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

The 2003 – 04 season, saw an array of young players join the club like Gareth Evans, who eventually left to join Football League Two club Wrexham.

The Ladies will be playing in the North Wales Women's Football League along with teams such as Wrexham Ladies, Caenarfon and Llandudno Junction, for the first time in 2011 / 12.

Provisionally known as the " Cambrian Football Association ", the Football Association of Wales was founded at a meeting held on 2 February 1876 at the Wynnstay Arms Hotel in Wrexham, initially to formalise the arrangements for the forthcoming match against Scotland.

The club also reached the semi-final of the Welsh Senior Cup before going down to Football League side Chester at Wrexham ’ s Racecourse ground.

McGregor previously played in The Football League for Wrexham, where he began his career before transfers to Burnley, Blackpool and Port Vale, making more than 500 senior appearances in total.

On 20 April 2011, the Football Association of Wales invited these six clubs to rejoin the Welsh Cup for the 2011 – 12 season but only Newport County, Wrexham and Merthyr Town accepted.

The town has a professional football team, Wrexham F. C., who compete in the English Football Conference as of 2012.

Wrexham was the site of the headquarters of the Football Association of Wales from its formation in 1876 until relocation to Cardiff in 1991.

However in the run up to the new season the Celtic Crusaders franchise was sold by owner Leighton Samuel to Wrexham Football Club parent company, Wrexham Village Ltd and the side moved to Wrexham, playing home fixtures at The Racecourse Ground.

Wrexham Football Club () is a Welsh football club based in Wrexham, North Wales.

In 1876, the newly formed Football Association of Wales saw Wales play their first international match, against Scotland at The West of Scotland Cricket Club, Partick, featuring Edwin Cross and Alfred Davies as the first of many Wrexham F. C.

In 1921 Wrexham were elected to the newly formed Third Division North of the Football League.

Two years after their promotion, Wrexham were relegated to the Fourth Division again, and in 1966 they finished rock-bottom at 92nd in the Football League after an extremely disappointing season.

The 1976 – 77 season saw Wrexham again beat First Division opposition in both Cup competitions as they went on another cup run, defeating Tottenham Hotspur in the Football League Cup and Sunderland in the FA Cup, however the league season was a traumatic one as the club, on the verge of promotion to the second division with only four matches left to play, required just three points to reach their goal, and unbelievably they missed out after a poor run of form.

Their league performance was even more dire than the previous year, and by the time Bobby Roberts was finally removed from his post, Wrexham were rock-bottom of the entire Football League.

5 May 2007: Ryan Valentine scores the goal against Boston that keeps Wrexham in the Football League5 May 2007: Scoreboard showing the final score of game that kept Wrexham in the Football League and condemned Boston United to the Conference At the start of the 21st century the club was dogged with many problems off the pitch, including then chairman Alex Hamilton, attempting to get the club evicted from the stadium so that he could use and sell it for his own development purposes – the saga involved the sale of the Racecourse Ground to a separate company owned by Hamilton immediately after he became the club's chairman.

Despite their financial troubles, Wrexham went on to win the 2004 – 05 Football League Trophy by defeating Southend United 2 – 0 after extra time, in Wrexham's first appearance at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff.

The Club did not hesitate to offer the position to ex Wrexham and Chester City professional Jon Cross who was already involved as a player and a coach at Alyn Park.

The stadium is also home to North Wales ' largest athletics club, Wrexham Amateur Athletics Club.

* Basketball – Wrexham Raiders Basketball Club play at Glyndwr's Plas Coch sports arena.

* Golf – Wrexham has 4 golf courses: Moss Valley Golf Club, Plassey Golf Club, Wrexham Golf Club and Clays Farm Golf Club.

The club was formed by members of the Wrexham Cricket Club, who wanted a sporting activity for the winter months, on 28 September 1872 during a meeting held at the Turf Hotel in Wrexham ( this is despite the club's modern badge stating they were formed in 1873 ).

In late January 2006, a new company was formed called Wrexham & Shropshire.

In 2006, he was appointed a vice president of Wrexham A. F. C.

Under the stewardship of former Wrexham manager, Dixie McNeil, The Ancients recorded slightly more respectable league positions for the following 2 seasons, namely 14th in 2005 – 06 and 13th in 2006 – 07.

The 2006 – 07 season started well for Wrexham, as they went 8 games unbeaten, with included a 4 – 1 away win against Championship side Sheffield Wednesday and were in the play-off places after the addition of numerous new faces.

He returned to Wrexham for £ 210, 000 ( a club record as of December 2006 ).

After Wrexham escaped relegation from League Two at the end of the 2006 – 07 season, this agreement was extended.

Cardiff made him available for transfer but he did not take up offers to talk with Millwall and Rotherham and joined Wrexham in February 2007 on loan for the remainder of the 2006 – 07 season.

The Stiwt Theatre holds the Wrexham young people's music festival since 2006.

Up until 2006, the college also possessed additional capacity in Roxburgh House, Wrexham, however the majority of the building was handed back to the vendor due to lease expiration.

On March 22, 2007 Horwarth joined Carlisle United on loan until the end of the 2006 – 07 season after Tony Williams ' loan move to Wrexham.

During the summer of 2006, Hobbs made his first appearances for the first team in friendly matches against Crewe and Wrexham, before going on tour of Switzerland with the first team.

He made his debut for the first team in a pre-season friendly against Wrexham on 15 July 2006, playing for the first 45 minutes upfront as a striker, alongside fellow debutant Craig Bellamy.

In 2004 Wrexham FC was given a years ' notice to quit the ground ; this triggered a furious reaction from fans-in a legal case running through to March 2006 the High Court ruled that the ownership of the freehold of the ground had been improperly transferred, and ownership of the ground reverted to the clubs ' then-Administrators ( the club having gone into Administration in December 2004 with debts of £ 2, 600, 000 ).

With the clubs ' emergence from Administration in May 2006, ownership of the ground passed new company, Wrexham Football Club ( 2006 ) Ltd, owned by Geoff Moss and Ian Roberts.

BSC later arranged an exchange deal with Guest, Keen and Nettlefolds Ltd ( GKN ), the parent company of GKN Steel, under which BSC acquired Dowlais Ironworks at Merthyr Tydfil and GKN took over BSC's Brymbo Steelworks near Wrexham.

Bus services first came to the village in the 1920s first offered by the local government's Wrexham & District Transport Co. Ltd bus service from Wrexham, and followed by Great Western Railway's own bus services.

On the same day the ownership of the freehold was transferred by the Chairman, Alex Hamilton, from Wrexham AFC to another of his companies, Damens Ltd, for a nominal fee.

The new lease stated that Damens Ltd could evict Wrexham FC from the Racecourse Ground upon 12 months ' notice and payment of £ 1, 000, 000.

They passed ownership of the football ground to a new holding company Wrexham Village Ltd, which owned both the new football club company, and later purchased the Rugby League club Crusaders from its owners in Bridgend, South Wales.

In August 2011, after a period of instability at Wrexham Village Ltd, the owning company of the stadium and both the football and Rugby League clubs, the company agreed to sell the stadium and associated training grounds to Glyndŵr University.