1992–93 League of Wales
| Season | 1992–93 |
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| Champions |
Cwmbran Town (1st title) |
| Relegated |
Llanidloes Town Abergavenny Thursdays |
| Champions League |
Cwmbran Town (Preliminary round) |
| Matches played | 380 |
| Goals scored | 1,232 (3.24 per match) |
| Top goalscorer | Steve Woods (29) |
| Biggest home win |
Ebbw Vale 10–0 Briton Ferry Athletic (6 January 1993) |
| Biggest away win |
Bangor City 0–6 Hollywell Town (31 October 1992) Abergavenny Thursdays 0–6 Afan Lido (16 January 1993) Llanidloes Town 0–6 Aberystwyth Town (24 April 1993) |
| Highest scoring |
Ebbw Vale 10–0 Briton Ferry Athletic (6 January 1993) (10 goals) |
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The 1992–93 League of Wales was the inaugural season of the League of Wales, the top division of Welsh football. The League was made up of 20 member clubs that joined from leagues within both the English football league system and Welsh football league system.
The new league was formed for the 1992-93 season. At the time, Wales was unusual in world football in that despite the Football Association of Wales (FAW) being a FIFA member and, along with the other three home nations (England, Northern Ireland and Scotland), holding a permanent seat on the International Football Association Board (IFAB), it did not organise a national league. With African and Asian nations feeling that the FAW were taking advantage of this fact, FAW Secretary General, Alun Evans announced in October 1991 that the new league would start at the beginning of the next season.
There were cross-regional leagues, such as the Cymru Alliance and the Welsh Football League along with the long established National competition, in the form of the Welsh Cup. However it was always felt that organising a national league would prove too difficult, due to the poor transport links between the North and South, combined with the fact that the larger clubs tended to ply their trade in the English football league system. At the time, Cardiff City, Swansea City and Wrexham were playing in The Football League, with Newport County having been relegated at the end of the 1987–88 season. The FAW decided to allow the remaining Football League teams to continue to play in the English system. Of the non-league clubs: Bangor City, Barry Town, Caernarfon Town, Colwyn Bay, Merthyr Tydfil, Newport, Newtown and Rhyl, the FAW gave them the ultimatum of joining the Welsh football league system or continue to play in the English system and be forced to play home games on English soil.
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