Newport County A.F.C.
Newport County Association Football Club is a Welsh football club based in Newport, South Wales. The club participates in the Conference National, the fifth tier of the English football league system. Most recently reformed in 1989, the club is a continuation of the Newport County club founded 1912 and were founder members of the Football League's new Third Division in 1920.
Newport County were Welsh Cup winners in 1980 and subsequently reached the quarter-finals of the European Cup Winners' Cup. The club was relegated from the Football League in 1988 and went out of business in February 1989. The club re-formed shortly afterwards and entered the English football league system at a much lower level. The club achieved promotion to the Conference National for the 2010–11 season, the same level they played at prior to bankruptcy in 1989.
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