Caernarfon Town F.C.
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| Full name | Caernarfon Town Football Club Clwb Pêl Droed Tref Caernarfon |
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| Nickname(s) | The Canaries |
| Founded | 1937 |
| Ground | The Oval, Caernarfon |
| Capacity | 3,000 (500 seated) |
| Chairman | Arfon Jones |
| Manager | Iwan Williams |
| League | Cymru Alliance |
| 2015–16 | Cymru Alliance, 1st |
Caernarfon Town Football Club (Welsh: Clwb Pêl Droed Tref Caernarfon) is a football team. The club is nicknamed The Canaries because of its yellow and green strip, a nickname that dates from 1895. Caernarfon Town plays at The Oval, Caernarfon, Gwynedd.
The first football club in Caernarfon, known as Caernarvon Wanderers, was formed in September 1876 and played at various grounds before moving to the Oval in 1888. On 30 October 1886, Wanderers were the first team from north west Wales to enter the FA Cup and lost 10–1 away to Stoke City. Five years later, however, that particular club went out of existence but, in 1894, several former players began a new team called Caernarvon Ironopolis. That club competed in the North Wales Coast League, winning the championship on two occasions and reaching the semi-final of the Welsh Cup in 1900 and again in 1902. Unfortunately, following a dispute with the league, Ironopolis folded in 1903. The demise of the club resulted in some of the players forming the Caernarvon Colts while others affiliated to the Caernarvon RWF (Royal Welsh Fusiliers), both clubs playing at the Oval.
In 1906, the clubs amalgamated to form Caernarvon United and in 1909 the new club won both the Welsh and North Wales Amateur Cups. After the Great War, the demobbed United players formed a new club (Caernarvon Athletic) which, until 1921, played in the North Wales Coast League and thereafter the Welsh National League Division Two (West), with mixed fortune. In 1926, however, a limited company was formed and a full-time manager and professional team engaged. The club met with immediate success, winning the Welsh National League Division One championship in 1926–27, ahead of Bangor City and Rhyl, and repeating the feat in 1929–30 having been pipped to the title by Connah's Quay & Shotton 12 months earlier. Caernarvon Athletic are still remembered for their FA Cup run in 1929 when they defeated Darlington before going out to Bournemouth in a second round replay, the first game at the Oval attracting a crowd of some 9,000. In 1930, however, the club went into liquidation but two years later a re-formed team won the Welsh Combination before quitting over problems in using the Oval.
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