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Oswestry Town F.C.
Former association football club
Former association football club
| Field | Value | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ground | Park Hall | |||||||||
| Oswestry | ||||||||||
| capacity | 2,000 | |||||||||
| fullname | Oswestry Town Football Club | |||||||||
| dissolved | 2003 on merger with TNS FC | |||||||||
| founded | 1920 | |||||||||
| league | Welsh Premier League | |||||||||
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Oswestry Town Football Club was a football club from Shropshire, playing at Victoria Road.
History
The club was founded in 1920, as a replacement for Oswestry United, and it joined the North Wales Alliance League.
It joined the Birmingham League in 1924 and switched to the Cheshire County League in 1959. In 1975 they made the move to the Southern League before transferring to the Northern Premier League in 1979.
The club was mothballed in 1988, but started playing again in 1993 in the Welsh National League (Wrexham Area). They played in the League of Wales from 2000 to 2003, at Park Hall, and in 2003 merged with Total Network Solutions F.C. (formerly Llansantffraid F.C.). In 2006 the merged club was renamed as The New Saints.
Colours
The club mostly wore blue shirts and white shorts, although occasionally the team combined the blue and white in stripes. In later years the team wore blue and white halved shirts.
Ground
The club played at the Victoria Road ground until 1988; the sale of the ground caused the club to be in abeyance until finding a berth at Park Hall.
Managers
Source:
- Tom Vaughan (?–1949) (Secretary Manager)
- Tommy Gardner (1949–1951)#
- George Rowlands Antonio (1951–1954)#
- Alan Ball Sr. (1954–1957?)#
- Keith Thomas (1957–1959?)
- George Rowlands Antonio (1959–1961)
- Dick Jones (1964?–1966)
- Norman Hobson (1966–1967)#
- Jackie Mudie (1967–?)
- Johnny Morris (1967?–1969)
- Fred Morris (1969–1973)
- Len Kilby (1973–1975)
- Dick Jones (1975)
- Dave Pountney (1975–1976)
- Alan Boswell (1976–1977) ||
- Idris Pryce (1977–1978)
- Freddie Hill (1978–1980)
- Arthur Rowley (1980)
- Fred Morris (1980–1983)
- Ken Roberts (1983–1984)
- Stuart Mason (1984–1985?)
- Trevor Storton (1985?–1986)
- John Rogers (1987–?)
- Brynley Jones (1987–1988)
- Ken Swinnerton (1993–1996)
- Mario Iaquinta (1996–1997)
- Ken Swinnerton (1997–1999)
- Steve O'Shaughnessy (1999–2001)
- David Norman (2001–03)
– Player-Manager
Records
References
no:The New Saints FC#Oswestry Town FC
References
- (29 July 1920). "Support for Oswestry club". Evening Express.
- (26 June 1920). "The searchlight". Sports Argus.
- {{FCHD
- "IN PICTURES: Oswestry Town Football Club's rise from 1993 to 2003".
- "IN PICTURES: Oswestry Town Football Club's rise from 1993 to 2003".
- (27 January 2016). "Oswestry Town Managers". tnsfc.co.uk.
- One source lists him erroneously as 'George Antonio Rowlands'.
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