Club History
Pontyclun Football Club has been part of the south Wales football scene for over a century having been founded way back in 1896. It is not certain where the club played its earliest home games – it may have been Talygarn – but there is documentary evidence that Ivor Park became the home ground in 1920 when Wyndham Damer Clark, formerly of Talygarn House, gave the club preferential use of the land as a football field.
In the early years, the club was a member of the Bridgend & District League but immediately after World War I joined the Cardiff & District League. In 1922 the club was admitted to the Football Association of Wales – one of the few amateur clubs to achieve such status.
In 1968 the club was admitted to the Welsh Football League, finishing 1968-69 in 13th place in Division 2. At the same time the club continued to run senior teams in both the Rhondda and Pontypridd Leagues.
In season 1979-80 the club were runners-up to Lake United to win promotion to Division 1 and after relegation in 1981-82 played in Division 2 again until the formation of the League of Wales in 1992, the club being restructured into Division 3. The club won promotion in the first season in this division though as runners up behind Treowen Stars in 1992-93 until relegation in 1997-98.
However, the proudest moment in the club’s long history came at the end of the 2002-03 season when on an emotional May afternoon, the club won the Welsh League Division 3 title, piping Skewen Athletic by just one goal! In the same season the Reserves were runners-up in the Welsh League Reserve East Division.
The club played in Division 2 until relegation in 2007-08 and in 2011-12 the club suffered great disappointment when they finished at the foot of Division 3 and were subsequently relegated from the Welsh Football League after 44 consecutive seasons of membership.
The club subsequently joined the South Wales Amateur League and after two seasons of consolidation the 2014-15 campaign saw the club finish in a very creditable fourth place in the league & reach the final of the W. John Owen Cup.
2016-17 was a time for celebration for everyone connected with Pontyclun as the club secured the championship of the South Wales Alliance League by 10 points resulting in the club regaining its place in the Welsh Football League.
The club has every reason to look forward to the future with much optimism. The impressive changing room facility is now complete, substantial ground improvements have been made to comply with Tier 3 ground criteria, while junior football is thriving with a significant number of home-grown youngsters breaking through at senior level.
After spending the past three seasons establishing itself once again in the Welsh League the Club was delighted to be selected by the FAW to participate in the Ardal Southern League, West Division for the 2020-21 season.
