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Welcome to Evans & Williams FC web site. We are a club that will be celebrating our 50^th year in 2010, so here’s a little intro to our club.

The club was formed in 1960 by some workers from the Evans & Williams wagon works. The club was given it’s nickname “ Albies “ after one of the founder members-Albie Evans.

The club played it’s 1^st competitive match on 20^th August 1960. They played Trostre in the 2^nd division of the Carmarthenshire League and recorded a 4-2 victory with goals from J.Stevens, D.North, G.Morris and M.Davies.

In 1962/63 the club won promotion to the 1^st division and finished 4^th in it’s 1^st time in the top division. In 1964 the club formed a reserve team that finished it’s 1^st season as runners up in reserve division 2. The first major final the club reached was in 1967 which turned out in a 5-3 extra time loss to Pengelli in the Senior cup. However the reserves made amends when they won the Darch Cup by beating Llanelli Steel 2-1 in 1969.

The 70’s saw a successful period for the club with a Challenge Cup win, promotion to the Premier and a 3^rd position finish, also the club reached 2 Star cup finals only to be beaten twice.

The 80’s however weren’t so kind to the club with 1^st team relegated two years in a row and disbanding the reserve team. The end of the 80’s saw the 1^st team relegated once again to finish in the lowest division, there was a little silver lining though with the return of the reserves and an under 14’s side that reached two junior finals.

The 90's faired a lot better for Albies, with Anthony Yash Rees and Fred Smith coming in as managers bringing a lot of young players to add to the squad that was already there. 1992 the 1^st team got promoted to the 2^nd division and it was the year after that saw a change in management. 1993 saw a well needed influx of youth which mixed really well with the experience that was already at the club. This saw the 1^st team promoted once again to the 1^st division. Albies stayed in division 1 for 6 years until they won the Championship in 98/99. Along the way they made it to the Challenge Cup final twice only to lose out. The reserves weren’t going to leave the 1^st team have all the fun, getting promoted from division 3 in 95/96 and up to division 1 in 97/98.

LEFT TO RIGHT BACK ROW: Lee Timbrell, Paul Rees, Guy Caton, Terry Galloway, Gary Evans, Ian Meredith, Dean Finan, Wayne Presscott, Mathew Williams, Stuart Mahoney, Johnathan Booth, Ben Gregory, Simon Roberts, Johnny Perrott, Meurig Morris and Dean Fisher.

FRONT ROW: Dean Davies, Wayne Rogers, Matthew Thomas, Phill Williams, Gareth Hickman, Robert Thomas, David Thomas, Darren Mould, Robert Jones, Matthew Smith and Neil Williams.

With only a year left in the 00’s the club has had it’s ups and downs. While the club remained mainly a middle table outfit, they had to battle relegation twice but have also won the Senior Cup and TG Davies Cup, got to the semi final of the West Wales Cup, been to Steboneath on many occasions and finished runners up in the Premier Division for the past 2 years.

What will 2010 bring, who knows? But it’s looking up!

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