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Holyhead Hotspur

Club · Wales · FAW Championship

«Hotspur»

111 Matches

29 wins

29 draws

53 losses

137–189 Goals

−52 Difference

1.2 Scored per game

Form L L L D L L

The New Oval holds 2,000 spectators, a tight ground on Anglesey that Holyhead Hotspur moved into in 2007, trading an older home for a stand close enough to the pitch to make the place feel smaller than the number suggests.

The club did not arrive at its current form through a single founding moment. Formed in 1990, it took its lasting shape in 1996, when four local sides merged with Holyhead Hotspur to produce a senior team and a reserve side; a year later the junior club Holyhead Peibio Youth joined the set-up, adding a pipeline into the first team that the club still draws on.

Three Welsh Alliance League titles run through the club's history — 1997-98, 2011-12 and 2019-20 — but the middle one carries the most detail. In 2011-12 Holyhead Hotspur won the league along with the Cookson Cup and the Barritt Cup, a treble that stopped one trophy short of four when Sully Sports beat them 1-2 in the FAW Trophy final. The New Oval would have hosted a quadruple-winning side; instead it hosted a team that fell just short of one.

Jay Gibbs played through that title-winning season, scoring 10 goals in 35 appearances, then left the club before returning for a second spell between 2015 and 2018.

Latest results

All matches

12 Sep	FAW Championship	Newtown AFC H	0:1	L
5 Sep	FAW Championship	Llanuwchllyn A	0:4	L
31 Aug	FAW Championship	Porthmadog FC H	2:2	D
21 Aug	FAW Championship	Bangor 1876 H	2:3	L
15 Aug	FAW Championship	Mold Alexandra A	0:1	L
8 Aug	FAW Championship	Brickfield Rangers H	1:2	L