Newport City F.C.

Full name Newport City Football Club
Nickname(s) The Steelmen
Founded 1963
Ground Newport Stadium, Newport
Ground Capacity 5,058 (3,246 seated)
Chairman Crawford Chalmers
Manager Sam Houldsworth
League Welsh Football League Division Three
2016-17 Welsh Football League Division Two, (16 of 16)
Website Club website

Newport City F.C. is a football club based in the Llanwern area of the City of Newport, South Wales. The club currently play in the Welsh Football League Division Three.

History

The club was formed in 1963 as Spencer Works AFC and joined the Newport & District League.

Moving up to the Gwent Premier League, winning it in 1970-1 and 1971-2 and then elected to the Welsh league for the 1972-3 season, where they have been ever since.

They spent most of the next twenty seasons in the middle division of the league until 1988 when they changed their name to Llanwern AFC to reflect the change of name of the steelworks on whose ground they played. This change coincided with a change in the clubs fortunes and they gained promotion to the top division in 1992-3.

They spent a number of years between the top two divisions and in 2002 they won the Welsh League cup.

In 2003, they re-located to the Newport Stadium, where they have played ever since.

League re-organisation led to Newport City dropping to Division Three in 2010-11 spending two mediocre seasons there before promotion back to Division Two for the 2014-5 season.

In May 2016 the FAW agreed that the club could change its name to Newport City FC for the 2016-17 season.[1]


The club play their home games at Newport Stadium and train on the brand new 3G facility at Newport International Sports Village.


Honours

Current squad

March 2016.

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player
England GK Rob Bloor
Wales DF Luke Winter
Wales DF Stuart Patten
Wales DF Mike Bishop
Wales DF Cory Richards
England DF Aden Howard
Wales MF Jamie Argyle
Wales MF Robbie James
Wales MF Sam Hartrey
Mexico MF Matthew Rake
Cameroon MF Bertrand Abang
England FW Alex North
Wales FW Liam Grant
Wales FW Rob Aldridge
Wales FW Dean Clifford
Wales FW Gareth Delve
Wales FW Marc Curtis

Staff and board members

References

  1. ↑ "Llanwern FC change name to Newport City". South Wales Argus.


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