The New Saints of Oswestry Town & Llansantffraid Football Club, commonly known as The New Saints (Welsh: Clwb Pêl-droed y Seintiau Newydd) or TNS, are a professional football club that currently play in the Cymru Premier. They are a joint Welsh and English team, incorporating the border towns of Llansantffraid in Wales and Oswestry in England, and are the most successful club in the Welsh league structure, with 16 league titles to their name. Since the 2001–02 season, they have finished as champions or runners-up in every season, apart from 2008–09, where they finished third in the league.

The New Saints
Full nameThe New Saints of Oswestry Town & Llansantffraid Football Club
Nickname(s)The Saints, TNS
Short nameTNS
Founded1959; 65 years ago (1959)
GroundPark Hall
Oswestry, Shropshire, England
Capacity3,000 (3,000 seated)
ChairmanMike Harris
ManagerCraig Harrison
LeagueCymru Premier
2022–23Cymru Premier, 1st of 12
WebsiteClub website

History edit

Llansantffraid F.C. edit

The club was formed as Llansantffraid F.C. to represent the border village of Llansantffraid-ym-Mechain (population: 1,000) in 1959, and played at the Recreation Ground.

They first tasted competitive football in the Montgomeryshire Amateur Football League (then the fourth level of the Welsh football league system), winning the championship seven times. At the end of the 1989–90 season they were elected to the Central Wales League (now the Mid-Wales League) but their stay was brief, winning promotion to the Cymru Alliance as runners-up on their first attempt. Llansantffraid's meteoric rise continued and in 1992–93 they gained promotion to the League of Wales, now the Cymru Premier, as champions and won the Welsh Intermediate Cup (formerly the Welsh Amateur Cup).

Total Network Solutions edit

In 1996, Llansantffraid won the Welsh Cup and qualified for the first time for the European Cup Winners' Cup. At this time, a local computer company, Total Network Solutions of Oswestry, arranged a £250,000 sponsorship deal which involved incorporating the company name into the club name. As Total Network Solutions Llansantffraid, they met Polish Cup winners Ruch Chorzów and earned a 1–1 draw at home before losing 5–0 in Poland. Since then they have qualified for European competition several times. The club's European home games are generally played at either Newtown's or Wrexham's stadium, as their old Recreation Ground was far below UEFA's standards (though for their 2003 meeting with Manchester City, they played their home game at the 72,000-seat Millennium Stadium in Cardiff). To comply with UEFA's regulations on third-party sponsorship, the club were known by their initialism TNS by the European governing body in their competitions.

In 1997 the club's name was changed to Total Network Solutions F.C., being the first instance in the United Kingdom of a football club renaming itself after its sponsor's name only. Following the financial meltdown of Barry Town in the summer of 2003, TNS became the only Cymru Premier club which had a full-time playing staff. In the summer of 2005, however, Llanelli also announced plans to go full-time.

Merger with Oswestry Town edit

In the summer of 2003, the shareholders of Oswestry Town met to approve a merger with TNS. The financially weaker club was a close neighbour to TNS, and also played in the League of Wales despite being based across the border in Shropshire. The Football Association of Wales (FAW) ratified the merger on 14 August 2003 as did UEFA eventually, despite its initial objection to a merger of two clubs with different governing bodies.

The 2003–04 season was trophyless for TNS as they finished runners-up in the League of Wales to Rhyl and were beaten finalists in the Welsh Cup, also to Rhyl. The 2004–05 season proved much more successful, as TNS won a League and Cup double.

During the 2005–06 off-season, after newly crowned Champions League winners Liverpool were initially denied a place in the next season's competition, TNS offered to play a one-legged tie against the Reds for TNS's place in the first qualifying round.[1] After UEFA reached a compromise by which Liverpool were placed in the first qualifying round of the competition, TNS and Liverpool ended up drawn against one another anyway. Liverpool won the first leg at Anfield 3–0 thanks to a Steven Gerrard hat-trick. In the second leg, played at Wrexham, Gerrard added two goals after coming on as a substitute to Djibril Cissé's opening tally for another 3–0 Liverpool victory. Although defeated, TNS drew praise, most notably for the young Northern Irish goalkeeper Gerard Doherty, of whom Rafael Benítez said: "The goalkeeper saved a lot of goals and for me he was the best player in the two games".[2]

The New Saints F.C. edit

In early 2006 the club's sponsor, Total Network Solutions, was taken over by British Telecom,[3] as a result of which the sponsorship arrangement lapsed at the end of the 2005–06 season, and it became necessary to find a new name for the club. After a trawl for new naming ideas, including an attempt to sell the naming rights on eBay, the name "The New Saints" was agreed upon as appropriate to the history of both of the originally merged clubs: Llansantffraid was always known as "The Saints"; Oswestry had strong connections with Saint Oswald, while the club's name was already abbreviated to TNS. A new club badge was also developed at the same time, featuring a dragon to represent Llansantffraid and a lion representing Oswestry.[4]

On 10 February 2010, the BBC reported that the New Saints had applied to play home games at Chester City's Deva Stadium in 2010–11, after having been turned down for a grant to help fund the construction of a new 1,000-seat stand at Park Hall. At the time, the mooted move was complicated by Chester City's governance issues. Deva Stadium's pitch and stands lie in Wales, but outbuildings on the site that housed the club offices are in England, and Chester City were under the jurisdiction of the English Football Association.[5] Chester City were liquidated a month later by HMRC; in any event, the New Saints were granted a domestic licence by the FAW in April 2010 and remained at Park Hall for 2010–11 season. The New Saints were crowned 2009–10 Welsh Premier League Champions.

The New Saints entered the Champions League in 2010–11. They were drawn against League of Ireland Premier Division Champions Bohemians in the Second Qualifying Round. They lost the first leg 1–0 at Dalymount Park in Dublin on 13 July 2010.[6] However, they won the second leg at Park Hall 4–0 and won the tie 4–1 on aggregate, the first ever tie won by the club since their European debut in 1996.[7] Bohemians manager Pat Fenlon later labelled his team's performance as "disgraceful" and said that "the players let the club, league and country down".[8] The result was labelled by others as the worst result in Bohemians' 40-year European history.[9] The Saints advanced to play Belgian Pro League Champions and European giants Anderlecht. The Saints were beaten 3–1 in the home leg played in Wrexham and 3–0 in the away game at the Constant Vanden Stock Stadium in Brussels. The Saints then played CSKA Sofia in the Europa League playoff round, but were beaten 5–2 on aggregate. As league runners up during the 2010–11 season, the Saints entered the Europa League qualifying rounds in 2011. They beat Belfast club Cliftonville 2–1 on aggregate in the first round, but were eliminated by Danish club FC Midtjylland 8–3 on aggregate in the following round.

On 30 December 2016, The New Saints defeated Cefn Druids 2–0 in the Cymru Premier. This extended their winning run to 27 matches, surpassing the previous record of 26 set by Ajax in the 1970s for the most consecutive club victories by a top-flight team in Europe.[10]

Futsal edit

The club's Futsal side has also seen success, having been winners of the inaugural FAW Futsal Cup in 2011 and reaching the final in 2012.[11]

Current squad edit

As of 26 December 2023

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
1 GK   ENG Reece Thompson
2 DF   ENG Josh Pask
3 DF   WAL Chris Marriott (captain)
5 DF   ENG Ryan Astles
6 MF   ENG Jon Routledge
7 MF   IRL Josh Daniels
8 MF   NIR Ryan Brobbel
9 FW   SCO Declan McManus
10 MF   ENG Daniel Redmond
11 FW   POL Adrian Cieślewicz
12 DF   ENG Blaine Hudson
14 MF   WAL Dan Williams
15 MF   ENG Jared Harlock (on loan from Blackburn Rovers)
16 MF   ENG Luke Brennan (on loan from Wigan Athletic)
17 MF   ENG Jordan Williams
No. Pos. Nation Player
18 MF   NIR Rory Holden
19 MF   WAL Ben Clark
21 MF   WAL Leo Smith
22 DF   WAL Danny Davies
23 FW   ENG Brad Young
24 DF   WAL Ash Baker
25 GK   WAL Connor Roberts
26 DF   ENG Jordan Marshall
27 MF   ENG Jake Canavan
29 FW   WAL Gwion Dafydd
30 GK   ENG Jack Edwards
33 MF   ENG Ryley Oakley
34 MF   WAL Josh Lock
38 FW   ENG Owen Davies
39 FW   ENG Tom Jones
DF   USA Matthew Olosunde

Out on loan edit

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
20 FW   WAL Adam Roscrow (at Welling United until January 2024)
31 DF   ENG Ben Woollam (at Aberystwyth Town until January 2024)
32 DF   ENG Billy Kirkman (at Aberystwyth Town until January 2024)
No. Pos. Nation Player
36 DF   ENG Nick Grogan (at Airbus UK Broughton until January 2024)[12]
37 FW   ENG Reece Warder (at Guilsfield until the end of the season)


League history edit

Season League Final position
1959–60[a] Montgomeryshire Amateur Football League 3rd
1960–61[a] Montgomeryshire Amateur Football League 9th
1961–62[a] Montgomeryshire Amateur Football League 6th
1962–63[a] Montgomeryshire Amateur Football League Runners-Up[b]
1963–64[a] Montgomeryshire Amateur Football League 7th
1964–65[a] Montgomeryshire Amateur Football League 3rd
1965–66[a] Montgomeryshire Amateur Football League 4th
1966–67[a] Montgomeryshire Amateur Football League 5th
1967–68 Montgomeryshire Amateur Football League unknown
1968–69[a] Montgomeryshire Amateur Football League 1st – Champions (1st title)
1969–70[a] Montgomeryshire Amateur Football League. Division 1 1st – Champions (2nd title)
1970–71[a] Montgomeryshire Amateur Football League, Division 2 1st – Champions (promoted)
1971–72[a] Montgomeryshire Amateur Football League, Division 1 2nd – Runners-Up
1972–73[a] Montgomeryshire Amateur Football League, Division 1 2nd – Runners-Up
1973–74[a] Montgomeryshire Amateur Football League, Division 1 2nd – Runners-Up
1974–75[a] Montgomeryshire Amateur Football League, Division 1 2nd – Runners-Up
1975–76[a] Montgomeryshire Amateur Football League, Division 1 7th
1976–77[a] Montgomeryshire Amateur Football League, Division 1 6th
1977–78[a] Montgomeryshire Amateur Football League, Division 1 9th
1978–79[a] Montgomeryshire Amateur Football League, Division 1 11th (relegated)
1979–80[a] Montgomeryshire Amateur Football League, Division 2 5th
1980–81[a] Montgomeryshire Amateur Football League, Division 2 1st (promoted)
1981–82[a] Montgomeryshire Amateur Football League, Division 1 5th
1982–83[a] Montgomeryshire Amateur Football League, Division 1 1st – Champions (3rd title)
1983–84[a] Montgomeryshire Amateur Football League, Division 1 3rd
1984–85[a] Montgomeryshire Amateur Football League, Division 1 10th
1985–86[a] Montgomeryshire Amateur Football League, Division 1 6th
1986–87[a] Montgomeryshire Amateur Football League, Division 1 1st – Champions (4th title)
1987–88[a] Montgomeryshire Amateur Football League, Division 1 5th
1988–89[a] Montgomeryshire Amateur Football League, Division 1 5th
1989–90[a] Montgomeryshire Amateur Football League, Division 1 8th[c]
1990–91[a] Central Wales League 2nd – Runners-Up (promoted)[13]
1991–92[a] Cymru Alliance 2nd – Runners-Up[d]
1992–93[a] Cymru Alliance 1st – Champions (1st title)[e]
1993–94[a] League of Wales 18th[14]
1994–95[a] League of Wales 9th[15]
1995–96[a] League of Wales 12th[16]
1996–97[f] League of Wales 6th[17]
1997–98[g] League of Wales 14th[18]
1998–99[g] League of Wales 8th[19]
1999–2000[g] League of Wales 1st – Champions (1st title)
2000–01[g] League of Wales 8th
2001–02[g] League of Wales 2nd – Runners-Up
2002–03[g] Welsh Premier League 2nd – Runners-Up
2003–04[g] Welsh Premier League 2nd – Runners-Up
2004–05[g] Welsh Premier League 1st – Champions (2nd title)
2005–06[g] Welsh Premier League 1st – Champions (3rd title)
2006–07[h] Welsh Premier League 1st – Champions (4th title)
2007–08[h] Welsh Premier League 2nd – Runners-Up
2008–09[h] Welsh Premier League 3rd
2009–10[h] Welsh Premier League 1st – Champions (5th title)[20]
2010–11[h] Welsh Premier League 2nd – Runners-Up
2011–12[h] Welsh Premier League 1st – Champions (6th title)[21]
2012–13[h] Welsh Premier League 1st – Champions (7th title)[22]
2013–14[h] Welsh Premier League 1st – Champions (8th title)[23]
2014–15[h] Welsh Premier League 1st – Champions (9th title)[24]
2015–16[h] Welsh Premier League 1st – Champions (10th title)[25]
2016–17[h] Welsh Premier League 1st – Champions (11th title)[26]
2017–18[h] Welsh Premier League 1st – Champions (12th title)[27]
2018–19[h] Welsh Premier League 1st – Champions (13th title)[28]
2019–20[h] Cymru Premier 2nd – Runners-Up
2020–21 Cymru Premier 2nd – Runners-Up
2021–22 Cymru Premier 1st – Champions (14th title)[29]
2022–23 Cymru Premier 1st – Champions (15th title)[30]
2023–24 Cymru Premier
Notes
  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj As Llansantffraid F.C.
  2. ^ After the cancellation of the season due to the winter of 1962–63, a cup style competition was played where Llansantffraid finished runners-up
  3. ^ Llansantffraid elected to the Central Wales League at the end of the season
  4. ^ Llansantffraid Reserves were also Champions of Montgomeryshire Amateur Football League, Division 1 (5th title)
  5. ^ Llansantffraid Reserves were also Champions of Montgomeryshire Amateur Football League, Division 1 (6th title)
  6. ^ As Total Network Solutions Llansantffraid F.C
  7. ^ a b c d e f g h i As Total Network Solutions F.C.
  8. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n As The New Saints F.C

History in European competition edit

As of 18 July 2023

Overall edit

Competition Pld W D L GF GA GD
UEFA Champions League 40 10 5 25 38 68 −30
UEFA Cup & UEFA Europa League 26 3 4 19 21 68 −47
UEFA Europa Conference League 8 4 2 2 18 9 +9
UEFA Cup Winners' Cup 2 0 1 1 1 6 −5
Total 76 17 12 47 78 151 –73

Matches edit

Season Competition Round Club 1st Leg 2nd Leg Agg.
1996–97 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup QR   Ruch Chorzów 1–1 (H)[a] 0–5 (A) 1–6
2000–01 UEFA Champions League 1Q   FC Levadia Tallinn 2–2 (H)[a] 0–4 (A) 2–6
2001–02 UEFA Cup QR   Polonia Warsaw 0–4 (A) 0–2 (H)[a] 0–6
2002–03 UEFA Cup QR   Amica Wronki 0–5 (A) 2–7 (H)[b] 2–12
2003–04 UEFA Cup QR   Manchester City 0–5 (A) 0–2 (H)[c] 0–7
2004–05 UEFA Cup 1Q   Östers IF 0–2 (A) 1–2 (H)[a] 1–4
2005–06 UEFA Champions League 1Q   Liverpool 0–3 (A) 0–3 (H)[a] 0–6
2006–07 UEFA Champions League 1Q   MYPA 0–1 (A) 0–1 (H)[b] 0–2
2007–08 UEFA Champions League 1Q   FK Ventspils 3–2 (H)[b] 1–2 (A) 4–4 (a)
2008–09 UEFA Cup 1Q   FK Sūduva 0–1 (A) 0–1 (H)[b] 0–2
2009–10 UEFA Europa League 1Q   Fram Reykjavik 1–2 (A) 1–2 (H) 2–4
2010–11 UEFA Champions League 2Q   Bohemians 0–1 (A) 4–0 (H) 4–1
3Q   Anderlecht 1–3 (H) 0–3 (A) 1–6
UEFA Europa League PO   CSKA Sofia 0–3 (A) 2–2 (H) 2–5
2011–12 UEFA Europa League 1Q   Cliftonville 1–1 (H) 1–0 (A) 2–1
2Q   FC Midtjylland 1–3 (H) 2–5 (A) 3–8
2012–13 UEFA Champions League 2Q   Helsingborgs IF 0–0 (H) 0–3 (A) 0–3
2013–14 UEFA Champions League 2Q   Legia Warsaw 1–3 (H)[a] 0–1 (A) 1–4
2014–15 UEFA Champions League 2Q   ŠK Slovan Bratislava 0–1 (A) 0–2 (H) 0–3
2015–16 UEFA Champions League 1Q   B36 Tórshavn 2–1 (A) 4–1 (H) 6–2
2Q   Videoton 0–1 (H) 1–1 (A) 1–2
2016–17 UEFA Champions League 1Q   Tre Penne 2–1 (H) 3–0 (A) 5–1
2Q   APOEL 0–0 (H) 0–3 (A) 0–3
2017–18 UEFA Champions League 1Q   Europa FC 1–2 (H) 3–1 (A) 4–3
2Q   Rijeka 0–2 (A) 1–5 (H) 1–7
2018–19 UEFA Champions League 1Q   Shkëndija 0–5 (A) 4–0 (H) 4–5
UEFA Europa League 2Q   Lincoln Red Imps 2–1 (H) 1–1 (A) 3–2
3Q   Midtjylland 0–2 (H)[d] 1–3 (A) 1–5
2019–20 UEFA Champions League 1Q   Feronikeli 2–2 (H) 1–0 (A) 3–2
2Q   Copenhagen 0–2 (H) 0–1 (A) 0–3
UEFA Europa League 3Q   Ludogorets Razgrad 0–5 (A) 0–4 (H)[a] 0–9
2020–21 UEFA Europa League 1Q   Žilina 3–1 (a.e.t.) (H)
2Q   B36 Tórshavn 2–2 (4–5 p) (A)
2021–22 UEFA Europa Conference League 1Q   Glentoran 1–1 (A) 2–0 (H) 3–1
2Q   Kauno Žalgiris 5–0 (A) 5−1 (H) 10−1
3Q   Viktoria Plzeň 4–2 (H)[d] 1–3 (a.e.t.) (A) 5–5 (1–4 p)
2022–23 UEFA Champions League 1Q   Linfield 1–0 (H) 0–2 (a.e.t.) (A) 1–2
UEFA Europa Conference League 2Q   Víkingur Reykjavík 0–2 (A) 0–0 (H) 0–2
2023–24 UEFA Champions League 1Q   BK Häcken 1–3 (A) 0–2 (H) 1–5
UEFA Europa Conference League 2Q   Swift Hesperange 1–1 (H) 2–3 (A) 3–4
2024–25 UEFA Champions League 1Q
Notes
  • QR: Qualifying round
  • 1Q: First qualifying round
  • 2Q: Second qualifying round
  • 3Q: Third qualifying round
  • PO: Play-off round
  1. ^ a b c d e f g Match played at the Racecourse Ground, Wrexham
  2. ^ a b c d Match played at the Latham Park, Newtown
  3. ^ Match played at the Millennium Stadium, Cardiff
  4. ^ a b Match played at the Cardiff City Stadium, Cardiff

Honours edit

as Llansantffraid edit

  • Montgomeryshire Amateur Football League Division One[33]
    • Champions (6): 1968–69, 1969–70, 1982–83, 1986–87, 1991–92, 1992–93
  • Montgomeryshire Amateur Football League Division Two
    • Champions (2): 1970–71, 1980–81

Individual stats edit

  • Highest attendance: 14,563 against Liverpool, 2005
  • First progression in European football (4–1) agg -v- Bohemians, 2010

Biggest victories and losses edit

Managers edit

First team technical staff edit

  • Head coach  Craig Harrison
  • Assistant manager  Christian Seargeant
  • First Team coach  Simon Spender
  • First Team coach  Simon Smith
  • Fitness coach  Thomas Noon
  • Sports Therapist  Phillip Davies
  • Performance Analyst  Connor Hindley

Women's football edit

The New Saints F.C. Women play in the Adran Premier League, the highest tier of league competition in Welsh women's football.

In the 2022-23 season, they finished in 4th place.[35]

See also edit

References edit

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External links edit