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| Full name | The New Saints Football Club | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Nickname(s) | The Saints | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Short name | TNS | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Founded | 1860 (Oswestry United) 1959 (Llansantffraid) 2003 (merger) |
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| Ground | Park Hall Oswestry (Capacity 2,000) |
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| Chairman |  Edgar Jones |
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| Manager | Mike Davies |
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| League | Welsh Premier League | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2007–08 | Welsh Premier League, 2nd | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Overview
TNS currently play at Park Hall in Oswestry, having moved there from the Recreation Ground in Llansantffraid-ym-Mechain. Park Hall Stadium is the home ground of The New Saints in Oswestry. The Recreation Ground, usually referred to as Treflan, was a multi-use Stadium in Llansantffraid-ym-Mechain, Wales. Llansanffraid-ym-Mechain is a village in Powys, north central Wales about 8 miles to the north of Welshpool. It currently accommodates 250 seated spectators. There are plans to upgrade the ground to 3,000 capacity in 2008. [1] Due to the takeover of the club's main sponsor, Total Network Solutions, by British Telecom, the club offered up the chance to buy the name sponsorship on eBay, but the reserve was not met. The New Saints FC ( TNS) is a British football club representing Llansantffraid-ym-Mechain in Powys, Wales and BT Group plc (formerly British Telecommunications plc) which trades as BT (ˌbiːˈtiː bee tee) (previously known as British Telecom and still
The club's first choice strip is green and white hooped shirts, white shorts and socks. The second choice strip is blue shirts, shorts, and socks. The third choice strip is orange shirts, shorts and socks.
History
Llansantffraid F. C.
The club was formed by Joe Smith as Llansantffraid F. C. to represent the tiny border village of Llansantffraid-ym-Mechain (population: 1,000) in 1959, and originally played at the Recreation Ground. The year 1959 ( MCMLIX) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The Recreation Ground, usually referred to as Treflan, was a multi-use Stadium in Llansantffraid-ym-Mechain, Wales.
They first tasted competitive football in the Montgomeryshire Amateur Football League (then the fourth level of the Welsh football league system), winning the championship seven times. The Welsh football league system (or pyramid) is a series of football leagues with regular promotion and relegation between them At the end of the 1989-90 season they were elected to the Central Wales League (now the Mid-Wales League) but their stay was brief, winning promotion to the Cymru Alliance as runners-up on their first attempt. The Mid Wales League, currently styled as the Spar Mid Wales League under a sponsorship deal is a football league in Wales, consisting of 18 teams The Cymru Alliance (currently the Huws Gray Cymru Alliance, for sponsorship reasons is a football league and forms the second level of the Welsh football Llansantffraid’s meteoric rise continued and in 1992-93 they gained promotion to the League of Wales as champions and won the Welsh Intermediate Cup (formerly the Welsh Amateur Cup). The Welsh Premier League is the national football league for Wales and is at the top of the Welsh football league system.
Total Network Solutions
In 1996, Llansantffraid won the Welsh Cup and qualified for the first time for the European Cup Winners' Cup. The Welsh Cup is a knock-out football competition contested annually by teams from Wales. At this time a local computer company, Total Network Solutions of Oswestry, arranged a £250,000 sponsorship deal which involved incorporating the company name into the club name. The New Saints FC ( TNS) is a British football club representing Llansantffraid-ym-Mechain in Powys, Wales and As Total Network Solutions Llansantffraid F. C. (no doubt to the consternation of commentators) they met the Polish cup winners Ruch Chorzow and earned a 1-1 draw at home before losing 0-5 in Poland. Ruch Chorzów ( pron ˈrux ˈxɔʐuf is a Polish football club based in Chorzów, Upper Silesia. Since then they have qualified for European competition several times (though they are yet to win a tie). The club's European home games are generally played at either Newtown's or Wrexham's stadium as their old Recreation Ground was far below UEFA's standards (though for their 2003 meeting with Manchester City, they played their home game at the 72,000-seat Millennium Stadium in Cardiff). Newtown AFC is a football team playing in the Welsh Premier League. Wrexham Association Football Club (Clwb Pêl-droed Wrecsam nicknamed The Red Dragons, or more traditionally The Robins, their previous nickname are a professional TalkManchester City FC before changing verbs to singular --> Manchester City Football Club is an English professional football club The Millennium Stadium (Stadiwm y Mileniwm is the National stadium of Wales, located in the capital Cardiff. Cardiff ( 'kɑːdɪf) is the Capital and the largest city and county in Wales.
In 1997 the club's name was changed to Total Network Solutions F. C. , being the first instance in the United Kingdom of a football club renaming itself after its sponsor's name only. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located Following the financial meltdown of Barry Town in the summer of 2003, TNS became the only League of Wales club which had a full-time playing staff. Barry Town FC are a football team based in Barry. They dominated the League of Wales during the 1990s but finished bottom in 2003-04 and were relegated In the summer of 2005 however Llanelli AFC also announced plans to go full-time.
Merger with Oswestry Town
In the summer of 2003 a merger with their financially-weak neighbours, Oswestry Town F.C. (who, despite being from England, also played in Wales), was approved by Oswestry's shareholders, the Football Association of Wales and was eventually ratified on 14 August 2003 by UEFA (who initially objected to two clubs from different governing bodies merging). Oswestry Town FC was a football club latterly playing in the League of Wales. The Football Association of Wales (Cymdeithas Bêl-droed Cymru is the governing body of Association football in Wales, being a member of both FIFA Events 1183 - Taira no Munemori and the Taira clan take the young Emperor Antoku and the three sacred treasures Year 2003 ( MMIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. The Union of European Football Associations (Union des associations européennes de football is the administrative and controlling body for European football.
The 2003–04 season was trophyless for TNS, as they were runners-up in the League of Wales to Rhyl and were losing finalists in the Welsh Cup, also to Rhyl. Rhyl Football Club ( Welsh: Clwb Pêl Droed Y Rhyl) is a Welsh football club playing in the Welsh Premier League. The Welsh Cup is a knock-out football competition contested annually by teams from Wales. The next season, 2004–05, proved much more successful, as TNS won a league-cup double. The Double is a term in football, which refers to winning a country's top tier division and its primary cup competition in the same season
During the 2004–05 close season, after newly crowned Champions League winners Liverpool were initially denied a place in the next season's competition, TNS offered to play a two-legged tie against the Reds for TNS's place in the first qualifying round. See also List of European Cup and UEFA Champions League winners The UEFA Champions League, which evolved from the European Champion Clubs' Cup is a seasonal club Liverpool Football Club are an English professional Association football club based in Liverpool England. [2] After UEFA reached a compromise by which Liverpool were placed in the first qualifying round of the competition, TNS and Liverpool ended up drawn against one another anyway. The Union of European Football Associations (Union des associations européennes de football is the administrative and controlling body for European football. The first leg was at Anfield, when Liverpool won 3–0 by a Steven Gerrard hat-trick, while in the second leg played at Wrexham, Gerrard scored two more after coming on as a substitute, to add to one by Djibril Cissé for another 3–0 TNS defeat. Anfield is an all-seater Association football Stadium in the district of Anfield, in Liverpool, England Steven George Gerrard MBE (ˈdʒɛrɑd born 30 May 1980 Whiston Merseyside) is an English football player A hat-trick in Sports is associated with succeeding at anything three times in three consecutive attempts Wrexham (Wrecsam is a town and principal area in Wales. It is the largest town in North Wales and lies to the east of the region Djibril Cissé (born 12 August 1981, in Arles, France) is a French international football player of Ivorian Although defeated the team drew praise from many quarters most notably the young Northern Irish goalkeeper Gerard Doherty, of whom Rafael Benítez said, "The goalkeeper saved a lot of goals and for me he was the best player in the two games". Northern Ireland (Tuaisceart Éireann Ulster Scots: Norlin Airlann) is a Country within the United Kingdom, lying in the northeast of Rafael " Rafa " Benítez (born April 16 1960) is a Spanish former footballer and has been the manager [3]
The New Saints F. C.
In early 2006 the club's sponsor, Total Network Solutions, was taken over by British Telecom, as a result of which the sponsorship arrangement lapsed at the end of the 2005–06 season and it became necessary to find a new name for the club. BT Group plc (formerly British Telecommunications plc) which trades as BT (ˌbiːˈtiː bee tee) (previously known as British Telecom and still After a trawl for naming ideas, including an attempt to sell the naming rights on eBay, the name "The New Saints" was agreed upon as appropriate to the clubs' history — Llansantffraid was always known as "The Saints", while Oswestry had strong connections with Saint Oswald, while handily retaining the initials "TNS". eBay Inc is an American Internet company that manages eBaycom an Online auction and shopping Website in which people and businesses buy and Oswald (c 604 &ndash August 5, 642) was King of Northumbria from 634 until his death and is now venerated as a Christian Saint. A new club badge was also developed at the same time, featuring a dragon to represent Llansantffraid and a lion representing Oswestry.
"Dancing in the Streets"
On the Sky Sports football show Soccer Saturday, TNS's name is gently mocked by the programme's main presenter, Jeff Stelling. Gillette Soccer Saturday is a Television programme broadcast on Sky Sports in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland during Jeff Stelling (born 1956 is a Sports journalist and Sport Television presenter, who has become one of television's most popular personalities hosting At the end of the day's classified check (in which the Welsh Premiership is always the last set of results given, and in which TNS are often alphabetically last, though not since the 2005–06 season), if TNS have played and won at home, Stelling invariably uses his now famous catchphrase "They'll be dancing in the streets of Total Network Solutions tonight!", since updated to "dancing in the streets of The New Saints". Stelling's joke was also occasionally aimed at fellow Welsh side, Airbus UK in 2005–06. Airbus UK Broughton FC is a football team based in Broughton Flintshire, Wales, a few miles from the city of Chester. Stelling's joke is, of course, derived from the accidental 'dancing in the streets of Raith', said by Sam Leitch in the 1960s of the Kirkcaldy-based Raith Rovers. Kirkcaldy (kɪrˈkɔːdi Cathair Chaladain) is a town and former Royal burgh in Fife, on the east coast of Scotland. Raith Rovers Football Club is a Scottish professional football club based in Kirkcaldy, Fife.
Some Oswestry fans have campaigned to change the name to Oswestry United or Town.
Current First Team Squad
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Notable former players
Honours
- Promoted to League of Wales: 1993
- Champions (4): 1999/2000, 2004/05, 2005/06, 2006/07
- Runners-up (3): 2001/02, 2002/03, 2003/04
- Welsh Cup winners (2): 1995/96, 2004/05
- Runners-up (2): 2000/01, 2003/04
- FAW Premier Cup winners (1): 2006/7
- League of Wales Cup Winners (2): 1994/95, 2005/06
- Welsh Intermediate Cup Winners (1): 1992/93
- Cymru Alliance League Winners (1): 1992/93
- Highest attendance: 14,563 against Liverpool F. Strikers, also known as forwards and attackers, are the players on a team in Association football (soccer in the row nearest to the opposing Strikers, also known as forwards and attackers, are the players on a team in Association football (soccer in the row nearest to the opposing For the Australian Rules position see Midfielder (Australian Rules. Jamie Wood (born 21 September 1978 in Salford) is an English -born Caymanian footballer who plays as a striker. For the Australian Rules position see Midfielder (Australian Rules. For the Australian Rules position see Midfielder (Australian Rules. In Association football (soccer a defender is a player who tries to prevent the other team from scoring Steven "Steve" Evans (born February 26, 1979) is a Welsh professional footballer who plays for Conference National side Wrexham Marc Lloyd-Williams (born 8 February 1973 in Bangor, Wales) is a Welsh footballer, currently playing for Porthmadog Tony Henry is a British singer who has performed at Buckingham Palace, the FA Cup Final, and the Royal Albert Hall. Kenneth "Ken" McKenna (born July 2 1960 in Birkenhead) was the manager of The New Saints until he left by mutual consent in March 2008 Simon Ithel Davies (born 23 April 1974) is a former Welsh footballer who is now manager of League Two side Chester City Stephen Anthrobus (born 10 November 1968) in Lewisham) is a retired English football player who played for Millwall C. , 2005
Biggest victories and losses
- Biggest League of Wales win: 8-1 v. Briton Ferry Athletic in 1997.
- Biggest League of Wales defeat: 0-10 v. Barry Town in 1997. Barry Town FC are a football team based in Barry. They dominated the League of Wales during the 1990s but finished bottom in 2003-04 and were relegated
References
- ^ Park Hall, Oswestry. The New Saints F. C. Retrieved on 2007-09-05. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 1590 - Alexander Farnese 's army forces Henry IV of France to raise the siege of Paris.
- ^ Welsh club offer Liverpool lifeline, RTÉ, 26 May 2005
- ^ Benitez praise for TNS goalkeeper, BBC Sport Online, 19 July 2005. Events 451 - The Battle of Avarayr between Armenian rebels and the Sassanid Empire takes place Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Events 711 - Muslim forces under Tariq ibn Ziyad defeat the Visigoths led by their king Roderic. Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Retrieved 12 May 2006
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