1989 - A Club Reborn

It is quite often said that Newport County AFC is a 30-year-old club with a 100-year history.

County originally formed in 1912 due to some football-fanatic steelworkers who'd migrated from Birmingham but weren't interested in rugby, which was the sport of choice for the locals. Almost entirely made up of Wolverhampton Wanderers fans, the steelworkers opted for amber as their team colour and began playing on the fields opposite their workplace, Lysaghts.

Fast forward 77 years, and a club with decades of history found itself bankrupted and falling out of existence.

Just three months later, in May 1989 and thanks to the dedication and hard work of 15 key individuals, a "new" Club was formed ... Newport AFC.

The fifteen Directors

The fifteen people who made Newport AFC possible are:

David Hando
Phil Burgess
Ian Bartlett
Martin Greenham
Jayne Greenham
Marc Williams
Dale Williams
Hywel Rees
Steve Pepperall
Mike Everett
Wallace Brown
David Hicks
Colin Jones
Ray Taylor
Dai Williams