In this article, we look at how an ex-Northern Premier League club’s first season fared since making a switch to Welsh football.
A while back, Colwyn Bay ended their 35 year stay in English football and switch to the Welsh leagues for the 2019/20 season.
The club expressed that they are exploring that possibility due to financial struggles, if they don’t then they might end up going bust.
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Each shareholder had one vote per share held and after listening to arguments for both sides, the outcome was 91,600 votes for Wales and 55,624 to remain in England on what would be a greatly reduced budget.
Lately, they have been playing their football in the Cymru North, which is one of two divisions at the second tier of Welsh football.
The season had been scheduled to finish on the 25th of April 2020 but due to the outbreak, no games were played after the 7th of March. In May 2020 the Cymru North was officially ended after consultation between the Football Association of Wales and the clubs.
Prestatyn Town were confirmed as champions but because they failed to gain a Tier 1 licence, runners-up Flint Town United were promoted to the Cymru Premier.
For Colwyn Bay, they were in third place when the season stopped, taking 50 points from 25 games played, but after PPG (points-per-game) came in, they were placed fourth, having 47 points from 24 matches.
An unweighted points per game method was applied to determine the final standings.
Rhyl entered administration in April 2020 after failing to find a £175,000 investment, with the club’s directors cited the financial impact of the COVID-19 pandemic as a reason for entering administration and the club’s results were expunged.
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SEASON 20/21 STATEMENT:
The Football Association of Wales has received clarification that the JD Cymru North and JD Cymru South have not had their ‘Elite Status’ designation reinstated by the National Sport Group (NSG).
As a result, the 2020/21 season has been cancelled for these competitions due to the ongoing public health crisis and the current Welsh Government COVID-19 alert level, leaving insufficient time to safely complete a reduced season.
The NSG includes representation from Sport Wales, Welsh Sports Association, Commonwealth Games and the Welsh Government.
The FAW fully understands the frustrations felt by many throughout the country of not being able to play, volunteer and support their clubs. However, these are unprecedented times and the FAW is not responsible for the national COVID-19 policies and guidelines, which are in place to keep the nation as safe as possible.
The FAW continues to encourage that everyone follows the Welsh Government guidelines to limit the spread of COVID-19.
“I’m thankful now that we’ve got closure because I think now that will help us all with the process of putting what has been the last 8-10 months to bed,” manager Craig Hogg said.
“On the football side we are disappointed we didn’t get going. We had been hanging on and clinging for hope for the best part of eight months.
“But when the final schedule of games was tabled to us it really struck a chord with me in terms of ‘do the ends justify the means here?’
“I really felt it was a massive ask for players who have been inactive for so long and who aren’t elite athletes but are part time footballers, to go and play 15 games in nine weeks. In the first nine days we’d have had four games.
“For me it was really, really risky for the players and I wasn’t comfortable with it at all.
“We can begin now to look forward to getting back in and training ahead of the next campaign.
“We’re just waiting for a Government decision now as to when we can train as a group together because the players just need to get out and kick a football again more than anything.
“In terms of planning for next season, once the Government have made certain decisions I think that will expedite and bring forward our planning more to the forefront of how we want to do it.”
COLWYN BAY LEAGUE HISTORY:
SEASON LEAGUE P W D L F A P POS 1984-85 NWC-3 34 22 10 2 75 32 54 2/18 1985-86 NWC-2 34 17 8 9 74 53 42 5/18 1986-87 NWC-2 34 17 9 8 61 43 43 5/18 1987-88 NWC-1 34 20 7 7 60 42 45 * 4/18 1988-89 NWC-1 34 19 9 6 77 45 47 4/18 1989-90 NWC-1 34 16 12 6 79 50 60 3/18 1990-91 NWC-1 36 22 10 4 85 32 76 2/19 1991-92 NPL-1 42 30 4 8 99 49 94 1/22 1992-93 NPL-P 42 16 6 20 80 79 54 12/22 1993-94 NPL-P 42 18 14 10 74 51 68 6/22 1994-95 NPL-P 42 16 8 18 71 80 56 12/22 1995-96 NPL-P 42 8 21 13 43 57 45 18/22 1996-97 NPL-P 44 11 13 20 60 76 46 16/23 1997-98 NPL-P 42 15 9 18 53 57 54 13/22 1998-99 NPL-P 42 12 13 17 60 71 49 15/22 1999-00 NPL-P 44 12 12 20 46 85 48 20/23 2000-01 NPL-P 44 12 10 22 68 102 46 19/23 2001-02 NPL-P 44 12 11 21 49 82 47 20/23 2002-03 NPL-P 44 5 9 30 52 99 24 22/23 2003-04 NPL-1 42 14 9 19 56 82 51 16/22 2004-05 NPL-1 42 14 13 15 54 62 55 13/22 2005-06 NPL-1 42 15 11 16 56 53 56 12/22 2006-07 NPL-1 46 22 11 13 74 65 77 5/24 2007-08 NPL-1S 42 19 8 15 86 65 65 7/18 2008-09 NPL-1N 40 23 7 10 72 49 73 * 4/21 2009-10 NPL-1N 42 23 6 13 77 57 75 4/22 2010-11 NPL-P 42 24 7 11 67 56 79 2/22 2011-12 CONF-N 42 15 8 19 55 70 53 12/22 2012-13 CONF-N 42 14 7 21 57 78 49 18/22 2013-14 CONF-N 42 14 12 16 63 67 54 12/22 2014-15 CONF-N 42 11 12 19 59 82 45 20/22 2015-16 NPL-P 46 10 8 28 51 95 38 23/24 2016-17 NPL-1N 42 13 11 18 61 57 50 15/22 2017-18 NPL-1N 42 17 10 15 77 58 61 9/22 2018-19 NPL-1W 38 15 7 16 73 66 52 11/20 2019-20 CYMRU-N 24 14 5 5 44 30 47 4/16
Now you’ve seen how an ex-Northern Premier League club’s first season fared since their switch to Welsh football, could you potentially see them flying high in the top tier in the near future?
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