Newport City F.C.

Newport City Football Club (Welsh: Clwb Pêl-droed Dinas Casnewydd) is a football club based in the Llanwern area of the City of Newport, South Wales. The club plays in the Ardal Leagues South East, tier 3 of the Welsh football pyramid.

Full nameNewport City Football Club
Nickname(s)The Steelmen
Founded1963 (as Spencer Works AFC)
GroundNewport Stadium, Newport
Capacity5,058 (3,246 seated)
ChairmanCrawford Chalmers
ManagerSam Houldsworth
LeagueArdal Leagues South East
2018–19Welsh Football League Division Three, 12th (of 16)
WebsiteClub website

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 club's 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 Football 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 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 train on the 3G facility at the University of South Wales Sports Village.

Honours

Current squad
As of October 2020.[2]

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

No. Pos. Nation Player
— GK  BUL Tsvetan Pateev
— GK  POR Elisangelo Queni
— DF  WAL Josh Beddis
— DF  WAL Joseph Cashman
— DF  WAL Daniel Dima
— DF  WAL Matthew Escott
— DF  WAL Jordan Francombe
— DF  POL Martyn Mickiewicz
— DF  WAL Andrew Muscat
— DF  WAL Taylor Rees-Zammit
— DF  WAL Solomon St. Clair
— MF  WAL James Alloway
— MF  WAL Matthew Flynn
— MF  ENG Khalid Inyang
— MF  WAL Owain Morgan
No. Pos. Nation Player
— MF  ENG Dean Palmer
— MF  WAL Patrick Pope
— MF  ENG Jack Whiting
— MF  WAL Andrew Wigley
— MF  WAL Rhys Wood
— MF  WAL Spencer Wood
— FW  WAL Dean Clifford
— FW  WAL Josh Corlett
— FW  WAL Matthew Hibbs
— FW  WAL Adam Hurst
— FW  COD Sedric Lokola
— FW  ZIM King Mwedzo
— FW  WAL Kofi Rowe
— FW  WAL Joseph Ward

Staff and board members
  • Chairman: Crawford Chalmers[3]
  • Manager: Sam Houldsworth
  • Asst Managers: Dean Palmer & Mark Dunford
  • Secretary: Matt Rowley
  • Asst Sec: Craig Morgan

References
  1. "Llanwern FC change name to Newport City". South Wales Argus.
  2. "1st Team 2019-20 - Newport City FC". www.newportcityfc.co.uk.
  3. http://wfleague.co.uk/teams/view/83


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