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TNS know all too well of the ever-developing quality of top flight football in Wales. New Saints have won the Welsh title 13 times. When Oswestry Town was on the verge of bankruptcy in 2003, Harris bought them as well and merged the club with their Welsh neighbours. The Football Association of Wales (FAW) ratified the merger on 14 August 2003 as did UEFA eventually, despite its initial objection to a merger of two clubs with different governing bodies. Rafael Benitez had taken time to get results at Anfield. The crest of Total Network Solutions (T.N.S.) Popular or not, TNS’s dominance of Welsh football appears to be here to stay. after its sponsor. “He defines what’s wrong with Welsh football. A dragon (see below) represents Llansantffraid and a lion Oswestry. This alongside all players being given full-time contracts and more money being invested into the club made TNS the dominant force it is today. Match Day Experience Newsletter Signup Contact Us Contact Us Media Accreditation Request Store Cart Foundation LATEST NEWS. [3] After UEFA reached a compromise by which Liverpool were placed in the first qualifying round of the competition, TNS and Liverpool ended up drawn against one another anyway. Ahead of kick-off yesterday (April 17) in the JD Cymru Premier, we chatted with Gary Brabin for the first time. In 1996, Llansantffraid won the Welsh Cup and qualified for the first time for the European Cup Winners' Cup. “It looks like we’re going to go down because we don’t have the money to compete with TNS. Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. TNS Ladies U16 Football Club. TNS founder and major shareholder Mike Harris, managing director of the club and the company, said, "The football club will continue without the sponsorship of the company from the end of this season. Records reveal a very public spat with the town’s Christ College side the previous year following a match and perhaps this marked the end of Mr Davies’ interest in association rules. There have also been incidents throughout Harris’s tenure as TNS owner that have not endeared him to opposition fans. I think that sums him and TNS up. The new TNS crest/badge was developed at the same time and is an amalgam of the symbols and names of the former Llansantffraid and Oswestry Town football club. [11] The Saints advanced to play Belgian Pro League Champions and European Giants R.S.C. Some of the ire can be traced back to TNS owner and chairman Mike Harris. The New Saints were crowned 2009–10 Welsh Premier League Champions. The club took action against the governing body after Connah’s Quay Nomads were named Cymru Premier champions in May after the 2019-20 season was curtailed due to the coronavirus pandemic. During the 2005–06 off-season, after newly crowned Champions League winners Liverpool were initially denied a place in the next season's competition, TNS offered to play a one-legged tie against the Reds for TNS's place in the first qualifying round. Harris’s investment meant the side moved to Oswestry’s former home Park Hall, which went through a £3 million overhaul, leaving behind the club’s Llansantffraid heritage. Cwmbran Town, managed by Tony Wilcox, took the first title and became the first League of Wales club to play in Europe when they took on Cork City in the preliminary round of the Champions Cup in August 1993. The 2004–05 season proved much more successful, as TNS won a League and Cup double. "I’ve really enjoyed being at TNS, from day 1 all players and staff made me feel extremely welcome, and obviously winning my debut match in Europe against MSK Zilina was a dream start for myself and really helped me settle in" "I just hope and aim to contribute positively to the club in any way I possibly can." But as the gap has widened, so has the connection with the people TNS would hope to be attracting in the turnstiles each week. In 1997, Harris bought Llansantffraid, a small club in the village of Llansantffraid-ym-Mechain in Powys, with a population of less than 1,500 people. Everyone in the North American Soccer League hated the New York Cosmos because they had more money and won everything, but without a benchmark for clubs to aspire to, MLS hasn’t grown as quickly as hoped. For a while, the Welsh football outfit TNS were the answer to a quiz question: which is the only club in the world named solely after a business enterprise? The New Saints Football Club (Y Seintiau Newydd en gallois, club nommé de 1997 à 2006 Total Network Solutions Football Club ou TNS, d'après le sponsor Total Networks Solutions) est un club de football du pays de Galles d'un village de moins de 1 000 habitants, Llansantffraid. Llansantffraid Village was set up in 2008 by volunteers of the original football club in Llansantffraid who wanted to preserve football in their village and currently play in the Mid Wales Football League East Division, three tiers below the Cymru Premier. 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Embed from Getty Imageswindow.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'Hpe7dPCCQ19gTkAt9ZZTHA',sig:'rh4AOttIMwGtjasq__v2vJTgYhEBEEn5Y13wo8n14gw=',w:'594px',h:'380px',items:'525843128',caption: true ,tld:'co.uk',is360: false })}); Unsurprisingly, this wasn’t popular and Harris became a divisive figure. On 10 February 2010, the BBC reported that the New Saints had applied to play home games at Chester City's Deva Stadium in 2010–11, after having been turned down for a grant to help fund the construction of a new 1,000-seat stand at Park Hall. They first tasted competitive football in the Montgomeryshire Amateur Football League (then the fourth level of the Welsh football league system), winning the championship seven times. Jamie Vardy: Non-league team-mates discuss the Leicester star’s early years. He’s threatened people with lawsuits before on Twitter over calling him out on homophobia. In 2003, it merged with Oswestry Town F.C. But despite the trophies and records they’ve gathered readily in recent years, one thing is still missing: fans. 18th April 2021. After a trawl for new naming ideas, including an attempt to sell the naming rights on eBay, the name "The New Saints" was agreed upon as appropriate to the history of both of the originally merged clubs: Llansantffraid was always known as "The Saints"; Oswestry had strong connections with Saint Oswald; while the club's name was already abbreviated to "TNS". Sponsor the 2020 JD Cymru Premier Champions. February 19, 2021 February 19, 2021. Football quiz: Can you name England’s last 20 goalkeepers? Founded in 1959 as Llansantffraid F.C., from 1997 to 2006, the club was known as Total Network Solutions F.C. Harris, who didn’t respond when asked to speak to The Set Pieces, has overseen a monopolisation of the Welsh top flight in the past decade. Barry have won seven league titles.”. Wales - The New Saints FC - Results, fixtures, squad, statistics, photos, videos and news - Soccerway And they’ll be hoping more success will eventually bring more fans and more money to Park Hall. The financially weaker club was a close neighbour to TNS, and also played in the League of Wales despite being based across the border in Shropshire. to represent the tiny border village of Llansantffraid-ym-Mechain (population: 1,000) in 1959, and played at the Recreation Ground. ",[13] since updated to "dancing in the streets of the New Saints". The Oswestry club actually provided seven members of the Welsh team which faced England in an 1879 … After a successful period that included three league titles and a Welsh Cup, Total Network Solutions – the company not the club – were sold to BT in 2006 and the club were renamed The New Saints. They play in the Cymru Premier, where they have won a record thirteen titles – including eight seasons in a row between 2012 and 2019. An Exclusive, As We Chat With Our New Sporting Director For The First Time . As Total Network Solutions Llansantffraid F.C. On 30 December 2016, The New Saints defeated Cefn Druids 2–0 in the Cymru Premier. [7] Chester City were liquidated a month later by HMRC; in any event, the New Saints were granted a domestic licence by the FAW in April 2010 and remained at Park Hall for 2010–11 season. and three years later it adopted its current name. The Nomads secured our second successive European place thanks to a 2-0 victory over Bala Town. [15], The club's Futsal side has also seen success, having been winners of the inaugural FAW Futsal Cup in 2011 and reaching the final in 2012.[16]. Mr Justice Marcus Smith rejected the challenge, brought by The New Saints (”TNS”), a club sitting in second position in the Cymru Premier League (“CPL”) when football was suspended in March. Harris was also investigated by the FAW for homophobia in August 2019 after he referred to Connah’s Quay as “Connah’s Queers” on his Twitter account. In 1997 the club's name was changed to Total Network Solutions F.C., being the first instance in the United Kingdom of a football club renaming itself after its sponsor's name only. Club News Teams 2020/21 Fixtures Archive Results First Team First Team Technical Staff Academy TNS Ladies Club Information Who’s who Admission Pricing and Tickets Fans’ Guide To Park Hall Hospitality, Advertising & Sponsorship Club Charters Club History About the Stadium They lost the first leg 1–0 at Dalymount Park in Dublin on 13 July 2010. Unofficial TNS ladies U16 Football Team part of the TNS Family Stronger together Liverpool won the first leg at Anfield 3–0 thanks to a Steven Gerrard hat-trick. There have also been incidents throughout Harris’s tenure as TNS owner that have not endeared him to opposition fans. Llansantffraid Village was set up in 2008 by volunteers of the original football club in Llansantffraid who wanted to preserve football in their village and currently play in the Mid Wales Football League East Division, three tiers below the Cymru Premier. The New Saints (Noví svatí) je britský fotbalový klub, vzniklý v roce 2003 sloučením velšského TNS Llansantfraed a anglického Oswestry Town. Association football club in Whittington, England, After the cancellation of the season due to the, Llansantffraid elected to the Central Wales League at the end of the season, Llansantffraid Reserves were also Champions of Montgomeryshire Amateur Football League, Division 1 (5th title), Llansantffraid Reserves were also Champions of Montgomeryshire Amateur Football League, Division 1 (6th title), As Total Network Solutions Llansantffraid F.C, a football club renaming itself after its sponsor's name only, List of association football clubs playing in the league of another country, "Saints crowned Champions for thirteenth time", "The New Saints F.C. In … Following the financial meltdown of Barry Town in the summer of 2003, TNS became the only Cymru Premier club which had a full-time playing staff. They’ve been stalwarts of this league, they’ve been stalwarts of TNS Football Club, they’ve been with them 15 years each. 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The club's European home games are generally played at either Newtown's or Wrexham's stadium as their old Recreation Ground was far below UEFA's standards (though for their 2003 meeting with Manchester City, they played their home game at the 72,000-seat Millennium Stadium in Cardiff). To comply with UEFA's regulations on third-party sponsorship, the club were known by their initialism TNS by the European governing body in their competitions. #OnThisDay in 2017. In all, it makes TNS a difficult club to warm to. Klub je účastníkem nejvyšší velšské soutěže (Welsh Premier League). “I remember when we beat them there 1-0 a few years back the small number of fans they have tried singing ‘stand up if you’ve won the league’. It’s a shame really, as I believe the Cymru Premier has a lot of potential, but it also shows that money is everything in football nowadays.”. They definitely bring money and the exposure into a league that doesn’t have much, although it does make the title race a little bit boring with them winning it every season, which is why it was so nice to see Connah’s Quay win it last year. TNS play at Park Hall in Oswestry after moving there in 2007 from the Recreation Ground in Llansantffraid. The 2003–04 season was trophyless for TNS as they finished runners-up in the League of Wales to Rhyl and were beaten finalists in the Welsh Cup, also to Rhyl. In the second leg, played at Wrexham, Gerrard added two goals after coming on as a substitute to Djibril Cissé's opening tally for another 3–0 Liverpool victory. Il joue actuellement dans le Championnat du pays de Galles de football. Their careers have been fantastic. They play in the Cymru Premier, where they have won a record thirteen titles – including eight seasons in a row between 2012 and 2019.[1]. 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