Nantlle Vale F.C.


Nantlle Vale F.C are a Welsh football club from Penygroes, near Caernarfon, formed around 1920. They play in the.

History

They were notorious in the early 1970s for their very robust style of play, when the team featured noted hard men such as player-manager Orig Williams – a professional wrestler by trade, who fought under the stage name El Bandito – and defender Idris Evans, better known by his nickname of Tarw Nefyn. Williams was once famously sent off in only the third minute of a match at Bangor City. His autobiography Cario'r Ddraig was published in the 1990s.

Honours

League

Caernarfon & District League:

Cups

Amateur Cup:
  • * Winners : 1973–74, 1974–75Barritt Cup:
  • * Winners : 2001–02Challenge Cup:
  • * Winners Cooks Cup:
  • * Winners : 1938–39Cookson Cup:
  • * Winners : 1959–60Intermediate Cup:
  • * Winners : 1975–76Lleyn & District Cup:
  • * Winners : 1938–39Moorings Cup:
  • * Winners : 1989–90, 1999–2000, 2000–01Penrhyn Cup:
  • * Winners : 1973–74President Cup:
  • * Winners : 2002–03Snowdonia Shield:
  • * Winners : 1987–88North Wales Coast FA Junior Challenge Cup:
  • * Winners : 2000–01
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