Rhyl Football Club (Welsh: Clwb Pêl Droed Y Rhyl) is a Welsh football club, playing in the Welsh Premier League.
The club was founded in 1882 (though a new limited liability company was formed in 1991) and the team plays its home matches at Belle Vue, Rhyl, which can accommodate 3,800 spectators.
Few clubs in the Welsh Premier League have as distinguished a past as Rhyl's. Football in the town dates from the late 1870s and at one time there were ...
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Rhyl Football Club (Welsh: Clwb Pêl Droed Y Rhyl) is a Welsh football club, playing in the Welsh Premier League.
The club was founded in 1882 (though a new limited liability company was formed in 1991) and the team plays its home matches at Belle Vue, Rhyl, which can accommodate 3,800 spectators.
Few clubs in the Welsh Premier League have as distinguished a past as Rhyl's. Football in the town dates from the late 1870s and at one time there were several Rhyl clubs in existence. Rhyl FC became founder members of the Welsh League, formed in 1890, but withdrew the following year. They reformed as Rhyl Athletic in 1893 and became founder members of the North Wales Coast League, winning the title in 1894-95. Rhyl Athletic joined forces with Rhyl Town in 1898 and in an ambitious move switched to the Anglo-Welsh competition known as The Combination. Despite financial crises, they remained in membership until the league disbanded at the end of the 1910-11 season. Under the name of Rhyl United...
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