Connah's Quay Nomads Football Club

ABOUT THE CLUB



Connah's Quay Nomads are one of the top teams in Welsh Domestic football.

The club was founded in 1946 by TG Jones as Connah's Quay Juniors and changed the name to Connah's Quay Nomads ahead of the 1951-52 season.

The club's first early success was winning the FAW Youth Cup with a 1-0 victory over Cardiff Nomads in 1948 - just five years later, the club would win the Welsh Amateur Cup with a 3-2 win over Caersws at Wrexham's Racecourse Ground.

It would be some thirty years before the club would again get their hands on silverware as we won the Clwyd League for three consecutive seasons at the beginning of the 1980's followed up with a Cookson Cup win in 1994 and the Barritt Cup in 1995.

The club won the Welsh League Cup for the first time in 1996 thanks to a 1-0 victory over Ebbw Vale.

The Nomads were unfairly relegated from the Welsh Premier League in 2010 as the league was restructured and went on to win the Huws Gray Alliance in consecutive seasons, failing to be promoted the first time due to licensing inefficencies, but returned to the top flight in 2012.

The 2015/16 season saw The Nomads finish fourth in the Dafabet Welsh Premier League, while also reaching the semi finals of both the JD Welsh Cup and theWord Cup. As a result of the fourth placed-finish, The Nomads qualified for the UEFA Europa League Qualifying Rounds where they defeated Norwegian side Stabæk Fotball 1-0 on aggregate and were knocked out in the Second Qualifying Round 3-1 on aggregate by FK Vojvodina of Serbia. 2016 saw The Nomads, in partnership with FAW, open The Quay 3G at Connah's Quay High School. The facility is a state of the art 3G facility which allows The Nomads' First Team and Academy to train on a perfect surface no matter the weather.

A pivotal part of the football club's success, is the thriving and well-established academy program which, since its inception in 2009 from just one single U16s side under current Director of Football Jay Catton, now boasts teams at all age groups from U8s-U19s including a full-time scholarship programme in partnership Coleg Cambria.

In 2018, The Nomads won the Welsh Cup for the first time in our history with a 4-1 victory over Aberystwyth Town in a fantastically organised final at Newtown's Latham Park and shortly after picked up one of the club's most historic victories by knocking Scottish Premiership team Kilmarnock out of the 2018/19 Europa League setting up a second round tie against Partizan Belgrade. The Nomads built on both the domestic and European success by winning back-to-back Cymru Premier titles in 2019/20 and 2020/21 and thus qualifying for the UEFA Champions' League qualifiying stages for two successive seasons.



PDF: Financial Statements for Year Ending 31st December 2022