The New Saints FC
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| Surname | The New Saints Football Club | ||
| Seat | Llansantffraid-ym-Mechain | ||
| founding | 2003 | ||
| Colours | green-white-blue | ||
| president | Mike Harris | ||
| Website | tnsfc.co.uk | ||
| First soccer team | |||
| Head coach | Scott Ruscoe | ||
| Venue | Park Hall , Oswestry | ||
| Places | 1000 | ||
| league | Cymru Premier | ||
| 2019/20 | 2nd place | ||
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The New Saints Football Club , often just called TNS , is a Welsh football club from Llansantffraid-ym-Mechain , a village on the border with England . With twelve titles, the club is the Welsh record champions.
history
The association emerged in 2003 from the merger of Total Network Solutions FC from Llansantffraid and Oswestry Town from the neighboring English city of Oswestry .
Total Network Solutions
The club was founded in 1959 as Llansantffraid FC . The club began playing in the fourth Welsh division and was able to win the championship seven times. However, it was not until 1990 that they were chosen to be promoted and thus left the league. The club managed as second in the third division and then champions of the second division of the direct march through to the League of Wales , the highest Welsh division.
In 1996, an IT company from neighboring Oswestry called Total Network Solutions signed a £ 250,000 sponsorship deal with the club and the club was renamed Total Network Solutions Llansantffraid FC . In the same year succeeded by a win on penalties against Barry Town the victory in the Welsh Cup and thus the first qualification for the European Cup . In the European Cup Winners' Cup , the Polish representative Ruch Chorzów was too strong and after a 1-1 draw in Wales won the second leg 5-0. Since then they have qualified several times, the games are usually played in the stadiums of Newtown FC or AFC Wrexham . In the duel with Manchester City in 2003, however, they avoided the Millennium Stadium . In 2000, the club was two points ahead of Barry Town for the first time Welsh champions.
Oswestry Town
Oswestry Town was founded in 1860 as Oswestry United , making it one of the oldest football clubs in the world. In 1876 they joined as a founding member of the Football Association of Wales . For years they were the only English club to play in Wales. In 1884 and 1901, the club won the Welsh Cup under the old name. The club never got any major successes after that, in the 1980s they got into financial difficulties and had to stop playing. Re-established in 1995, it returned to the Cymru Alliance, the second highest division. There they became champions straight away, but could not show a stadium that complied with the rules of the League of Wales and thus had to continue to compete in second class. Only in 2000, when again the second division championship succeeded and they moved to another stadium, promotion was allowed. There, in the following years, they only narrowly escaped descent.
After the merger: The New Saints
On June 7, 2003, the two clubs announced that they would merge. After the Welsh federation gave its approval, UEFA initially refused to approve, as both clubs came from different associations. A short time later she agreed nevertheless, as she was made aware of the history of Oswestry Town, which had always participated in gaming operations in Wales. Because of the delay, the League of Wales played only 17 teams in the 2003/04 season, as Oswestry Town was still registered. Oswestry's participation was classified as "dormant" for the rest of the season after the merger.
In 2005, the merged club celebrated its first success when they won the double. After the reigning Champions League winners FC Liverpool missed the re-qualification for the Champions League over the league as fifth, TNS offered the English a playoff. UEFA banned this, and ironically, after UEFA had given Liverpool FC special permission to participate, the two clubs were drawn together.
In 2006 the main sponsor was taken over by the BT Group and the contract with the association was then terminated. Then the question of the naming arose and since one traditionally had the nickname The Saints , the name The New Saints was chosen .
In 2009 the club qualified for participation in the UEFA Europa League . In the first qualifying round, however, they lost the first and second leg with 1: 2 each against the Icelandic representative Fram Reykjavík .
Between 2011 and 2017, The New Saints won seven championships in a row and is the record champion in Wales with a total of twelve championship titles.
successes
- Welsh Championship (13): 2000 (Llansantffraid FC), 2005 , 2006 , 2007 , 2010 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019
- Welsh Cup (7): 1996 (Llansantffraid FC), 2005, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2019
- Welsh League Cup (6): 1995 (Llansantffraid FC), 2006, 2009, 2015, 2016, 2017
Records
On December 30, 2016, the Welsh record champions improved the world record set by Ajax Amsterdam in 1972 with currently 27 competitive game wins in a row.
Web links
- Official website (English)
Footnotes
- ↑ Only fifth in the league: CL: Welsh champions Cardiff offers play-off games ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: Rheinische Post . May 27, 2005
- ↑ Champions League - Liverpool can defend the title . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . June 10, 2005
- ↑ 26 competitive game victories in a row: The New Saints equalize world record
