History
Newtown White Stars won the Welsh Cup in 1879 and were losing finalists in 1881. Newtown F.C. won the cup again in 1895, but this was the last national trophy won for sixty years, until the Welsh Amateur Cup was won in 1955. The first match was played at what is now Latham Park in 1951, and the ground has been brought up to a standard which makes it eligible to stage UEFA Youth Internationals and recently UEFA Cup matches.
For most of the years since the 1920s the club operated in the Mid-Wales League, or the Central Wales League as it was sometimes known, winning the championship in 1975–76, 1978–79, 1981–82, 1986–87 and 1987–88 – on the strength of this record, the club gained entry to the English league system in the HFS Loans (Northern Premier) League. In 1992 the club became rather reluctant founder members of the League of Wales, since when it has finished as runners-up in the league in 1995–96 and 1997–98, and played European ties against teams from Latvia and Poland.
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