Carmarthen Town A.F.C.


Carmarthen Town Association Football Club is a Welsh semi-professional football club based in Carmarthen. The team play their home games at Richmond Park. The club colours, reflected in their crest and kit, are gold and black.
Formed in 1950, Carmarthen Town was elected into the Welsh Football League in 1953. Their first league honour came in 1959–60, with promotion from Division 2 West to the First Division of the Welsh League. Carmarthen Town's first trophy was the Welsh Football League Cup, which they won in the 1995–96 season. Since then the club have gone on to win the Welsh Cup once and the Welsh League Cup twice. They have also qualified for UEFA competitions on four occasions.
Carmarthen Town currently play in Cymru Premier and have yet to win a league title, despite being in the top tier of Welsh football since 1996–97. The club had their highest finish in 2000–01, with third place, which qualified them for European competition for the first time.

Stadium

From 1952 Carmarthen Town have played at Richmond Park in Carmarthen. The ground has been redeveloped over recent years into a small, modern and compact football stadium with a capacity of 3,000. The club's new Clay Shaw Butler Stand has a 1000-seat capacity which enabled Carmarthen Town to host the club's first home European fixture at the ground in July 2007 when they entertained Norwegian side SK Brann.

Supporters

In the 2012–13 season Carmarthen's average attendance was 296, placing them fourth out of twelve teams in the Cymru Premier. The highest league gate of the season came against Afan Lido FC with 413 spectators and the lowest, 167, against Airbus UK Broughton.

Current squad

Club officials

;Senior club staff
;Coaching and medical staff
The following managers have each been in charge of Carmarthen Town since the club gained promotion to the highest tier in Welsh football, the Cymru Premier, in 1996.
As of January 2014

Honours

The Welsh Football League
Domestic Cup Competition
European Competition

Record wins

SeasonCompetitionRoundOpponentHomeAwayAggregateRefs
2001–02UEFA Intertoto CupFirst round AIK Solna0–00–30–3
2005–06UEFA CupFirst qualifying round Longford Town5–10–25–3
2005–06UEFA CupSecond qualifying round FC Copenhagen0–20–20–4
2006UEFA Intertoto CupFirst round Tampere United1–30–51–8
2007–08UEFA CupFirst qualifying round SK Brann0–83–63–14