Sully Sports F.C.

Sully Sports Football Club are a Welsh football club from Sully in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales. They play in the South Wales Alliance League Championship Division, which is at the fifth tier of the Welsh football pyramid.

Sully Sports Football Club
Founded1972
GroundSports and Social Club, South Road
ChairmanStephen Greenslade
LeagueSouth Wales Alliance Championship Division
2022–23South Wales Alliance Division One, 8th of 15 (relegated)

History

The origins of the football club can be traced to 1950 when "Barry Plastics Sports and Social was born which had no club room, no sports field but plenty of enthusiasm".[1] Events were organised via three prominent employers - Distillers, Goodrich and British Geon. In 1952, Distillers obtained 37.5 acres of ground at the east end of the village of Sully.[1] The covenant on the land was that one third of the ground would be used by the club and the remaining two-thirds would remain agricultural. The agreement was for 10 years. This led to the first sports pitches and a temporary pavilion being erected. In 1962, a permanent building, the Barry Plastics Sports and Social Club pavilion, was erected and formally opened in June.[1]

BP purchased the chemical and plastics interests of The Distillers Company in 1967 and in 1968 took over the Sports and Social Club, supplying subsidies for the various sections including football.[1]

The football club was formed in 1972.[2]

The team as BP Barry joined Division Two of the South Wales Senior League for the 1992–93 season and were promoted to Division One at the end of the 1997–98 season after finishing as runners-up.[3]

The partnership with BP continued until 1993 when BP Chemicals called a public meeting to discuss their plans to sell half the site for housing and to give the sports club the remainder. Various proposals were considered and BP accepted the Sports and Social Club's proposal to purchase the Market Street and Sully Clubhouses along with their assets for £500,000.[1]

The club changed its name in 2001 to Sully Sports.[4] The club won back-to-back South Wales Senior League titles in the 2005–06 and 2006–07 seasons.[5] The club were turned down for promotion to the Welsh Football League by the Football Association of Wales after the 2005–06 season because of the lack of a permanent stand.[6]

They were again back-to-back champions in the 2011–12 season,[7] where they played South Wales Amateur League champions Llantwit Major in the play-off for promotion to the Welsh Football League[8] but lost the match,[9] and in the 2012–13 season[10] where they lost to AFC Rhoose in the corresponding play-off game.[11]

The club moved to the South Wales Alliance League upon its formation and remained in the Premier Division until the end of the 2019–20 season when they were one of five clubs relegated because of changes to the Welsh Football Pyramid ahead of the 2020–21 season.[12] The 2020–21 season was cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic so instead the club's first season in Division One was 2021–22.

Honours

References
  1. "Sully Sports & Social Club - History: Sully Sports & Social Club - History". Sully Sports & Social Club. Retrieved 8 November 2021.
  2. "About Us". Sully Sports FC. Retrieved 8 November 2021.
  3. "B P Barry". Football Club History Database. Retrieved 7 November 2021.
  4. "Sully Sports". Football Club History Database. Retrieved 7 November 2021.
  5. "Sully Sports AFC hand out trophies". Penarth Times. 19 July 2007. Retrieved 8 November 2021.
  6. Phillips, Terry (22 May 2006). "Sully's legal threat". Wales Online. Retrieved 9 November 2021.
  7. "Sully Sports win FAW Trophy". Wales Online. 16 April 2012. Retrieved 8 November 2021.
  8. Phillips, Terry (23 May 2012). "Sully Sports chasing dream treble". Wales Online. Retrieved 9 November 2021.
  9. "Sully Sports fall at final hurdle as Llantwit earn promotion to Welsh League". Penarth Times. 31 May 2012. Retrieved 10 November 2021.
  10. "Sully Sports finish league-winning campaign in style". Penarth Times. 9 May 2013. Retrieved 8 November 2021.
  11. Rogers, Gareth (26 May 2013). "Paul Giles' Rhoose beat Sully Sports to claim place in MacWhirter Welsh League". Wales Online. Retrieved 9 November 2021.
  12. Jones, Jordan. "South Wales clubs discover promotion and relegation fate". Y Clwb Pel-Droed. Retrieved 8 November 2021.
  13. "Abergavenny crowned FAW Trophy champions". Football Association of Wales. 16 April 2016. Retrieved 8 November 2021.
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