Swansea City A.F.C.

Swansea City

Full name	Swansea City Association Football Club
Nickname(s)	The Jacks, The Swans
Foondit	1912 (1912) (as Swansea Town)
Ground	Liberty Stadium, Swansea
Ground Capacity	20,750
Chairman	Huw Jenkins
Manager	Steve Cooper
League	Championship
2022–23	Championship, 10t o 24
Wabsteid	Club wabsteid
Hame colours Awey colours

Swansea City Association Football Club (/ˈswɒnzi ˈsɪti/; Welsh: Clwb Pêl-droed Dinas Abertawe) is a Welsh profeesional fitbaw club based in the ceety o Swansea, Sooth Wales that plays in the Premier League. Swansea City represent Ingland when playin in European competeetions, awtho they hae representit Wales in the past. They play their hame matches at the Liberty Stadium.

The club wis foondit in 1912 as Swansea Town an jyned the Football League in 1921. The club chyngit their name in 1969, when it adoptit the name Swansea City tae reflect Swansea's new status as a ceety.

In 1981, the club wur promotit tae the oreeginal Football League First Division. It wis durin the follaein saison they came close tae winnin the league title, but a decline then set near the saison's end afore feenishin saxt, awtho a club record. It wis frae here the club suffered a relegation the saison efter, returning tae the Football League Fourth Division a few saisons later, then narrowly avoidit relegation tae the Football Conference in 2003. Prior tae playin hame matches at the Liberty Stadium, the team haed previously hostit at the Vetch Field. The Swansea City Supporters Society Ltd awns 20% o the club, wi their involvement hailed bi Supporters Direct as "the maist heich profile example o the involvement o a supporters' trust in the direct runnin o a club".

In 2011, Swansea wur promotit tae the Inglis Premier League, becomin the first Welsh team tae play in it syne its formation in 1992. On 24 Februar 2013, Swansea beat Bradford City 5–0 tae win the 2012–13 Football League Cup (the competeetion's heichest iver winnin margin for the feenal), winnin the first major Inglis trophy in the club's history an qualifyin for the 2013–14 UEFA Europa League.

Honours

The Football League

• Inglis seicont tier (currently Football League Championship)
  • Promoted (1): 1980–81
  • Play-aff winners (1): 2010–11
• Inglis third tier (currently Football League One)
  • Winners (3): 1924–25, 1948–49, 2007–08
  • Promoted (1): 1978–79
• Inglis fowert tier (currently Football League Two)
  • Winners (1): 1999–2000
  • Promotit (3): 1969–70, 1977–78, 2004–05
  • Play-aff winners (1): 1987–88

Domestic Cup Competition

• Football League Cup
  • Winners (1): 2012–13
• FA Cup
  • Semi-feenalists (2): 1925–26, 1963–64
• Football League Trophy
  • Winners (2): 1993–94, 2005–06
• Welsh Cup
  • Winners (10): 1912–13, 1931–32, 1949–50, 1960–61, 1965–66, 1980–81, 1981–82, 1982–83, 1988–89, 1990–91
  • Runners-up (8): 1914–15, 1925–26, 1937–38, 1939–40, 1948–49, 1955–56, 1956–57, 1968–69
• FAW Premier Cup
  • Winners (2): 2004–05, 2005–06
  • Runners-up (2): 2000–01, 2001–02

European Competition

Further information: Swansea City in Europe

• UEFA Cup Winners' Cup
  • Qualification: 1961–62, 1966–67, 1981–82, 1982–83, 1983–84, 1989–90, 1991–92
• UEFA Europa League
  • Qualification: 2013–14

Freemit airtins

• Offeecial wabsteid
• Swans Commercial – offeecial Swansea City commercial site
• Provider McArdle Sport-tec Archived 2014-03-26 at the Wayback Machine – Swansea City's Academy haes achieved Category Two status