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==History== [[File:AberdareAthletic.jpg|thumb|right|The Aberdare team of 1908β09.]] ===Foundation=== Founded in 1893, Aberdare were [[Welsh Cup]] runners-up in 1903β04, 1904β05 and 1922β23. In 1920β21, they joined the Welsh Section of the [[Southern Football League|Southern League]] and finished runners-up in their first season. That gained them entry to the [[Football League Third Division South]] for the next season along with [[Charlton Athletic]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.fchd.info/ABERDARA.HTM|title=Football Club History Database - Aberdare Athletic|website=www.fchd.info|access-date=4 February 2019}}</ref> ===League football=== {{See also|1921β22 Aberdare Athletic F.C. season}} Despite a promising start in league football, finishing 8th in the [[1921β22 Aberdare Athletic F.C. season|1921β22]] season, Aberdare suffered financial instablility throughout the 1920s. The club merged with [[Aberaman Athletic F.C.|Aberaman Athletic]] in 1926 with the first team competing in the Football League under the name Aberdare Athletic, while the reserve team played in the [[Welsh Football League|Welsh League]] under the name Aberdare & Aberaman Athletic.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Johnes |first1=Martin |title=Soccer and Society: South Wales, 1900-1939 |date=2002 |publisher=University of Wales Press |isbn=9780708317419 |page=156}}</ref> However the merged clubs still had to operate on a tight player budget meant it was unable to secure new players. In the [[1926-27 in English football|1926β27]] season, Aberdare Athletic finished bottom of the Third Division South and failed to gain [[re-election (Football League)|re-election]] to the League, with Torquay United taking their place.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Johnes |first1=Martin |title=Soccer and Society: South Wales, 1900-1939 |date=2002 |publisher=University of Wales Press |isbn=9780708317419 |page=156}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thepyramid.info/stats/updownyear.htm|title=The Pyramid.info: Promotion to/Relegation from the Football League by year|website=www.thepyramid.info|access-date=4 February 2019}}</ref> Aberdare's loss of their Football League place was controversial. In the first ballot, Aberdare and Southern League side Torquay, the latter having previously applied to join the League in 1923, tied with 21 each. That round of voting was marred by controversy as the potentially tie-breaking ballot was reported to be "spoilt" and Aberdare's secretary claimed that one of the scrutineers was "an interested party". Aberdare lost the second ballot with 19 votes to Torquay's 26; fellow League side Watford, who had finished second-bottom, were comfortably re-elected with 44 votes.<ref>[http://www.nonleaguematters.co.uk/forum/gforum.cgi?do=post_attachment;postatt_id=3506; nonleaguematters β A history of admission to the Football League<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> The club now fully adopted the name "Aberdare & Aberaman Athletic", and rejoined the Southern League. ===Decline=== The club only survived for another season, and in 1928, the Aberaman faction split away to re-form Aberaman Athletic, while the Aberdare half folded. Aberdare & Aberaman Athletic was again re-formed in 1945, but that side also split in 1947. [[Aberdare Town F.C.]] continue to play in the [[Welsh Football League]] today.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.historicalkits.co.uk/Aberdare_Athletic/Aberdare_Athletic.htm|title=Aberdare Athletic - Historical Football Kits|website=www.historicalkits.co.uk|access-date=4 February 2019}}</ref>
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