Tregaron Turfs F.C.

Tregaron Turfs
Full nameTregaron Turfs Football Club
Founded1971
GroundSchool Field
LeagueCentral Wales Southern Division
2024–25Central Wales Southern Division, 3rd of 17

Tregaron Turfs Football Club is a Welsh football team based in Tregaron, Ceredigion, Wales. The team play in the Central Wales Southern Division.

History

A team known as the Caron Turfs is recorded from shortly after World War I, with a match against Ystrad Meurig played on 6 December 1919.[1] By the 1930s the team was referred to as Tregaron Turfs.[2]

Tregaron appeared in the 1947–48 Welsh Cup.[3] They won the 1955–56 Aberystwyth League[4] and 1958–59 Cardiganshire League titles.[5]

The current Tregaron Turfs club was founded in 1971.[6]

The club played in the Aberystwyth League before the 2010–11 season when they joined the newly created Mid Wales Football League Division Two. They only stayed in the league for two seasons.[7]

The club then returned to the Aberystwyth League. They were Division One champions in their first season back, finishing one point ahead of Borth United.[8] In 2018–19 they were runners-up to Llanilar in the Aberystwyth League Cup,[9] and in the following season they regained the Aberystwyth League title.[10]

In July 2020 the club was announced as one of the tier 4 clubs in the restructured West Division of the Mid Wales Football League.[11] For the 2020–21 season the club was set to support the Premier League's No Room for Racism campaign by wearing the logo on their kit. The chairman and coach Dilwyn Daniel said he believed they need to "raise awareness" and "make it known that this issue is everywhere", and that the club had been affected by verbal racism towards one of their players a few years prior.[12]

In 2022 league reorganisation meant they were moved into the newly-formed Southern Division.[7] In 2022–23 they were runners-up in the J. Emrys Morgan Cup, losing 2–1 to Barmouth & Dyffryn United in the final.[13] In the following season they were Central Wales League Cup winners, coming back from 2–0 down to win 3–2 against Kerry in the final.[14][15]

Reserve team

Tregaron Turfs has a reserve team. Dafydd Iolo managed the team for three years until 2023. In August 2023, Alun Davies was named as their new manager, with Caradog Daniel as his assistant.[16] For the 2024–25 season they left the Aberystwyth League to play in the Ceredigion League, where they won Division Three in their first season.[17]

Women's team

Tregaron Turfs have a women's team. After winning six Ceredigion Ladies League titles and seven Ceredigion League Cups, they joined the new Central Wales North Women's League in 2025.[18]

Honours

References

  1. ^ "Tregaron" - Welsh Gazette, Thursday 11 December 1919 (page 5)
  2. ^ "Borth" - Welsh Gazette, Thursday 29 December 1938 (page 8)
  3. ^ SEASON 1947/48 from the Welsh Football Data Archive
  4. ^ "Final Aberystwyth & District League Division 1 Table 1955/56". www.ceredigionleague.co.uk.
  5. ^ "Final Division 1 Table 1958/59". www.ceredigionleague.co.uk.
  6. ^ "Mid Wales League West review". 26 July 2020.
  7. ^ a b "Tregaron Turfs". Football Club History Database. Retrieved 25 August 2021.
  8. ^ Aberystwyth & District League tables 2012–13 from the Welsh Football Data Archive
  9. ^ "Llanilar celebrate cup final triumph". County Times. 16 May 2019.
  10. ^ Davies, Dylan. "Tregaron crowned District champions". Cambrian News. Retrieved 25 August 2021.
  11. ^ Grosvenor, Gavin (24 July 2020). "Central Wales FA confirm Mid Wales League line ups". Powys County Times. Retrieved 24 August 2021.
  12. ^ https://www.countytimes.co.uk/sport/18754312.tregaron-wear-support-anti-racism-movement-sleeves/
  13. ^ Grosvenor, Gavin (7 April 2023). "Magpies treasure silverware as Barmouth taste cup glory". Powys County Times. Retrieved 19 May 2023.
  14. ^ "Garner fires Tregaron Turfs to Central Wales League Cup glory to deny Kerry". County Times. 9 May 2024.
  15. ^ "Tregaron Turfs stage remarkable comeback to win the cup". 7 May 2024.
  16. ^ "Tregaron Turfs announce new reserves manager". 12 August 2023.
  17. ^ "Ceredigion League: Tregaron Turfs crowned Division Three champions". 11 March 2025.
  18. ^ "Here it is....the line up for the new Tier 3 Central Wales North Women's League". 22 August 2025.
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