Friday, 10 April 2020

WELSH CLUBS IN EUROPE PART TWELVE - CWMBRAN TOWN AFC

1993/94 
Champions League
As inaugural champions of the League Of Wales Cwmbran Town were the first Welsh side to compete in the UEFA Champions League/European Cup. They face Irish Champion's Cork City and were 3-0 up in the first leg only for it to finish 3-2 - they also went 0-1 up in the away leg but lost 2-1 for the tie to end 4-4 and to go out on away goals. Cork City lost to Galatasaray in the next round. 

Preliminary Round 
Cork City W 3-2 L 1-2 (D 4-4*)

1997/98
Cup Winners' Cup
The Crows were runner's up to Welsh Champion's Barry Town so they qualified fro the Cup Winner's Cup. Romanian side 'National Bucresti' who the qualifying round tie 12-2 on aggregate. 

Qualifying Round 
National Burcresti L 2-5 L 0-7 (L 2-12)

1999/00

UEFA Cup
A famous game between Wales and Scotland as following a third placed finish in the League of Wales Cwmbran qualified for the UEFA Cup. Celtic won the tie 10-0 on aggregate - the home game was switched to Cardiff City's Ninian Park with around 3,500 Celtic fans at the game. The full attendance was 8,920 with Eyal Berkovic, Oliver Tebily, Henrik Larsson (2), Mark Viduka and Harald Brattbakk scoring for the Scottish side. The return leg at Celtic Park ended 4-0 in front of 46,975 with Brattbakk, Jamie Smith, Johan Mjallby and Tommy Johnson scoring.

Qualifying Round
Celtic L 0-6 L 0-4 (L 0-10) 

2000

Intertoto Cup 
A third placed finish in the league gave Cwmbran a place in the 2000 Intertoto Cup where they placyed Moldovan side FC Nistru Otaci who won both leg's 1-0 to go through 2-0 on aggregate in their first round tie. 

Qualifying Round 
FC Nistru Otaci L 0-1 L 0-1 (L 0-2)

2001/02
UEFA Cup
A second placed finish in the league qualified them for the UEFA Cup once more. This time Slovakian team Slovan Bratislava won 0-5 on aggregate. 

Qualifying Round 
Slovan Bratislava L 0-4 L 0-1 (L 0-5) 

2003/04

UEFA Cup
Cwmbran Town's last appearance to date in European Competition was against Maccabi Haifa of Israel who won 0-6 on aggregate in their qualifying round game. 

Cwmbran Town, after a number of relegations, now play in the Gwent County League Premier Division which is currently step five on the Welsh pyramid. 

From playing in the same 1993 competition as Manchester United, Barcelona and AC Milan they faced teams such as Ynysddu Welfare, PILL YMCA and Newport Civil Service during the 2019/20 campaign. 

Qualifying Round
Maccabi Haifa L 0-3 L 0-3 (L 0-6) 



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