# Montgomeryshire Football League

The Montgomeryshire Football League (currently the JT Hughes Football League) is a football league in Mid Wales, sitting at the fifth level of the Welsh football league system.
The league hosts several cup competitions. These include: The Emrys Morgan Cup, Montgomeryshire Cup, Village Cup, Tanners Town Cup, League Cup and Consolation Cup.
Teams promoted from Division One may enter the Central Wales Football League if standards and facilities fall into line with the regulations and criteria of the FAW and Mid Wales Football League (Tier 4 of the Welsh Football Pyramid).

## History

The league was founded in 1904 as the Montgomeryshire & District League, and the first ten seasons before the First World War saw the league dominated by Aberystwyth Town, who won the inaugural title and two other championships, and Llanidloes who won five titles.
After the war, the league was reformed for a single season with Newtown picking up their only title (to date), before the league went into abeyance with the creation of the Welsh National League setup. The league returned in the 1930s as the Montgomeryshire Junior League and ran until the outbreak of the Second World War, when football was again suspended.
The 1950s were notable for five successive titles for Rodney Rovers, a club from Four Crosses, who played behind the Golden Lion public house.
The 1967–68 saw the league expand to two divisions, a format that continued until the 2021–22 season.
It has also been known as the Montgomeryshire Amateur League.

## Member clubs for 2024–25 season
### Division One

* Abermule (reserves)
* Berriew (reserves)
* Felindre
* Forden United (reserves)
* Four Crosses (reserves)
* Kerry (reserves)
* Llandrindod Wells (reserves)
* Llanfair United (reserves)
* Llanfechain
* Llangedwyn
* Newcastle
* St Harmon
* Trefonen
* Waterloo Rovers (reserves)

## Champions
### One division structure

| Season | Division One |
| 2023-24 | Llangedwyn |
| 2022-23 | Llangedwyn |
| 2021-22 | Meifod |

### Two division structure

| Season | Division One | Division Two |
| 2020-21 | Season cancelled - Covid-19 pandemic | Season cancelled - Covid-19 pandemic |
| 2019-20 | Guilsfield reserves | Newtown Wanderers |
| 2018-19 | Guilsfield reserves | Llanrhaeadr reserves |
| 2017-18 | Bishops Castle Town | Forden United |
| 2016-17 | Waterloo Rovers | Bishops Castle Town |
| 2015-16 | Llanfair United reserves | Forden United |
| 2014-15 | Bettws (Cedewain) | Morda United |
| 2013-14 | Llanfair United reserves | Bettws (Cedewain) |
| 2012-13 | Caersws reserves | Llandrinio |
| 2011-12 | Caersws | Llanfair United reserves |
| 2010-11 | Llanidloes Town reserves | Welshpool Town reserves |
| 2009-10 | Llanidloes Town | Trefonen |
| 2008-09 | Llansantffraid Village | Welshpool Town reserves |
| 2007-08 | Dyffryn Banw | Llansantffraid Village |
| 2006-07 | Bishop's Castle Town | The New Saints Colts |
| 2005-06 | Total Network Solutions reserves | Waterloo Rovers reserves |
| 2004-05 | Four Crosses | Llanfyllin Town reserves |
| 2003-04 | Welshpool Town reserves | Four Crosses |
| 2002-03 | Llangedwyn | Welshpool Town reserves |
| 2001-02 | Bettws (Cedewain) | Forden United |
| 2000-01 | Llanfyllin Town | Berriew |
| 1999-00 | Llangedwyn | Kerry Reserves |
| 1998-99 | Waterloo Rovers | Llanwddyn |
| 1997-98 | Meifod | Forden United |
| 1996-97 | Waterloo Rovers | Welshpool Town reserves |
| 1995-96 | Kerry | Llanrhaeadr |
| 1994-95 | Guilsfield | Llanfyllin Town |
| 1993-94 | Mochdre | Newtown Rangers |
| 1992-93 | Llansantffraid reserves | Mochdre |
| 1991-92 | Llansantffraid reserves | Meifod |
| 1990-91 | Berriew | Llanymynech Rovers |
| 1989-90 | Llanfair Caereinion | Waterloo Rovers |
| 1988-89 | Llanfair Caereinion | Llanfechain |
| 1987-88 | Berriew | Guilsfield |
| 1986-87 | Llansantffraid | Llangedwyn |
| 1985-86 | Llanfair Caereinion | Carno |
| 1984-85 | Llanfair Caereinion | Llanrhaeadr |
| 1983-84 | Bettws (Cedewain) | Forden United |
| 1982-83 | Llansantffraid | R & Q Sports |
| 1981-82 | Welshpool Rangers | Berriew |
| 1980-81 | Llanfyllin Town | Llansantffraid |
| 1979-80 | Llanfechain | Carno |
| 1978–79 | Llanfyllin Town | Llanfair United reserves |
| 1977-78 | Caersws reserves | Carno |
| 1976–77 | Llanfyllin Town | Caersws reserves |
| 1975-76 | Montgomery Town | Carno |
| 1974–75 | Llanfair United | Newtown Amateurs |
| 1973–74 | Llanfyllin Town | Montgomery Town |
| 1972–73 | Llanfair United | Llanfyllin Town |
| 1971-72 | Llanwddyn | Abermule |
| 1970–71 | Llansantffraid | Welshpool Amateur reserves |
| 1969–70 | Llansantffraid | Llanwddyn |

### One division structure

Those years empty are not known.
* 1968–69: – Llansantffraid
* 1967–68: –
* 1966–67: – Carno
* 1965–66: – Llanrhaeadr
* 1964–65: – Forden United
* 1963–64: – Newtown Amateurs
* 1962–63: – Forden United
* 1961–62: – Trewern United
* 1960–61: – Berriew
* 1959–60: – Montgomery Town
* 1958–59: – Montgomery Town
* 1957–58: – Rodney Rovers
* 1956–57: – Rodney Rovers
* 1955–56: – Rodney Rovers
* 1954–55: – Rodney Rovers
* 1953–54: – Rodney Rovers
* 1952–53: – Montgomery Town
* 1951–52: – Llanfechain
* 1950–51: – Llanfechain
* 1949–50: – Llandrinio
* 1948–49: – Llandrinio
* 1947–48: – Llanfair United
* 1946–47: – Llanfair United
* 1945–46: – Football suspended - World War Two
* 1944–45: – Football suspended - World War Two
* 1943–44: – Football suspended - World War Two
* 1942–43: – Football suspended - World War Two
* 1941–42: – Football suspended - World War Two
* 1940–41: – Football suspended - World War Two
* 1939–40: – Football suspended - World War Two
* 1938–39: – Caersws
* 1937–38: – Caersws
* 1936–37: – Guilsfield
* 1935–36: –
* 1934–35: – Newtown C C
* 1920–21: – League went into abeyance with the creation of the Welsh National League setup (started again in 1930s, but unclear which season)
* 1919–20: – Newtown
* 1918–19: – Football suspended - World War One
* 1917–18: – Football suspended - World War One
* 1916–17: – Football suspended - World War One
* 1915–16: – Football suspended - World War One
* 1914–15: – Football suspended - World War One
* 1913–14: – Llanidloes
* 1912–13: – Llanidloes
* 1911–12: – Llanidloes
* 1910–11: – Llanfyllin
* 1909–10: – Llanidloes
* 1908–09: – Llanidloes
* 1907–08: – Aberystwyth Town
* 1906–07: – Aberystwyth Town
* 1905–06: – Newtown North End
* 1904–05: – Aberystwyth Town

### Titles by team

* Llanfair United/ Llanfair Caereinion/ reserves – 10 titles
* Llansantffraid/ TNS / reserves – 8 titles
* Llanidloes – 6 titles
* Llanfyllin – 5 titles
* Rodney Rovers – 5 titles
* Caersws/ Caersws reserves – 4 titles
* Llangedwyn – 4 titles
* Aberystwyth Town – 3 titles
* Berriew – 3 titles
* Bettws (Cedewain) – 3 titles
* Guilsfield/ Guilsfield reserves – 3 titles
* Llanfechain – 3 titles
* Montgomery Town – 3 titles
* Waterloo Rovers –3 titles
* Bishop's Castle Town – 2 titles
* Forden United – 2 titles
* Llandrinio – 2 titles
* Meifod – 2 titles
* Carno –1 title
* Dyffryn Banw – 1 title
* Four Crosses – 1 title
* Kerry – 1 title
* Llansantffraid Village – 1 title
* Llanrhaeadr – 1 title
* Llanwddyn – 1 title
* Mochdre – 1 title
* Newtown - 1 title
* Newtown Amateurs – 1 title
* Newtown C C – 1 title
* Newtown North End – 1 title
* Trewern United – 1 title
* Welshpool Rangers – 1 title
* Welshpool Town reserves – 1 title