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Perthcelyn United Football Club now known as AFC Perthcelyn are a football/soccer team from the Mountain Ash area of the Cynon Valley in South Wales, UK.

The first team used to ground share with Welsh League outfit Aberdare Town...but now play from Deep Duffryn in Mountain Ash, having also played at Pentwyn Field.

The reserves side play on whatever available field the council allocate on a match day within the area.

PERTHCELYN Utd Set up in 1999 as a junior team by the local tenants and residents association, quickly grew and in the mid to late 2000's the club formed a senior team.

Dean Gore from Perthcelyn was the chairman and coach of the junior teams and he formed the senior teams with former semi pro footballer Anthony Jenkins as manager in 2008. Andrew Pryor was secetary up until May 2013.

The club's junior team had success under Dean Gore when they won the Megan Rees cup in 2004, and under 14s league in 2005, and the the u16s also won the Tom Pugsley cup in 2005.

It is however the success of the Mens senior team that is the really story behind Perthcelyn United, which had not had a team in the area since 1976.

Since the 2008-09 season the club's firsts or reserves have won the following honours and in the process went from the lowest tier in the local league of Aberdare and they had reached the heights of the South Wales Amatuer League Div 1.

The honours achieved are as follows

AVFL Div One Champions 2009, 2012, 2014

AVFL Prem Div Champions 2010, 2011

South Wales Amateur Div Champions 2012

Jubilee Cup Winners 2009, 2010

Jack Jones Cup Winners 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2014

Nat West Cup Winners 2011

League Cup Winners 2014

Gilbert Morgan Cup Winners 2009

Gilbert Morgan Cup finalists 2011

South Wales senior cup finalists 2012

In the season 2011-12 in the first season in the South Wales Amatuer League, the Club won the league and gained promotion to Div one at the first time of asking. The club also made its first apperances in the FAW Welsh Cup and FAW Trophy. The club also made it all the way to the final of South Wales Senior Cup Final and Played Cwmbach Royal Stars on May 11th 2012 at the Genquip Stadium in Port Talbot. However a 1-2 defeat meant the boys from the lost city were unable to complete another league and cup double.

The 2012-13 season saw many changes to club personal and long standing chairman Dean Gore and the previous reserve team left to set up a breakaway club, along with the clubs 3rd team, which in turn meant the previous United B and C teams, became Perthcelyn Sports FC and Cynon Rangers FC.

A new reserve team was needed however to support the first teams Amatuer League squad, and another Perthcelyner and incoming Chairman Mark Anthony set up the "new" B team who played in Div 2 of the AVFL league. Mark had previously managed the outgoing B team in the season 2010-11, before joining the 1st team in 2011-12.

The club had hoped to be a Welsh League club within the 3-5 years and also hoped to obtain their own ground, this issue is a long standing problem for all Perthcelyn teams past and present because of the lack of playing facilities in Perthcelyn itself.

At the end of the 2012-13 financial reasons meant that the club who had finished in the bottom 3 of the SWAL div 1.. Had to relinquish their Amatuer league status..a proposed reunion with former reserve team then known as Perthcelyn Sports fell through however and a chain of events led to the club becoming known as AFC Perthcelyn..and this meant the club could survive albeit without the name United in their title. The old players who had left returned and AFC Perthcelyn had the chance to compete..the club were promoted back to the Aberdare League Premier Div for the season 2014-15,

The 2013/14 season ended with Perthcelyn winning the Aberdare league division one championship and also they won the division one league cup beating Hirwaun Sports to both trophies...the club have also won the final of the Jack Jones cup vs FC Abercwmboi to complete a treble of league and cups.

A semi final of the open cup was denied as the club were expelled from the jubilee cup on a technicality for using an unused substitute. The club also reached the semi final of the Gilbert Morgan cup.

In the 2014/15 after the success of the previous season meant however that the majority of the 1st team left to go to clubs in higher divisions. This again left the clubs future in the balance. The club stuck together however and along with a few new faces and a few old faces meant that against the odds the club finished 3rd in the Premier Division of the Aberdare league. The club had to lose its reserve team as they become most of the 1st team...but with certain players like Matthew Dickson coming in bringing in lots of sponsorship deals..the club has become stable on and off the field.

The forthcoming 2015/16 season sees the club add more quality with several Welsh league signings, and the return of the B team and even an Under 16s.

After 7 years of being a men's team, this is the most stable Perthcelyn has been, with every player bar one signing for the new season, and all before June 11th 2015. The club is managed by Mark Anthony and with quality coaching from Welsh League player Gareth Jones and coaches like Dylan Thomas Daniels and Graham Jones and loyal players such as club captain Mario Scaccia, the club are set again to challenge for honours, with the big target being the AVFL Premier league and promotion to the newly formed South Wales Alliance League.