matthew Symons Jordan Jones Jamie Marlowe Jonah Lewis Toby Galliers Kyle Evans Rhys Alden Mark Evans Jack Teisar Lewis Da Silva Tomos Owen Danny Woolfenden Jenson Livick Coaches Scott Dryden Curtis Grant Craig Hopkins First aid Mark Galliers

MANAGER’S ‌CORNER Hello and welcome to Coed Gwilym for this league encounter against Cefn Cribwr. Today will I’m sure be an entertaining game as the on the three previous occasions we’ve gone up against each other it’s always been the case.

Last week saw an excellent performance and a well deserved point away at high flying Pure Swansea. It stopped the poor run of form we had been on and there seemed to be a really good feeling in the dressing room. This I’m sure the boys are keen to harness moving forward.

It gives me great pleasure to welcome a few new players to the club. Over the last month we have been working hard in the background to get some players in through the door. Goalkeeper Leo Jones joins from Ammanford, former Pontardawe Town trio Ben Scannell, Alex Aldrich and Nathan Jones join from Pontardawe, Danny Devey signs from Baglan Dragons and Jac Sudale comes in from Ynys. All will add something to the group and it’s no doubt going to raise the bar in the squad. The one thing that doesn’t change and always gives me confidence is how hard the players and coaches are working to get back to winning ways. No doubt with your support we can start that this afternoon.

Enjoy the game God Bless Damo

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