The Cymru North is a regional

football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly c ...

league in Wales, covering the northern half of the country. It has clubs with

semi-professional Semi-professional sports are sports in which athletes are not participating on a full-time basis, but still receive some payment. Semi-professionals are not amateur because they receive regular payment from their team, but generally at a consid ...

status and together with the

Cymru South The Cymru South is a regional football league in Wales, covering the southern half of the country. It has clubs with semi-professional status and together with the Cymru North, it forms the second tier of the Welsh football league system. The fi ...

, it forms the second tier of the

Welsh football league system The Welsh football league system (or pyramid) is a series of football leagues with regular promotion and relegation between them. While most Welsh clubs play in the Welsh pyramid and most clubs in that pyramid are Welsh, five Welsh clubs play ...

. The first year of its operation was 2019–20 with the

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owning and administering the tier 2 leagues for the first time. These changes followed from a review of the Welsh Football Pyramid. Prior to 2019, the equivalent league was the

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, covering North and Central Wales.

The 2019–20 season

The league was a seventeen club league and in its inaugural season featured

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, returning to the Welsh Football pyramid.English-tier club Colwyn Bay to return to Welsh leagues
BBC Sport, 7 March 2019

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folded during the season and were expelled from the league with their results expunged. The season was not completed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, so the final league positions were decided on a points per game basis.

Member clubs for the 2022–23 season

Champions

* 2019-20:

Prestatyn Town Prestatyn Town Football Club ( cy, Clwb Pêl Droed Tref Prestatyn) is a Wales, Welsh association football, football club based in Prestatyn, Denbighshire who play in the Cymru North. History Early years Records show that football has been play ...

* 2020-21: ''Competition cancelled'' * 2021-22: Airbus UK Broughton

Promoted to Cymru Premier

* 2019-20: Flint Town ''(runners-up)'' * 2020-21: ''Competition cancelled'' * 2021-22: Airbus UK Broughton

Relegated into Cymru North from Cymru Premier

* 2019-20:

Airbus UK Broughton F.C. Airbus UK Broughton Football Club ( cy, Clwb Pêl-droed Airbus DU Brychdyn) is a professional football club based in Broughton, Flintshire, Wales. They had their origins as the works team of the Airbus UK aerospace factory where the wings of ...

* 2020-21: ''Competition cancelled'' * 2021-22: Cefn Druids

Relegated from Cymru North

* 2019-20:

Porthmadog Porthmadog (; ), originally Portmadoc until 1974 and locally as "Port", is a Welsh coastal town and community in the Eifionydd area of Gwynedd and the historic county of Caernarfonshire. It lies east of Criccieth, south-west of Blaenau Ffest ...

Corwen Corwen is a town and community in the county of Denbighshire in Wales. Historically, Corwen is part of the county of Merionethshire. Corwen stands on the banks of the River Dee beneath the Berwyn mountains. The town is situated west of Llango ...

and Llanfair United * 2020-21: ''Competition cancelled'' * 2021-22: Llangefni Town and Llanrhaeadr

Promoted into Cymru North

* 2019-20: Llanidloes Town, Holyhead Hotspur and Holywell Town * 2020-21: ''Competition cancelled'' * 2021-22:

Chirk Chirk ( cy, Y Waun) is a town and community in Wrexham County Borough, Wales, south of Wrexham, between it and Oswestry. At the 2011 census, it had a population of 4,468. Historically in the traditional county of Denbighshire, and later Clwy ...

, Mold Alexandra and

References

External links

Official site of the JD Cymru NorthSOCCERWAY
(FAW Championship summary) {{UEFA second leagues 2 Sports leagues established in 2019 2019 establishments in Wales

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Semi-professional sports leagues

The 2019–20 season

Member clubs for the 2022–23 season

Champions

Promoted to Cymru Premier

Relegated into Cymru North from Cymru Premier

Relegated from Cymru North

Promoted into Cymru North

See also

References

External links