Full name | Ruthin Town Football Club |
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Nickname(s) | founded = c.1870 |
Ground |
Memorial Playing Fields Ruthin Denbighshire |
Capacity | 2,000 |
Chairman | Paddy Carney |
Manager | Chris Williams |
League | Cymru Alliance |
2011-12 | Cymru Alliance, 12th |
Ruthin Town Football Club is a Welsh football club, based at the Memorial Playing Fields in Ruthin, Denbighshire, and is one of the most popular football clubs in North Wales with long history of providing sport to all ages of the local communuity. The towns' team were runners-up in the 1879-80 Welsh Cup to Druids, losing 2-1 in the final, but the current club was only founded in 1951.
The club fields nine teams in competitive leagues - six youth teams and three senior teams. The First team play in the Huws Gray Alliance, the second tier of the Welsh pyramid system. Reserves and Development Squads play in the [[Welsh National League (Wrexham Area)]Reserves and Reserves/Colts League respectively.
Six Ruthin players appeared for Wales between 1880 and 1895: