Aberdare Town Football Club is a

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club that currently play in the

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Premier Division. Their ground is situated on Cardiff Road, Aberdare, between the suburb of

Aberaman Aberaman is a village near Aberdare in the county borough of Rhondda Cynon Taf, south Wales. It was heavily dependent on the coal industry and the population, as a result, grew rapidly in the late nineteenth century. Most of the industry has now ...

and the village of

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. They are a former member of the

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. Aberaman were founded in 1892 as Aberaman Athletic and joined the Southern League in 1919. In 1926 they merged with nearby Aberdare Athletic, then of the

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to form Aberdare & Aberaman Athletic. However the merged club dropped out of the Football League in 1927 and the arrangement came to an end the following year; Aberaman broke off and started competing as a single club again, while Aberdare promptly folded. Aberaman continued to compete as a single club until 1945, when another combined Aberdare & Aberaman Athletic FC were re-formed. Once again, the merged clubs only lasted two years, and Aberaman went their separate way in 1947, and have continued in that form to this day. From 2004 to 2009, the club was known as ENTO Aberaman Athletic due to a sponsorship agreement. The agreement ran out after the 2008–09 season, and the club reverted to its original name. For the 2012–13 season the club adopted the name Aberdare Town F.C. At the end of the 2019–20 season the club were relegated to the

Premier Division.

References

External links

Official site
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