Meliden Football Club is a Welsh

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team based in Meliden,

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. The team currently play in the North Wales Coast East Football League Premier Division, which is at the fourth tier of the Welsh football league system.

History

The club reformed for the 2007–08 season and initially joined the

Clwyd Football League The Clwyd Football League was a football league formed in 1974 as an amalgamation of the Dyserth League and the Halkyn Mountain League. The top division was at different periods at the second, third and fourth levels of the Welsh football leagu ...

before gaining promotion to the

Welsh Alliance League The Welsh Alliance Football League (formerly the ''Lock Stock Welsh Alliance Football League'', for sponsorship reasons) was a football league formed in 1984, and discontinued in 2020 following the reorganisation of the Welsh football pyramid for ...

in 2012. They played seven seasons in Division Two, with their best finishing position being fifth in the first season. In March 2019 the club announced that at the end of the 2018–19 season they would resign from the

and rejoin the

Vale of Clwyd and Conwy Football League The Vale of Clwyd and Conwy Football League ( cy, Dyffryn Clwyd & Chonwy) was a football league formed in 2011 following the split of the Clwyd Football League, which itself was formed in 1974 as an amalgamation of the Dyserth and the Halkyn Moun ...

. They finished the 2019–20 season in sixth place in a season curtailed by the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2020 the team was accepted into the Premier Division of the new North Wales Coast East Football League. In 2023 Meliden have played their way into two semi finals, the furthest they have come in both competitions (Cookson league cup and NWCFA intermediate challenge Cup) sadly losing both semi finals but still an achievement for a young Meliden side led by one of the youngest managers around Deej Hobson (24).

Honours

Premier Division – Runners-up: 2011–12 *

Division One - Runners-up: 2009–10 * Clwyd Cup – Winners: 2011–12 * Combination Cup – Winners: 2011–12

External links

Club official TwitterClub official Facebook

References

Football clubs in Wales Welsh Alliance League clubs North Wales Coast Football League clubs Sport in Denbighshire Vale of Clwyd and Conwy Football League clubs Clwyd Football League clubs {{wales-footyclub-stub