AFC Newport County

Newport County
	Newport County
Basic data
Surname	Newport County Association Football Club
Seat	Newport , Wales
founding	1912 (founded in 1989)
Colours	black yellow
Website	newport-county.co.uk
First soccer team
Head coach	Michael Flynn
Venue	Rodney Parade , Newport
Places	7,012
league	EFL League Two
2019/20	14th place

The AFC Newport County is a football club in Newport , Wales . The club is currently active in the EFL League Two , the fourth highest English division. The club played mostly in professional leagues until 1988, since then Newport County has been active in the levels of non-league football .

Club history

The club was founded in 1912 and started in the second division of the Southern Football League . The 1919/20 season played the team in the first division of the same league, as many clubs moved to the newly formed Third Division of the Football League. Newport County was also included in the third division of the Football League the following year. The club played there for many years, in 1938/39 Newport won the Third Division championship. After the game operation was suspended due to the Second World War, Newport took part in the Football League Second Division in the 1946/47 season, but had to relegate again to the Football League Third Division South after the year. It was followed by many years in the Football League Third Division and the Football League Fourth Division, in which the team played consistently without significant success except for a return to the Third Division and subsequent relegation in the Fourth Division.

In 1980 the club won the Welsh Cup for the first time . In the following season Newport reached the quarter-finals of the European Cup Winners' Cup , in which they were only barely defeated by FC Carl Zeiss Jena (0: 1, 2: 2). In the late 1980s, the club had to relegate to the ninth-rate Hellenic Football League due to insolvency, making Newport County for the first time in 68 years no longer represented in professional football. After only one season, he was promoted to Division One Midlands and in 1999 in the seventh-class Southern Football League Premier Division. As part of a major reorganization of English amateur football, the Welsh club was admitted to Conference South in 2004 . While the club achieved moderate placings in the first two seasons of the Conference North, in the 2009/10 season it was the first-placed with 103 points to rise to the Conference National . A 2-0 win over Wrexham on May 5, 2013 in the Conference Final at Wembley Stadium succeeded in returning to professional football with promotion to Football League Two .

In 2018, Newport County won 2-1 in the third round of the FA Cup against Leeds United and was drawn against Tottenham Hotspur in the fourth round . On January 27th against Hotspur at home a 1-1, which Newport forced a replay at Wembley.