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| Full name | Pure Swansea Football Club |
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| Founded | 2011 (current club) |
| Ground | Swansea Bay Sports Park, Sketty Lane, Swansea. |
| Capacity | 250 |
| Manager | Jon Beale |
| League | Ardal SW League |
| 2024–25 | Ardal SW League, 3rd of 16 |
Pure Swansea Football Club, formerly known asSwansea University, is aWelsh football club, who play in theArdal SW League. They play at Sketty Lane,Swansea.
The current team was reformed as Team Swansea in 2011 by students fromSwansea University. Since the club's reformation, the club has achieved six promotions, two Gwalia cups, one Senior Cup and two West Wales Cups, including a 10–0 win in the 2015 final.
In 2017 the club sealed theSwansea Senior League championship andWest Wales Cup double in May 2017, securing their return to theWelsh Football League in a play-off againstNeath & District League champions Cwm Wanderers.
In May 2018 the club was promoted toWelsh Football League Division Two as Champions.[1] They followed this up in April 2019 by gaining promotion to the newCymru South as runners-up in Division Two.[2] They were also awarded the divisional fair play award for the season.[3]
In May 2020 they were crowned champions of Cymru South after the curtailment of the season as a result of the Coronavirus pandemic.[4]
However, due to finishing 15th in the2022–23 Cymru South, they were relegated into the Ardal Leagues, from 2023–24 onwards.
In 2025 the team was renamed to Pure Swansea FC.[5][6]
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| Season | League | Welsh Cup[11] | FAW Trophy[11] | Other | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pyramid Tier | Division | P | W | D | L | Pts | Pos | ||||
| 2011-12[a] | 8 | Swansea Senior League Division Four | 20 | 15 | 3 | 2 | 46 | 1[12] | |||
| 2012-13[a] | 7 | Swansea Senior League Division Three | 18 | 9 | 2 | 7 | 29 | 4 | Gwalia Cup Winners | ||
| 2013-14[a] | 7 | Swansea Senior League Division Three | 24 | 16 | 4 | 4 | 52 | 2 | Gwalia Cup Winners | ||
| 2014-15[a] | 6 | Swansea Senior League Division Two | 18 | 13 | 2 | 3 | 45 | 2 | R1 | West Wales Intermediate Cup winners | |
| 2015-16[a] | 5 | Swansea Senior League Division One | 16 | 10 | 2 | 4 | 32 | 2 | |||
| 2016-17[a] | 5 | Swansea Senior League Division One | 20 | 18 | 0 | 2 | 54 | 1[13] | 1Q | West Wales Intermediate Cup winners | |
| 2017-18 | 4 | Welsh Football League Division Three | 30 | 24 | 3 | 3 | 75 | 1 | 1Q | R2 | |
| 2018-19 | 3 | Welsh Football League Division Two | 30 | 20 | 4 | 6 | 64 | 2 | R2 | R5 | |
| 2019-20 | 2 | Cymru South | 24 | 17 | 4 | 3 | 55 | 1 | R4 | ||
Notes
Swansea University has a Welsh League heritage dating back to the 1960s, when under its previous guise as the University College Swansea. The university first entered the Welsh League in the 1966–67 season winningDivision Two in their first season. In the 1967–68 season they finished runners-up inDivision One to seal promotion to thePremier Division in just two seasons. They were relegated at the end of the 1968–69 season but were again promoted as Division One Champions. In 1971–72 they were relegated again, remaining in Division One until 1978 when they were relegated to Division Two. The club remained in the Welsh league until 1985 when it left the league.[14]
Information sourced from the Football Club History Database[15] and the Welsh Soccer Archive.[16]
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