Caernarvon Athletic F.C. was a Welsh

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team.

History

The club was formed after the Great War and until 1921 played in the

North Wales Coast League The North Wales Coast League was a North Walian association football league that existed from 1893 until 1921. After the Welsh Senior League, which started in 1890, it was the second association football league formed in North Wales. There wa ...

and thereafter the

Welsh National League (North) The Welsh National League (North) was a football league in north and central Wales which formed the first level of the Welsh football league system between 1921 and 1930, and was part of a short-lived plan to create a national football league in W ...

Division Two (West), with mixed fortune. In 1926, however, a limited company was formed and a full-time manager and professional team engaged. The club met with immediate success, winning the Welsh National League Division One championship in 1926–27, ahead of

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and

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, and repeating the feat in 1929–30 having been pipped to the title by Connah's Quay & Shotton 12 months earlier. Caernarvon Athletic are still remembered for their FA Cup run in 1929 when they defeated

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before going out to

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in a second round replay, the first game at the Oval attracting a crowd of some 9,000. In 1930, however, the club went into liquidation but two years later a re-formed team won the Welsh Combination before quitting over problems in using the Oval.

Honours

Division One **Champions: 1926–27, 1929-30 **Runners-up: 1928–29 *

Division Two West **Runners-up: 1922–23

References

{{Reflist Defunct football clubs in Wales Sport in Gwynedd Caernarfon Welsh National League (North) clubs North Wales Coast League clubs 1919 establishments in Wales Association football clubs established in 1919 1930 disestablishments in Wales Association football clubs disestablished in 1930