They played their football league games at the Aberdare Athletic Ground and were known as the Darians.

The reserve team carried on as Aberaman and Aberdare Athletic for one more season but are now known as just Aberaman Athletic F. C.

The Aberdare Athletic Ground was the venue of the first rugby league international between Wales and the New Zealand All Golds on New Year's Day 1908, which was won by the Welsh 9-8.

Aberdare Athletic Football Club were a Welsh football club founded in 1893 and based in Aberdare.

Aberdare Athletic, Cardiff City, Merthyr Town, Newport County, Swansea City and Wrexham have all been members of the Football League.

Inspired by Stanley Cowie, the title was clinched in early May, and yet hopes of Barry being able to play in the Football League were scuppered just a month later, when their application failed and Charlton Athletic and Aberdare Athletic were elected instead.

Two new clubs are elected to this division: Aberdare Athletic ( 1921 – 1927 ) and Charlton Athletic.

The exceptions to this were Crystal Palace, who were promoted to the Second Division, Grimsby Town who transferred to the Third Division North and Aberdare Athletic and Charlton Athletic who joined for the first time.

By 1928 after three years in the wilderness football enthusiasts in the town including the groundsman / caretaker of Stebonheath Park Jack Goldsborough who had joined the club in 1922 as a player / trainer resolved the resurrect the club once more and fate decreed that they were able to succeed when they took over the fixtures of Aberdare Athletic in the Welsh League, another club by this time who were in dire straits and themselves had had to resign from the Welsh League for the same reason as Llanelli.

Aberdare () is an industrial town in the Cynon Valley area of Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales, at the confluence of the Rivers Dare ( Dâr ) and Cynon.

Aberdare is south-west of Merthyr Tydfil, north-west of Cardiff and east-north-east of Swansea.

With the ecclesiastical parishes of St Fagan's ( Trecynon ) and Aberaman carved out of the ancient parish, Aberdare had 12 Anglican churches and one Roman Catholic church, built in 1866 in Monk Street near the site of a cell attached to Penrhys monastery, and at one time had over 50 Nonconformist chapels.

There are several cairns and the remains of a circular British encampment on the mountain between Aberdare and Merthyr.

Hirwaun moor, 4 miles to the north west of Aberdare, was according to tradition the scene of a battle at which Rhys ap Tewdwr, prince of Dyfed, was defeated by the allied forces of the Norman Robert Fitzhamon and Iestyn ap Gwrgant, the last Welsh prince of Glamorgan.

Coal mined in Aberdare parish rose from in 1844 to in 1850, and the coal trade, which after 1875 was the chief support of the town, soon reached huge dimensions.

Steam coal was subsequently found in the Rhondda and further west, but many of the great companies of the Welsh coal industry's Gilded Age started operation in Aberdare and the lower Cynon Valley, including those of Samuel Thomas, David Davies and Sons, Nixon's Navigation and Powell Duffryn.

On May 11, 1919, an extensive fire broke out on Cardiff Street, Aberdare.

Aberdare, during its boom years, was considered a centre of Welsh culture: it hosted the first National Eisteddfod in 1861, again in 1885, and in 1956 at Aberdare Park where the Gorsedd standing stones still exist.

Aberdare was the birthplace of the Second World War poet Alun Lewis, and there is a plaque commemorating him, including a quotation from his poem The Mountain over Aberdare.

In the town centre is St Elvan's Church, a Church in Wales church at the heart of the Parish of Aberdare.

In the Parish of Aberdare St Fagan, churches serve the communities of Trecynon, Cwmdare and Llwydcoed-St Fagans, St Luke's and St James's respectively.

Aberdare Rugby Football Club are a rugby union team formed in 1890 which still play in Aberdare today at the Ynys Stadium.

The town is served by Aberdare railway station and Aberdare bus station, opposite each other in the town centre.

* St. John the Baptist School ( Aberdare )

* Guido van de Kamp-Dutch former Dunfermline Athletic F. C goalkeeper

* Lee Simon Butler-Former Dunfermline Athletic F. C goalkeeper, and current goalkeeping coach at Doncaster Rovers F. C.

St Patrick's Athletic F. C.

Non-league sides include Spartans and Edinburgh City, who play in the East of Scotland League along with Civil Service Strollers F. C., Lothian Thistle F. C., Edinburgh University A. F. C., Leith Athletic F. C., Tynecastle F. C., Craigroyston F. C.

He then had a short stint with League of Ireland side St. Patrick's Athletic F. C.

In one case, The Who were due to perform at The Valley, the London ( home of Charlton Athletic F. C .).

and Athletic Grounds Ltd " ( Everton Athletic for short ), the club became Liverpool F. C.

In 1999 Jackson had attended a league game against Wigan Athletic F. C.

There are sports clubs catering for the usual range of sports, among them football ( Dover Athletic F. C.

That year the duo, billed as Squeeze, released the non-album single " Down In The Valley " as a fundraising single for Charlton Athletic F. C.

* St John Fisher Catholic High schools in Harrogate, Wigan, Dewsbury, Newcastle-under-Lyme and Bracken Ridge ( Qld, Australia ) are named after him, as is Purley John Fisher RFC and Fisher Athletic F. C.

* Scarborough Athletic F. C., a football club created by the supporters ' trust of the old club

Carshalton has two football clubs: Carshalton Athletic F. C.

were a once successful non-league side who groundshared with Charlton Athletic F. C.

The largest football club in the borough is Charlton Athletic F. C.

the Athletic program at Carleton is considered an integral part of the activities of the College and operates under the same budgetary procedure and controls as the academic work.

Carleton is a member of the Midwest Collegiate Athletic Conference and abides by its eligibility rules.

This Association, organized in 1920, is affiliated with the Athletic Federation of College Women.

It was I who paid for our little home, the food, the liquor, the servants -- even Letch's bills at his tailor and the Los Angeles Athletic Club.

The last couple of years the Bears management got the business from the `` Living Room Athletic Club '' when games were cut off.

The club was originally founded as a football team in 1891, with the name Buenos Aires English High School although it was obliged to change its name to Alumni Athletic Club ( the name was proposed by a former student of the English High School ) in 1901.

Since then, Alumni has played at the highest level of Argentinian rugby and its rivalry with Belgrano Athletic Club is one of the fiercest local derbies in Buenos Aires.

* 1840 – Alexander Cameron Sim, Scottish pharmacist and businessman, founded Kobe Regatta & Athletic Club ( d. 1900 )

In 1984, the first official representative matches of International Rules were played, and these were played annually each October between the AFL and the Gaelic Athletic Association, also known as the GAA, between 1998 and 2006.

* Gymnasia: ( Greek for " Athletic ", with the connotation of nakedness ) A courtesan from the house of Lycus with whom Pseudolus falls in love.

In 1866, the NABBP investigated Athletic of Philadelphia for paying three players including Lip Pike, but ultimately took no action against either the club or the players.

Athletic jump smashes, where players jump upwards for a steeper smash angle, are a common and spectacular element of elite men's doubles play.

He next accepted a post as a director with Wigan Athletic, then became a member of Manchester United's board of directors in 1984 and remains one as of June 2011.