Aberystwyth Town F.C.
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| Full name | Aberystwyth Town Football Club |
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| Nickname(s) | The Seasiders, Black and Greens, Aber Town |
| Founded | 1884 |
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Park Avenue Aberystwyth |
| Capacity | 5,000 (1,002 seated) |
| Chairman | Tony Bates |
| Manager | Matt Bishop |
| League | Welsh Premier League |
| 2015–16 | Welsh Premier League, 8th |
| Website | Club home page |
| Manager | Gavin Allen & Emyr Jones |
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| Manager | Kevin Jenkins |
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| League | Women's Welsh Premier League |
| 2015–16 | 8th |
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| Founded | 2013 |
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| Coach | Steven Brookes, Tomos Robson & Eirian Reynolds |
| League | West Wales PAN Disability Football League |
Aberystwyth Town Football Club (Welsh: Clwb Pêl-Droed Tref Aberystwyth) is a semi-professional football team, playing in the Welsh Premier League.
The club was founded in 1884, and plays at Park Avenue, Aberystwyth, where their ground accommodates 5,000 spectators with 1,002 of that capacity seated.
The team's first choice strip is green shirts with a white trim, black shorts and socks. The second choice strip is white shirts with black trim, black shorts and socks.
The club was founded by Arthur Hughes, son of a local solicitor, and his brothers Jack and Hugh. Although football had been played in the town since at least the early 1870s, it was in October 1884 that Arthur Hughes placed an advertisement in the local press:
Aberystwyth Football Club
Gentlemen wishing to join the above club are requested to attend a meeting to be held at the Belle Vue Hotel on Saturday, the 4th inst., at 4pm. Members' subscriptions to be paid in advance, 2s. 6d.
The club's early days were limited to friendly matches, as the club did not join a league until 1896. It joined the Welsh League for a year, before reverting to playing friendlies again. They were members of the Montgomeryshire and District League in 1904, winning several championships. With the creation of the Welsh National League in 1921, Aberystwyth Town joined the Central Section, where they won the title six times in the 1920s, and the Mid-Wales League title in 1933 and 1950. Aberystwyth won the Welsh Amateur Cup in 1931 and 1933, and were losing finalists in 1935 and 1972.
The club joined the Welsh League (South) in 1951, although they continued to also field a team in the Mid-Wales League, and for a while in the Cambrian Coast League. Aberystwyth returned to the Mid-Wales competition in 1963 but did not win the league championship until 1984, after having finished as runners-up six times. They retained the title in 1985. Aberystwyth were firmly established as one of premier clubs in Mid-Wales and in 1987 they returned to the Welsh League (South). They were three times runners-up before they became founder members of the League of Wales in 1992. Aberystwyth achieved their best Welsh Premier League position – 3rd – in their first season. Aberystwyth Town are one of only three teams that have taken part in each season of the Welsh Premier League, the other teams being Bangor City and Newtown.
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