Penydarren BGC v Pontyclun FC - Official Matchday Programme

OFFICIAL MATCHDAY PROGRAMME | RHAGLEN SWYDDOGOL Y GEM

PENYDARREN BGC PONTYCLUN FC

FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 17, 2021 CYMRU ARDAL LEAGUE CUP ROUND 1

PENYDARREN BGC

A BRIEF HISTORY...

Penydarren Boys & Girls Club was initially formed in 1985. The club was originally based at St. Johns Church Hall at Penydarren in Merthyr Tydfil, where the main activities were table tennis and board games. The club then became members of the Boys & Girls Club of Wales. Two children’s football teams were formed using local council grounds to play their games. Due to refurbishment of the church, the club then relocated using the old Gelifaelog School as a base.

In 1994 the club was successful in gaining a lease to the current site known as ‘The Bont’. With the aid of funding from a variety of sources, work started to remove the old black ash type surface of the original pitch to provide a first-class playing area and a clubhouse with changing rooms. The facilities are admired by many throughout Wales and are held in high regard by all visiting teams. There are also plans in place for a new 3G surface with new floodlighting & changing facilities.

Club membership continued to increase in the late 90s with the club providing teams from Under 10’s to Under 18 level.

Next was the introduction of the senior team, which after playing in local leagues gained promotion into the South Wales Senior League. In 2015-16 Penydarren became members of the South Wales Alliance League following merger of the Senior League with the Amateur League.

After two seasons of consolidation, 2017-18 was to prove to be Penydarren’s season, after an unbeaten league campaign brought the prize of Welsh League Football, winning promotion at home to Cardiff Draconians 2-0 in front of a bumper crowd at The Bont, with six games to spare. The club won 27 and drew 3 of their 30 league fixtures, scoring 117 goals and conceding just 14 in the process.

The club also went on two epic cup runs reaching the quarter finals of the JD Welsh Cup and semi-finals of the FAW Amateur Trophy. The Welsh Cup run saw Penydarren knock out Penrhiwceiber Rangers (5-3), Brecon Corries (3-1), Cardiff Corinthians (4-0), STM Sports (2-1), Llandudno Junction (4-0) and Pontypridd Town (2-1) before losing to Bangor City (7-0).

Penydarren’s Welsh League debut season went down a storm, with the club romping to the Third Division title, winning 24 of their 30 league games. They won the title with a 3-1 win at Ely Rangers, with Connor Keating, Sam Gamble and Alex Long sealing the silverware.

While they also clinched the double, beating Ynysygerwn to win the Welsh League Cup at Port Talbot, by a 3-0 scoreline.

Penydarren kicked off 2019-20 season in Welsh League Division One, due to pyramid restructuring and were well placed for a promotion push, with several games in hand on their rivals, when the pandemic struck. The season was curtailed and Penydarren finished in 4th place on the points per game average, just missing out on a promotion spot to Port Talbot by 0.09.

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MANAGER NOTTES Good evening, and welcome to The Met Coaches Stadium.

Tonight, we face another big challenge in Pontyclun FC, as we begin our Ardal League cup campaign.

The last time we played in this competition, known as the Welsh Football League Cup, we were crowned champions in 2019.

Winning that competition was another proud night in the clubs history and it would great to achieve that all over the again, starting with the long journey this evening.

After a fantastic win in the league last weekend, we are really looking forward to tonight's fixture.

We look forward to your support once again, and hope you enjoy the game this evening.

We know we're in for a tough game as Pontyclun always provide a stern test.

Kerry Mullin FIRST TEAM MANAGER

They are really well organised and are backed by a great manager in Barry Quinn.

I would like to thank everyone who came out to support us last week against Ton Pentre and the previous games so far, your support has been brilliant over the course of the start of the season.

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MATCH REPORT Penydarren BGC continued their unbeaten start to the Cymru Ardal League season with a 3-1 victory over Ton Pentre last weekend.

Goals from Joshua Brogden, Ryan Martin and Asa Lloyd ensured that the Miners secured maximum points at Ynys Park ahead of a busy winter schedule.

Kerry Mullins made one change to the side that lost to Pontypridd Town the week before, with Harri Moyle coming in for the suspended Adam Lewis. Whilst it also saw spaces for both teenagers Reegan Evans and Riley Crumb on the bench, with crumb making his firstteam debut after progressing through the age-grades.

Penydarren started the game well dominating large spells of possession before the first break through.

After Harri Moyle was clattered inside the box, Joshua Brodgen executed the penalty kick well to give the away side the lead after just two minutes.

The same occured in the second half, as contiuned pressure from Penydarren saw Ryan Martin double their lead in the 48th minute, before Asa Lloyd made sure of the three points three minutes from the end.

Starting XI: Stephen Price, Alex Long, Alex Lloyd (C), Ben Gibbons, Sam Gamble, Asa Lloyd, Harri Moyle, Ricky Jones, Ryan Martin, Joshua Brogden, Christopher Colvin-Owen.

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MATCH ACTION

TON PENTRE 1-3 PENYDARREN BGC

PICTURE CREDIT: MIKE BAYLY

RETURNING SOON...

FIXTURES & RESULTS

23. 7. 21 Merthyr Saints 0-3 Penydarren BGC - JD Welsh Cup QR2 30. 7. 21 Penydarren BGC 1-0 Ynysygerwn FC - Ardal SW League 3. 8. 21. Dinas Powys 1-4 Penydarren BGC - Ardal SW League 7. 8. 21. Penydarren BGC 4-2 Aber Valley - FAW Trophy Round 2 13. 8. 21 Penydarren BGC 1-0 Cwmbran Celtic - JD Welsh Cup R1 20. 8. 21 Penydarren BGC 0-1 Abertillary Bluebirds - FAW Trophy R3 24. 8. 21 AFC Llwydcoed 1-1 Penydarren BGC - Ardal SW League 28. 8. 21 AFC Porth 1-5 Penydarren BGC - Ardal SW League 4. 9. 21 Pontypridd Town FC 6-0 Penydarren BGC - JD Welsh Cup R2 11. 9. 21 Ton Pentre 1-3 Penydarren BGC - Ardal SW League 17. 9. 21 Penydarren BGC v Pontyclun FC - Ardal League Cup R1 2. 10. 21 West End FC v Penydarren BGC - Ardal SW League 9. 10. 21 Penydarren BGC v Caerau Ely FC - Ardal SW League 15. 10. 21 Garden Village v Penydarren BGC - Ardal SW League 23. 10. 21 Penydarren BGC v Ynyshir Albions - Ardal SW League 6. 11. 21 Cardiff Draconians v Penydarren BGC - Ardal Sw League

CYMRU ARDAL SOUTHERN LEAGUE

THE 3G PROJECT After years and years of planning, work has finally begun on our new artificial surface.

The new full-size 3G pitch will replace a current grass surface and will be able to host all the club’s fixtures from the junior and mini’s section, right through to the senior teams, as well as renting the facility out to the rest of the community to use.

The current pavilion will also be extended and refurbished with new changing rooms and new floodlights being installed under the plans.

Penydarren BGC’s first team has been playing its home games at The Bont Playing Fields since the early 1990’s and are ready to embark on a new era after originally starting off

playing competitive football in the Merthyr Tydfil League on a coal surface, before it being transitioned into a modern-day grass surface in the late 1990’s.

The timescale of the 3G surface is between 10-12 weeks, with the pitch set to be operating towards the back end of November, 2021.

With that in mind, theres no better time to partner up with the football club commercially.

There are many commercial opportunities available for the rest of the 2021/22 season and beyond.

(SPONSORSHIP ON NEXT PAGE).

Contact - penydarrenbgc@gmail.com

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PONTYCLUN FC

A BRIEF HISTORY...

Pontyclun Football Club has been part of the South Wales football scene for over a century having been founded way back in 1896. It is not certain where the club played its earliest home games - it may have been Talygarn - but there is documentary evidence that Ivor Park became the home ground in 1920 when Wyndham Damer Clark, formerly of Talygarn House, gave the club preferential use of the land as a football field.

In the early years, the club was a member of the Bridgend & District League but immediately after World War I joined the Cardiff & District League. In 1922 the club was admitted to the Football Association of Wales - one of the few amateur clubs to achieve such status.

In 1968 the club was admitted to the Welsh Football League, finishing 1968-69 in 13th place in Division 2. At the same time the club continued to run senior teams in both the Rhondda and Pontypridd Leagues.

In season 1979-80 the club were runnersup to Lake United to win promotion to Division 1 and after relegation in 1981-82 played in Division 2 again until the formation of the League of Wales in 1992, the club being restructured into Division.

The club won promotion in the first season in this division though as runners up behind Treowen Stars in 1992-93 until relegation in 1997-98.

However, the proudest moment in the club's long history came at the end of the 2002-03 season when on an emotional May afternoon, the club won the Welsh League Division 3 title,

piping Skewen Athletic by just one goal! In the same season the Reserves were runners-up in the Welsh League Reserve East Division.

The club played in Division 2 until relegation in 2007-08 and in 2011-12 the club suffered great disappointment when they finished at the foot of Division 3 and were subsequently relegated from the Welsh Football League after 44 consecutive seasons of membership.

The club subsequently joined the South Wales Amateur League and after two seasons of consolidation the 2014-15 campaign saw the club finish in a very creditable fourth place in the league & reach the final of the W. John Owen Cup. 2016-17 was a time for celebration for everyone connected with Pontyclun as the club secured the championship of the South Wales Alliance League by 10 points resulting in the club regaining its place in the Welsh Football League.

The club has every reason to look forward to the future with much optimism. The impressive changing room facility is now complete, substantial ground improvements have been made to comply with Tier 3 ground criteria, while junior football is thriving with a significant number of home-grown youngsters breaking through at senior level.

After spending the past three seasons establishing itself once again in the Welsh League the club was delighted to be selected by the FAW to participate in the Ardal Southern League, West Division for the 202021 season.

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Penydarren BGC

Pontyclun FC

Stephen Price (GK) Scott Pike Sam Gamble Alex Lloyd (C) Ben Gibbons Kieran Edwards Adam Lewis Asa Lloyd Ricky Jones Kyle Sullivan Riley Crumb Mackenzie Thomas Joe Mullin Ryan Martin Charlie Sears Reegan Evans Joshua Brogden Alex Long Christopher Colvin-Owens

Joe Nelms (GK) Christopher Coles (GK) Tom Pascoe Jordan Lawrence Kieran Lawrence Christopher Bell Shaun Moss James Gronow Harrison Flint Joel Woodington Christopher Darlington Tom Tweedy Oliver James Ben Vowles Callum Holden Aled Davies Ashley Beckett Thomas Holder Owain Adams

Manager: Kerry Mullin

Manager: Barry Quinn

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