Caersws
Wikipedia - Caersws F.C.
Caersws Football Club (Welsh: Clwb Pêl Droed Caersŵs) is a football team, playing in the Cymru North which is in the second tier of the Welsh football pyramid.
The club was founded in 1887 as Caersws Amateurs, and adopted the present name when amateur status was dropped in 1974. The team plays at the Recreation Ground, Caersws, which accommodates 4000 spectators (500 seated), notable as being able to accommodate everyone in the village over four times.
The team's first choice strip is blue shirts, white shorts and blue socks. The second choice strip is orange shirts, black shorts and orange socks.
History
Although founded in the late 19th century, the club enjoyed little if any success until the 1960s when it won the Mid-Wales League in 1959–60, 1960–61, and 1962–63, and appeared in three Welsh Amateur Cup finals, winning the cup in 1960–61. They also won the cup (now renamed the Welsh Intermediate Cup) in 1989. In the league, the team's fortunes waned until they won the title again in 1978, and four more times before they were invited to join the Cymru Alliance in 1990. In 1992 they became founder members of the League of Wales.
Caersws won the League Cup in 2000–01 and 2001–02, and played in the Intertoto Cup, being defeated 3–1 on aggregate by PFC Marek Dupnitsa of Bulgaria.
Caersws FC har vundet Welsh Cup tre gange, i 1931, 1933 og 1973, og Welsh League Cup to gange, i 1957 og 1992. Klubben har også repræsenteret Wales i europæiske turneringer flere gange, inklusive UEFA Cup Winners' Cup og UEFA Europa League.
Klubbens hjemmebane er Recreation Ground, som har en kapacitet på omkring 2.000 tilskuere. Caersws FC's fans er kendt som "Bluebirds" på grund af klubbens blå trøjer.
Klubbens mest berømte spiller er Ian Rush, som spillede for Caersws FC som ung. Rush gik videre til en strålende karriere for Liverpool og Wales, hvor han scorede over 300 mål for klub og land.