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1933–34 Welsh Cup

football tournament season

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 24, 2026
Entity authorityQ27883101 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 1933–34 FAW Welsh Cup is the 53rd season of the annual knockout tournament for competitive football teams in Wales.

Key

League name pointed after clubs name.

B&DL - Birmingham & District League

FL D2 - Football League Second Division

FL D3N - Football League Third Division North

FL D3S - Football League Third Division South

MWL - Mid-Wales Football League

SFL - Southern Football League

WLN - Welsh League North

WLS D1 - Welsh League South Division One

W&DL - Wrexham & District Amateur League

First round

Second round

14 winners from the First round plus two new clubs. Porthmadog and Blaina get a bye to the Third round.

Third round

Seven winners from the Second round, Porthmadog, Blaina plus 13 new clubs. Bethesda Victoria get a bye.

Fourth round

8 winners from the Third round plus Bethesda Victoria and one new club - Merthyr Town. Barry, Penrhiwceiber and Bangor City get a bye to the Fifth round.

Fifth round

Five winners from the Fourth round plus Barry, Penrhiwceiber and Bangor City.

Sixth round

Four winners from the Fifth round plus 12 new clubs.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “1933–34 Welsh Cup” as football tournament season. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Welsh, football and tournament.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1933—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Welsh, football and tournament providing the first useful test.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 24, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q27883101. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1933.

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This entry incorporates text from “1933–34 Welsh Cup” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.