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Penparcau F.C.

association football club in Wales

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 26, 2026
Entity authorityQ7164542 ↗
Source-derived summary

Penparcau Football Club are a Welsh football club from Penparcau, Ceredigion. They play in the Central Wales Southern Division.

The club was reformed in the summer of 2017 and played in the Aberystwyth League Division One.

The club's home colours are black and white striped shirt with black shorts and socks

For the 2021–22 season the club played in the tier 3 Ardal North East and finished in 9th position. After the end of the season the club announced they would be withdrawing from the league and for the 2022–23 season would play in the tier 4 Mid Wales Football League South Division. They cited the cost of match officials, as well as the travel expenses for players for away matches, as well as the requirement of a reserve team as their reasons for their departure.

In 2025–26 they won the Aberystwyth League and confirmed a return to tier four.

Honours

Aberystwyth League Division 1 - Champions (12): 1965–66; 1968–69; 1985–86; 1988–89; 1989–90; 1990–91; 1999–2000; 2000–01; 2004–05; 2007–08; 2018–19, 2025–26

Central Wales Football League Southern Division – Champions: 2023–24

Mid Wales Football League – Champions (1): 2009–10

Mid Wales Football League Division 2 - Champions: 2019–20

J. Emrys Morgan Cup - Winners (2): 2007–08; 2018–19

J. Emrys Morgan Cup - Runners-up (2): 1988–89; 2001–02

Len & Julia Newman Trophy - Winners: 2022–23 (reserves), 2025–26

Aberystwyth League Cup - Winners: 2022–23 (reserves), 2025–26

Current squad

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

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“Penparcau F.C.” enters the record as association football club in Wales. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Penparcau, association and football can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA strong contextual entry point for chronology, institutions and public events when official records are distinguished from later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2017, 2021, 2022, 2025—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1909. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Penparcau, association and football.
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Evidence profile

Chronology, provenance and viewpoint should be read together before a broad social or political interpretation is accepted. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 26, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7164542. Authority coordinates are 52.403, -4.070. 1 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2017, 2021, 2022 and 2025.

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This entry incorporates text from “Penparcau F.C.” 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.