The Welsh Football League (also known as the Nathaniel Car Sales Welsh Football League for sponsorship reasons) was a club football league in Wales . For its final season in 2019–20 season it operated at levels 3 and 4 of the Welsh football league system . Level 3 – the Welsh Football League Division One and level 4 Welsh Football League Division Two . It folded in 2020 after the Football Association of Wales took over the running of tier 3 leagues and the responsibility for tier 4 passed to regional football associations.
6-655: The Welsh Football League Division Three , (last known as the Nathanielcars.co.uk Welsh League Division Three , for sponsorship reasons) was a football league. Until the 1964–65 season the Welsh Football League operated three divisions, Division One, and two regional Division Two leagues, East and West within the Welsh football league system in South Wales . From the 1964–65 season this changed with Division One becoming
12-588: A new football league would be formed in addition to the South Wales League which had been in existence since 1891. This new competition would be named the Rhymney Valley League and the reason for its creation was due to the South Wales League being overly dominated by Cardiff clubs, though the number of teams from Cardiff barely numbered more than a couple in any one season. Division One of
18-624: The League of Wales for the 1992–93 season, the Welsh Football League moved to levels two, three and four of the Welsh football pyramid, and adopted the titles of Division One, Division Two and Division Three respectively. After the creation of the Cymru South , for the 2019–20 season, the league was rebranded as the Welsh Football League Division Two and Division Three was defunct. If
24-757: The Premier Division and Division Two renamed as Division One . Following these changes, a Tier 3, Division Two was created. operated under the Division Two title. From 1983-84 season, the Premier Division changed its name to the National Division and the First Division adopted the Premier Division With these changes the third tier Division Two was renamed 'Division One' With the creation of
30-610: The Welsh Football League ) as Division Three (Tier 4 of the Welsh Football Pyramid) Welsh Football League The Welsh Football League's history stretches back to 1904 when the competition was first formed and Aberdare were crowned first champions of a seven-team First Division. Abergavenny were champions of Division 2 and Trelewis the winners of Division 3. In April 1904, the Merthyr Express newspaper reported that
36-500: The team which finished top of the Division had good enough ground facilities, it was promoted to the Welsh Football League Division Two and was replaced by the team finishing bottom of Division Two. The team finishing in bottom position of the division was relegated to one of the local leagues. as Division Two (Tier 3 of the Welsh Football League ) as Division One (Tier 3 of the Welsh Football League ) as Division Two (Tier 3 of
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