Date | R | Home vs Away | - |
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02/14 14:00 | 11 | T.N.S. vs Airbus UK | View |
02/14 14:00 | 11 | Denbigh Town vs Llanelli Town | View |
02/14 14:00 | 11 | Caerau Ely vs Connah's Quay | View |
02/14 14:00 | 11 | Cambrian United vs Carmarthen | View |
Date | R | Home vs Away | - |
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12/15 17:30 | 10 | The New Saints vs Colwyn Bay | 4-1 |
12/14 17:20 | 10 | Connah's Quay vs Mold Alexandra FC | 1-0 |
12/14 14:00 | 10 | Airbus UK vs Caersws | 2-0 |
12/14 14:00 | 10 | Afan Lido vs Cambrian United | 1-3 |
12/14 14:00 | 10 | Caerau Ely vs Bala Town | 1-0 |
12/14 14:00 | 10 | Carmarthen vs Holyhead Hotspur | 4-3 |
12/14 14:00 | 10 | Denbigh Town vs Llanuwchllyn | 7-1 |
12/13 19:45 | 10 | Haverfordwest vs Llanelli Town | 0-2 |
11/16 14:30 | 9 | Cambrian United vs Llandudno | 3-2 |
11/16 14:20 | 9 | Ammanford AFC vs Haverfordwest | 10-11 |
11/16 14:00 | 9 | Airbus UK vs Goytre Utd | 7-1 |
11/16 14:00 | 9 | Caerau Ely vs Rogerstone AFC | 8-1 |
The FAW Welsh Cup (Welsh: Cwpan Cymdeithas Pêl-droed Cymru), currently known as the JD Welsh Cup for sponsorship reasons, is a knock-out football competition contested annually by teams in the Welsh football league system. It is considered the most prestigious of the cup competitions in domestic Welsh association football.
The Football Association of Wales (FAW) is the organising body of this competition, which has been run (except during the two World Wars and the COVID-19 pandemic) every year since its inception in 1877–78.
In the early years of organised football in Wales, football was very much the sport of north Wales rather than the rugby union playing south – the FAW was founded in Wrexham in 1876, and Wrexham remained the site of the FAW's head office until 1986; it was not until 1912 that a southern team, Cardiff City, won the Welsh Cup for the first time.
The winning team qualifies to play in the following season's UEFA Conference League (previously teams qualified for the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup, which was discontinued in 1999, and until 2021, qualified for the UEFA Europa League).
Between the 1961–62 and 1984–85 seasons, the final was played as a two-leg match, originally on a points basis rather than aggregate score. In the 1985–86 season, it reverted back to a one game format (though a replay was required in the first two seasons), then changed to have a single game decided by extra time and penalties as necessary.
With six wins, Shrewsbury Town hold the record for the most times an English team has won the Cup, a record that will remain unbroken because English teams have not been allowed to compete in the cup since 1995. The last English winner of the Welsh Cup was Hereford United in 1990.