| Full name | Oswestry Town Football Club | |
|---|---|---|
| Founded | 1920 | |
| Dissolved | 2003 | |
| Ground | Park Hall Oswestry | |
| Capacity | 2,000 | |
| League | Welsh Premier League 2000–03 | |
Oswestry Town Football Club was afootball club fromShropshire, playing at Victoria Road.
The club was founded in 1920, as a replacement forOswestry United,[1] and it joined theNorth Wales Alliance League.[2]
It joined theBirmingham League in 1924 and switched to theCheshire County League in 1959. In 1975 they made the move to theSouthern League before transferring to theNorthern Premier League in 1979.
The club was mothballed in 1988, but started playing again in 1993 in theWelsh National League (Wrexham Area). They played in theLeague of Wales from 2000 to 2003, at Park Hall, and in 2003 merged with Total Network Solutions F.C. (formerly Llansantffraid F.C.). In 2006 the merged club was renamed asThe New Saints.[3]
The club mostly wore blue shirts and white shorts, although occasionally the team combined the blue and white in stripes.[4]
The club played at the Victoria Road ground until 1988; the sale of the ground caused the club to be in abeyance until finding a berth at Park Hall.[5]
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