Abergavenny Thursdays F.C.

Abergavenny Thursdays F.C.

Abergavenny Thursdays Football Club is a Welsh football team, a founder member of the League of Wales, but now playing in the Gwent County League Division 3.

The club was founded in 1927 in Abergavenny (though several defunct clubs had existed since the mid 19th century) and was highly successful as recently as the early 1990s, but suffered an appalling decline in the following ten years. Thursday was historically half-day closing in Abergavenny (when shops and businesses closed early) thus permitting the team, composed of apprentices, shops boys and local workers to leave work and attend games or training.

Their nickname is either 'The Thursdays', or either 'The Butchers' (due to Abergavenny's famous cattle market and resultant meat markets) or 'The Pennies', as the ground is situated in a part of the town known as Pen-y-pound and cockney rhyming slang for a penny is 'an Abergavenny'. The team's song is "Abergavenny" based on Marty Wilde's 1968 hit song 'Taking a Trip Up to Abergavenny'.