Brecon Corries

Brecon Corinthians A.F.C. (Brecon Corries) were formed in 1946 at the Greyhound Coffee Tavern in Llanfaes, in the Brecon Beacons and were accepted into the Mid-Wales League (Southern Section). In 1947–48 they achieved a league-cup double and for the 1949–50 season they joined the Welsh Football League Division Two East. The club played in the Welsh League until the end of 1966–67, when they left to play in the Brecon & District League. During their first spell in the Welsh League their most notable achievement was winning the Welsh Football League Cup in 1962–62, beating Abergavenny Thursdays.

Brecon re-joined the Welsh Football League for the 1974–75 season, playing in Division Two, the third tier of the Welsh Football Pyramid. At the end of 1979–80, they finished third, gaining promotion to Division One – the second tier. At the end of the 1981–82 season the club finished as Champions gaining promotion to the Premier Division, the top tier of Welsh football. Brecon also won the Welsh League Cup, beating Trelewis Welfare. For ten seasons the club played in the top level in the re-banded National Division from 1983-84. The following season the club lost 2-1 in the Final of the Welsh Intermediate Cup (now FAW Trophy), 2-1 to Cardiff Corinthians in a replay. The club would have their best season in 1992-93 finishing as runners up to Ton Pentre, but losing again in the Welsh Intermediate Cup Final, this time 3-0 to Llansantffraid. 1995-96 saw the club relegated to Division Two. Two seasons later the club were relegated to Division Three and 1998-99 would be the clubs last in that era in Welsh League Football dropping out of Division Three.

The club then joined the South Wales Senior League but were relegated at the end of their first season from Division One. They earned promotion though from Division Two at the end of 2001–02 season but at the end of the 2004–05 season were relegated again. In summer of 2006, decisions were made to focus on using local players at their Rich Field ground and former Newtown midfielder Damien Daniels took over as player-manager. The team were promoted at the end of the 2008–09 season after finishing third. The stay in Division One was short lived but another promotion soon followed. At the end of the 2015 season the team transferred to the new South Wales Alliance League Premier Division, at level five of the pyramid. They finished in the top six in each of the new league’s opening three seasons, before finishing 9th in their final season in the South Walian League structure.

For the 2019–20 season the club moved within the Welsh Football structure to Central Wales, and re-joined the Watson Financial Mid Wales (South) League. In a season which was curtailed due to the coronavirus pandemic, the club were Champions, with a 100% record of 16 wins from 16 games with 143 goals scored and just two conceded. In addition to these statistics the team recorded a 27–0 win at Knighton Town Reserves which was expunged from the record books.

Brecon were promoted to the Mid Wales Football League’s new East Division at Tier 4 and in 2021-22 season the club earned their second league title win in two seasons by securing the East Division title in May 2022 to proudly win promotion to the Ardal League. On 9th June 2022, it was announced that the club had been promoted to the Ardal Southern South East League for the 2022–23 season.