Llangefni Town Football Club

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Llangefni Town Football Club was founded back in 1897, but according to archive records, there was a football team in the town in 1892, but this was primarily a chapel-based team.

Llangefni Town Football Club were founder members of the Anglesey Football League when it was formed back in 1897, and they played in it with some distinction for many years, winning the League title six times as well as winning the Dargie Cup twice and the Megan Cup once. The reserves picked up the Junior Cup in 1991/92, but eventually the club accepted promotion into the Gwynedd Football League in 1988/89 season, and in their first season they achieved the treble, winning the League Championship, the Gwynedd Cup and the Eryri Shield, the following season 1989/90 repeating this tremendous feat.

For the 1990/91 season the club accepted promotion into the Tyn Lon Volvo Welsh Alliance Football League where they won the League Championship, the Barritt and Alves Cups, not bad for their first season at this level. They went on to win the Barritt Cup outright after treble success in this competition for seasons 1990/91, 1991/92 and again in 1992/93, they also won the Cookson Cup in 1993/94 and won the Welsh Alliance League Championship four times between 1990/91 and 1998/99, as well as being the only Anglesey team to have won the Football Association of Wales Intermediate Cup back in 1991/92 season.

Between 1994 and 1997 the team were not playing too well and for the start of the 1997/98 season the management committee invited Bryan Owen to take over as team manager, and slowly but surely he managed to turn things around. When the club were invited to make an application to join the Cymru Alliance League for the 1999/2000 season, they moved to the new ground at Talwrn Road, Llangefni.

A great deal of work had to be carried out at the new ground before they could be accepted and, indeed, this has been an ongoing item since the move, aiming to improve facilities every season. Floodlights and a 300-seat stand have been installed and the small stand near the club house is set to be replaced by a new 250 seat one. Covered standing room is also in the pipeline behind the far goal.

The club aimed for a mid-table position in their first season, and eventually finished exactly at halfway in ninth place out of 17. In 2000/2001 they finished as close runners up to Caernarfon Town, and in 2001/2002 season they were again runners up, this time to Welshpool Town, another tremendous achievement by all involved within the club. In 2002/3 Llangefni were looking to finish in the top six after a dismal start having to change manager after half a dozen games. Bryan Owen, the former manager, returned for the remainder of the season and they eventually finished in fourth place. In 2003/4 after another bad start, fifth position was attained. 2004/5 brought third after leading for so long. It was hoped that in 2005/6 the club could push on for promotion to the Welsh Premier but a disappointing season brought only sixth place.

In October 2007 former Caernarfon & Colwyn Bay manager Adie Jones took over from Bryan Owen as first team manager. The season went well on the pitch with the team only losing 1 game under him, winning the league to gain promotion to the Welsh Premier league and fulfilling the club's ambitions of the past 10 years. Top flight football had always been the aim but a fire at the clubhouse ultimately soured what had been such a good season on the pitch doing significant damage. Undaunted the club pushed on.

With promotion to the Premier League Adie brought in some new faces to establish the team, but it was not to be and a disastrous run of games left the club bottom by Christmas. Adie departed and was replaced for 3 games by Alex Kevan which turned out to be a mistake. Too many players from out of town made locals feel the team was no longer theirs, an unfortunate consequence of playing Welsh Premier football. The clubs committee decided to act quickly and rectified the situation with the appointment of Gus Williams but the club could not gain any momentum or enough points to be safe. The run-in to the end of the season saw Town relegated on the last day. An earlier game against Caersws, drawn instead won, left Caersws safe and Llangefni relegated back to the Cymru Alliance.

Gus stayed on, being joined by Viv Williams for a battle to see promotion again from a much more competitive league than the one the club left previously.

 
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Leave the A55 at the Llangefni junction and take the A5114 towards Llangefni. Before entering the town turn right onto Industrial Estate Road and turn left at the roundabout and travel through the industrial estate. Turn right at the end of this road into Stryd-y-bonts and travel along Chapel Street, pass Kwik Save on your left and KJ Ford Garage on your right. Turn left at the next junction into Talwrn Road and follow the road through the estate for half a mile, the ground is on your left.

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