Pure Swansea

Swansea University has a Welsh League heritage dating back to the 1960s, when under its previous guise as the University College Swansea, the Club played at the highest level of Welsh Football for nearly 2 decades.

The University first entered the Welsh League in the 1966-67 season and incredibly won Division 2 in that season, sealing promotion to Division 1, at the first time of asking. At that time there were also 3 divisions.

The students of Swansea continued to impress in the 1967-68 season by finishing runners up in Division 1 to seal promotion to the Premier Division in just 2 seasons – a meteoric rise in similar fashion to the modern-day Swansea University team.

Unfortunately, the club’s stay in the Welsh League Premier Division was short lived and they were relegated at the end of the 1968-69 season but bounced back as Champions of Division 1. Following relegation in 1971-72, Swansea University stabilised in Division 1 until 1978, when they suffered a drop into Division 2.

The club competed in the third tier of the Welsh League until 1985, when sadly it fell out of the league leading to a 32-year exodus which ended in 2017 with the return of the University to the higher levels of the Welsh football pyramid.

Team Swansea was started in 2011 by a group of forward looking students, but not even the founding members could have predicted the second meteoric rise of the University team which has seen it return to the Welsh League.

The Club is still in its infancy but has had its fair share of silverware in that time. 4 promotions, 2 Gwalia Cups, 1 Senior Cup and an unforgettable 10-0 win in the final of the West Wales Cup in 2015. The pinnacle of the club’s achievement was sealing the Swansea League Championship and West Wales Cup double in May 2017. Which secured a historic return to the Welsh League.

The first season back in the Welsh League in the 2017-18 campaign was a stunning success. Promotion to Division 2 was sealed with 3 games to spare as the University clinched the Welsh League Division 3 title with an emphatic 4-0 win away at Caerau FC in Maesteg. To cap off a fine season of football, the club also claimed the Division 3 FAW Fair Play Award, proving that it is possible to win with style, grace and outstanding discipline.

The remarkable journey continued the following season when once again, under the guidance of Dafydd Evans and Wyn Thomas, promotion to the new tier 2 JD Cymru South was achieved through finishing runners-up in Welsh League Division 2. An outstanding disciplinary record winning the FAW Fair Play award.

The club were founder members of the JD Cymru South for 2019-20, the squad once again showed great quality and resilience and played some fantastic football. The title was secured after 25 matches when Covid 19 brought the season to an end. Promotion to the JD Cymru Premier was denied however as a Tier 1 Licence was not awarded. 2022-23 saw the club struggle and they were finally relegated into the Ardal Southern, where they finished a creditable 4th in the league and won the Ardal Southern Cup 3-2 against Cefn Cribwr, under the management of Jon Beale.