Oswestry Town F.C.

Not to be confused with F.C. Oswestry Town.

Full name	Oswestry Town Football Club
Founded	no later than 1886
Dissolved	2003
Ground	Park Hall Oswestry
Capacity	2,000
League	Welsh Premier League 2000–03
Website	http://www.tnsfc.co.uk/

Oswestry Town Football Club was a football club from Shropshire, playing at Victoria Road. They joined the Birmingham League in 1924 and switched to the Cheshire County League in 1959. In 1975 they made the move to the Southern League before transferring to the Northern Premier League in 1979.

The club was mothballed in 1988, but started playing again in 1993 in the Welsh National League (Wrexham Area). They played in the League 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 as The New Saints.^[1]

Managers

Source:^[2]

Tom Vaughan (?–1949) (Secretary Manager) Tommy Gardner (1949–1951)# George Rowlands Antonio[3] (1951–1954)# Alan Ball Sr. (1954–1957?)# Keith Thomas (1957–1959?) George Rowlands Antonio[3] (1959–1961) Dick Jones (1964?–1966) Norman Hobson (1966–1967)# Jackie Mudie (1967–?) Johnny Morris (1967?–1969) Fred Morris (1969–1973) Len Kilby (1973–1975) Dick Jones (1975) Dave Pountney (1975–1976) Alan Boswell (1976–1977)

Idris Pryce (1977–1978) Freddie Hill (1978–1980) Arthur Rowley (1980) Fred Morris (1980–1983) Ken Roberts (1983–1984) Stuart Mason (1984–1985?) Trevor Storton (1985?–1986) John Rogers (1987–?) Brynley Jones (1987–1988) Ken Swinerton (1993–1996) Mario Iquinta (1996–1997) Ken Swinerton (1997–1999) Steve O'Shaughnessy (1999–2001) David Norman (2001–03)

# – Player-Manager

Records

• Best FA Cup performance: 1st round, 1927–28, 1957–58, 1959–60, 1974–75^[1]
• Best FA Trophy performance: 2nd round, 1979–80^[1]
• Best Welsh Cup performance: Semi-finals, 1886–87, 1938–39 (replay), 1955–56, 1970–71^[1]

References

1. Oswestry Town at the Football Club History Database
2. "Oswestry Town Managers". tnsfc.co.uk. 27 January 2016. Retrieved 8 January 2017.
3. One source lists him erroneously as 'George Antonio Rowlands'.