The club's current position comes within 15 years of their being one of the top sides in Welsh football, winning the old format Welsh Football League in 1991 and 1992, but being relegated in 1993 after just one season in the newly formed League of Wales.

The club suffered relegation from the Welsh Football League in 2001 and has since slipped down through the next two divisions into its current position, although the future is now looking brighter.

plays in the Welsh Football League Division Two at the Chippenham Sports Ground, located at Blestium Street.

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

Their membership of the Football League coincided with that of a team from another Welsh town Merthyr Town.

He would hold the post until 1954 becoming the longest reigning President to date, taking the membership of the organisation from twelve up to 85 nations, despite losing the membership of the English, Welsh and Scottish Football Associations during the early years.

For historical reasons, two Welsh clubs ( Cardiff City, and Swansea City ) play in the English Football League.

* Rugby has a number of rugby union teams including ; the Rugby Lions, Rugby Welsh, Rugby St. Andrews RFC, Newbold, AEI ( Rugby ) Rugby Football Club and Old Laurentian RFC.

The three main football teams in Cwmbran are Cwmbrân Town, Cwmbrân Celtic and Croesyceilog who all compete in the Welsh Football League.

Newport Rugby Football Club is a Welsh rugby union club based in the city of Newport, South Wales.

Arthur Joseph " Monkey " Gould ( 10 October 1864 – 2 January 1919 ) was a Welsh international rugby union centre and full back who was most associated as a club player with Newport Rugby Football Club.

On 8 December 2010, in response to a call from the Football Supporter's Federation, he introduced a bill to parliament to introduce safe standing areas into English and Welsh football, the first of its kind since the Taylor Report.

Newport County Association Football Club is a Welsh football club based in Newport, South Wales.

Neath Rugby Football Club, the famous and very successful " Welsh All Blacks ", play at The Gnoll who have managed to win 4 consecutive titles in the Semi Professional Principality Premiership and 3 Swalec Cup titles ( Previously known as Schweppes and Konica Minolta Cups ) and are now competing in a new competition The British and Irish Cup founded in 2009.

gained promotion from the Welsh Football League First Division, and to the Welsh Premier League.

Currently, the full sponsored name of the league is the Corbett Sports Welsh Premier Football League.

The league was formed in October 1991 by Alun Evans, Secretary General of the Football Association of Wales ( FAW ), as he believed that the Welsh international football team was under threat from FIFA.

Because of poor north-south transport links within Wales, it has always been easier for Welsh clubs to travel east-west so Welsh clubs tended to look east to England for competitors and many of the top semi-professional sides in Wales played in the English football league system ; Bangor City were founder members of the Football Conference ( then the Alliance Premier League ) in 1979 and reached the FA Trophy final in 1984, before transferring to the new League of Wales in 1992.

One option to extend participation may be for the Welsh clubs playing in the English Football League to field reserve or representative teams in the Welsh Premier League ; however this would also affect European qualification as there would be a representation conflict between the existing WPL clubs and the major Welsh clubs which qualify through the English league system ( see below ).

Clubs are promoted to the Welsh Premier League from the two regional feeder leagues ; the Cymru Alliance in the north and the Welsh Football League Division One in the south.

At the end of the 2005-06 season, the Crows were close to dropping out of the Welsh top flight for the first time since the League's formation.

For many years the club struggled in the top flight of Welsh football but, after being taken over by a consortium led by former player Peter Parry, a significant improvement in results saw Rhyl become one of the Welsh Premier League's leading clubs.

Mold Alexandra won the Welsh National League's Presidents Cup on 9 August 2008 beating Brymbo 5-1 at Brymbo, the scorers for Mold where Gary Burns ( 15 ), Owain Roberts ( 20 ), Darren Pritchard ( 65 ), Wayne Craig ( 86 ) and Dave Bryan ( 89 ) and for the record Brymbo's came from Shaun Edwards ( 27 ).

During the early days of the Rhymney Valley and Glamorgan League's there was also the South Wales League ( 1890-1911 ) but this competition had no connection with the origins of the Welsh Football League.

The Sub-Roman or Post-Roman history of Dumnonia comes from a variety of sources and is considered exceedingly difficult to interpret given that historical fact, legend and confused pseudo-history are compounded by a variety of sources in Middle Welsh and Latin.

Gwynfor Evans named his history of Wales Land of my fathers: 2, 000 years of Welsh history.

Later 19th century historians such as William Forbes Skene brought new standards of accuracy to early Scottish history, while Celticists such as Whitley Stokes and Kuno Meyer cast a critical eye over Welsh and Irish sources.

As in England, Welsh history and archaeological finds dating back to the Bronze Age reveal not only reading and writing, but also alchemy, botany, advanced maths and science.

He dismissed the idea of a Welsh identity, saying that " between the mid-sixteenth century and the mid-eighteenth century Wales had practically no history at all, and even before that it was the history of rural brigands who have been ennobled by being called princes ".

In 2011 Kinnock took part in the BBC Wales programme Coming Home about his Welsh family history, the programme was broadcast on 30 November 2011.

* The first Eisteddfod ( a Welsh choral competition with a history spanning many centuries ) held outside of Wales was held in Chicago at the exposition.

The year 383 denotes a significant point in Welsh history, remembered in literature and considered to be the foundation point of several medieval royal dynasties.

: a history of the Welsh ( Black Raven Press ) ISBN 0-85159-003-9

* Gathering the Jewels, the website for Welsh cultural history

* Welsh history timeline

During his time at Swansea he produced some of his most exciting works of literary criticism: A School of Welsh Augustans ( 1924 ), Williams Pantycelyn ( 1927 ), and Braslun o hanes llenyddiaeth Gymraeg ( An outline history of Welsh literature ) ( 1932 ).

The prominent place of Macsen in history, Welsh legend and in the Matter of Britain means he is often a character or referred to in historical and Arthurian fiction.

In 2009 Jones took part in the BBC Wales programme Coming Home about his Welsh family history.

In 2008, Newton-John took part in the BBC Wales programme Coming Home about her Welsh family history.

It is generally agreed today that his most distinguished works are those dealing with Wales and Ireland, with his two books on his beloved Wales the most important: Itinerarium Kambriae and Descriptio Kambriae which tell us much about Welsh history and geography and reflect on the Cultural relationship between the Welsh and the English.

Cadfael has, however, voluntarily chosen to join an English monastery rather than a Welsh one, and make his home in England – although close to the borders with Wales-his secular history having made him too cosmopolitan to blend in his own homeland.

He also appears in Phillip Mann's alternate history series A Land Fit for Heroes, Judith Tarr's fantasy series, The Hound and the Falcon and the Alamut series, Robert Carter's " The Language of Stones " series, the novel American Gods by Neil Gaiman, the books of the Welsh author Jenny Sullivan and in Jenny Nimmo's Snow Spider Trilogy.

She has a second home in the Welsh mountains where, she claims, the history inspires her and provides material for her novels.

His fascination with Welsh folk music led to an investigation of the history of the music and particularly the harpists who would often accompany then.

This history traces the evolution of the village through successive periods beginning with the original English, Scottish and Welsh settlers and the establishment of their religious, cultural and social patterns, to the arrival of French-Canadian workers in the 1870s and 1880s, followed by Polish, Italian and Syro-Lebanese immigrants between 1890 and 1920.