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As a Cymru Alliance side Buckley Town can play in the FAW Welsh Cup, The NE
Wales Football Association Challenge Cup and the Cymru Alliance League Cup. The FAW Welsh Cup is a knock-out football competition
contested annually by teams from all of Wales. The Football Association of Wales
(FAW) is the organizing body of this competition, which has been run (except
during the two World Wars) every year since its inception in 1877-78.
The winning team qualifies to play in the following season's
UEFA Cup. Until 1995, clubs playing in those parts of England close to the Welsh
border could also play in the Welsh Cup, but could not progress to the UEFA Cup
even if they won the Cup.
Since 1995, only clubs playing
in the Welsh football league system have been allowed to enter the Welsh Cup,
which also excludes the few Welsh clubs who play in the English football league
system, such as the three professional sides Cardiff City, Swansea City and
Wrexham.
The North East Wales FA Challenge Cup is the local area Football
Association competition for all sides from this area of Wales that compete in
Saturday based competition. Its final is usually played at the Racecourse, home
of Wrexham AFC. Buckley Town have had somewhat of a strangle hold over this
competition for the past ten years or so, appearing in most of its finals if not
winning the competition outright.
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