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Bangor City F.C.
Bangor City Football Club (Welsh: Clwb Pêl-droed Dinas Bangor) was a Welsh football club from the City of Bangor, Gwynedd.
Founded in 1876, Bangor City have been founder members of the North Wales Coast League, the Welsh National League, the North Wales Combination, the Welsh National League (North), the Northern Premier League, the Alliance Premier League and the League of Wales, as well as playing in the inaugural Welsh Cup. The team won the Welsh Cup eight times and the Welsh Premier League three times, as well as taking part in European competitions.
The club's home colours were traditionally royal blue shirts, royal blue shorts and royal blue socks, although over the years home colours were varied to include royal blue and yellow and scarlet and Royal blue.
The club last played during the 2021–22 season in the Cymru North the second level of the Welsh football league system. On 30 November 2021 they were suspended from any football activity due to non-payment of staff wages. On 18 February 2022 the club announced they had withdrawn from the league and the Football Association of Wales confirmed the club's results from the league that season has been expunged. The club subsequently failed to apply for tier 2 or tier 3 licences, leaving them unable to play in any Football Association of Wales league for the 2022–23 season.
Bangor City F.C. was one of Wales' older football clubs, and has played in European football, the English pyramid system and the Cymru Premier.
The club was a founding member of the North Wales Coast League in 1893, the Welsh National League in 1921, the North Wales Combination in 1930, the Welsh League North in 1935, the Northern Premier League in 1968, the Alliance Premier League (now National League) in 1979, and in 1992 the League of Wales.
In 1947 and 1950 Bangor challenged for election to the football leagues Third Division North yet failed on each occasion. In the 1961–62 season, they won the Welsh Cup, and consequently entered in the European Cup Winners' Cup for the first time. In the first round, they were drawn against the Italian Cup winners, Napoli. In the first leg, played at Farrar Road, Bangor won 2–0; three weeks later, in front of a crowd of 80,000 in Naples, the result was 3–1 in Napoli's favour. A playoff had to be played, at Arsenal's Highbury Stadium, in London and AS Napoli won 2–1.
At the end of 1977–78 when Southport was relegated from the English Football League Fourth Division, Bangor City, Boston United and Wigan Athletic were considered for promotion in its place. Due to Wigan Athletic having installed crush barriers, they were elected ahead of Bangor and Boston in the same year Bangor was invited to the 1977–78 Anglo-Italian Cup.
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Bangor City F.C.
Bangor City Football Club (Welsh: Clwb Pêl-droed Dinas Bangor) was a Welsh football club from the City of Bangor, Gwynedd.
Founded in 1876, Bangor City have been founder members of the North Wales Coast League, the Welsh National League, the North Wales Combination, the Welsh National League (North), the Northern Premier League, the Alliance Premier League and the League of Wales, as well as playing in the inaugural Welsh Cup. The team won the Welsh Cup eight times and the Welsh Premier League three times, as well as taking part in European competitions.
The club's home colours were traditionally royal blue shirts, royal blue shorts and royal blue socks, although over the years home colours were varied to include royal blue and yellow and scarlet and Royal blue.
The club last played during the 2021–22 season in the Cymru North the second level of the Welsh football league system. On 30 November 2021 they were suspended from any football activity due to non-payment of staff wages. On 18 February 2022 the club announced they had withdrawn from the league and the Football Association of Wales confirmed the club's results from the league that season has been expunged. The club subsequently failed to apply for tier 2 or tier 3 licences, leaving them unable to play in any Football Association of Wales league for the 2022–23 season.
Bangor City F.C. was one of Wales' older football clubs, and has played in European football, the English pyramid system and the Cymru Premier.
The club was a founding member of the North Wales Coast League in 1893, the Welsh National League in 1921, the North Wales Combination in 1930, the Welsh League North in 1935, the Northern Premier League in 1968, the Alliance Premier League (now National League) in 1979, and in 1992 the League of Wales.
In 1947 and 1950 Bangor challenged for election to the football leagues Third Division North yet failed on each occasion. In the 1961–62 season, they won the Welsh Cup, and consequently entered in the European Cup Winners' Cup for the first time. In the first round, they were drawn against the Italian Cup winners, Napoli. In the first leg, played at Farrar Road, Bangor won 2–0; three weeks later, in front of a crowd of 80,000 in Naples, the result was 3–1 in Napoli's favour. A playoff had to be played, at Arsenal's Highbury Stadium, in London and AS Napoli won 2–1.
At the end of 1977–78 when Southport was relegated from the English Football League Fourth Division, Bangor City, Boston United and Wigan Athletic were considered for promotion in its place. Due to Wigan Athletic having installed crush barriers, they were elected ahead of Bangor and Boston in the same year Bangor was invited to the 1977–78 Anglo-Italian Cup.