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| Full name | Newtown Association Football Club | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Nickname(s) | The White Stars, The Bobbin' Robins, The Batmans | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Founded | 1875 (as Newtown White Stars) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ground | Latham Park Newtown (Capacity 5,000 (1,650 seated)) |
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| Manager |  Darren Ryan |
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| League | Welsh Premier League | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2007-08 | Welsh Premier League, 13th | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The club was founded in 1875 as Newtown White Stars, and as such is one of the oldest teams in Wales. Year 1875 ( MDCCCLXXV) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common White Stars, which appeared in the first ever Welsh Cup match on 13 October 1877, is believed to have merged with Newtown Excelsior to form the current Newtown F. The Welsh Cup is a knock-out football competition contested annually by teams from Wales. Events 54 - Nero ascends to the Roman throne 409 - Vandals and Alans crossed the Pyrenees Year 1877 ( MDCCCLXXVII) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common C. in time to be Welsh Cup finalists in 1885 and 1888. The club plays at Latham Park, Newtown, which accommodates 5,000 spectators (1,650 seated). Latham Park is a multi-use Stadium in Newtown Wales. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home ground of Newtown F Newtown (Y Drenewydd is the largest Town in the County of Powys, Mid Wales with a Population of 12783 (2001
The team's first choice strip is red shirts, shorts, and socks. The second choice strip is yellow shirts, blue shorts, and yellow socks.
History
Newtown White Stars won the Welsh Cup in 1879 and were losing finalists in 1881. Newtown F. C. won the cup again in 1895, but this was the last national trophy won for sixty years, until the Welsh Amateur Cup was won in 1955. The first match was played at what is now Latham Park in 1951, and the ground has been brought up to a standard which makes it eligible to stage UEFA Youth Internationals and recently UEFA Cup matches. The Union of European Football Associations (Union des associations européennes de football is the administrative and controlling body for European football. The UEFA Cup is a football competition for European club teams organised by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA.
For most of the years since the 1920s the club operated in the Mid-Wales League, or the Central Wales League as it was sometimes known, winning the championship in 1975-76, 1978-79, 1981-82, 1986-87 and 1987-88 -- on the strength of this record, the club gained entry to the English league system in the HFS Loans (Northern Premier) League. In 1992 the club became rather reluctant founder members of the League of Wales, since when it has finished as runners-up in the league in 1995-96 and 1997-98, and played European ties against teams from Latvia and Poland.
Biggest victories and losses
- Biggest League of Wales win: 11-1 v Cemaes Bay in 1998. Cemaes Bay FC is a football team playing in the Anglesey League (part of the Welsh football league system)
- Biggest League of Wales defeat: 0-6 at TNS in 2008.
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