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The Swansea Town team during its first season, 1912–13. Swansea City Association Football Club (Welsh: Clwb Pêl-droed Dinas Abertawe) is a Welsh professional football club based in the city of Swansea, south Wales, that play in the EFL Championship. They play their home matches at the Swansea.com Stadium.
In 2000, Swansea won the fourth tier of the English league, during a time this league was known as the Third Division, due to the 1992 formation of the Premier League. They went back into the fourth tier the following season, until a promotion from the newly named League Two followed, achieving a league finish of third place in the 2004–05 ...
2024–25 Swansea City A.F.C. season This page was last edited on 2 April 2013, at 14:25 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
[3] [4] In July 1961, one of Clough's transfer requests was finally accepted and he moved to Boro's local rivals Sunderland for £55,000. [5] However, a poor start and a final day draw at Swansea saw the team finish third, a point behind Leyton Orient and nine points behind deserved champions Liverpool led by the inspirational Bill Shankly .
Swansea have won 42 of the 115 competitive meetings, compared to Cardiff's 45, who also have the biggest result between the two sides with Swansea losing 5–0 in 1965, with a further 28 drawn; neither team had done the double, until the 2021–22 season where Swansea had completed the first ever double in the 110 year rivalry, beating Cardiff ...
The 1961–62 Football League Cup was the second season of the Football League Cup, a knockout competition for England's top 92 football clubs; only 82 of them took part. [ a ] The competition began on 11 September 1961, and ended with the two-legged final on 26 April and 1 May 1962.
Born in Swansea, Jones began his career at his home town team Swansea Town, signing professional with the club in September 1959. [2] A skilful winger, he soon established himself in the squad, winning the Welsh Cup in 1961, [3] and was transferred to Plymouth Argyle in 1964 for £45,000; which was a club record fee for Plymouth and a British record fee for a winger at the time.
The 1961–62 season was the 63rd completed season of The Football League. ... Swansea Town: 42 12 12 18 61 83 ... 5–2 2–1 4–0 2–0 2–1 0–1 4–1