Aston Park Rangers

Some information about Aston Park Rangers.

INFORMATION

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Founded

1981

Home Town / Village

Aston

Home colours

Sky blue and white vertical striped shirts, black shorts & socks

Nicknames

Rangers, APR

Ground

Ty Calon

GROUND ACCESS

The football ground is situated within the grounds of the Queensferry Learning Campus which contains the local primary school and high school, and is located opposite Deeside Leisure Centre. The entrance to the campus is on the B5129 coast road, with the ground at the end of the road leading into the campus. There is parking available all along the campus road, whilst additional parking is also available either in the car parks of the Deeside Leisure Centre, or the larger Business/Retail Park respectively.

The nearest train station for Aston Park Rangers is Shotton, which is just a 15-minute walk away from the ground if you walk along the B5129 road in the direction of the retail park/leisure centre. It is also around Shotton train station where you will find the nearest pubs, with the Wetherspoons pub The Central Hotel right next to the station, whilst the Clwyd Hotel is just a short distance away from the station also.

Alternatively, you could alight your journey at Chester and get the regular bus services from the walled city towards Shotton. If you get off at the Deeside Leisure Centre bus stop (which is just outside the entrance to the Learning Campus), you can use the 10/10A (Chester to Connah’s Quay/Flint) Arriva bus service, or the 11/11A (Chester to Rhyl via Holywell) Arriva bus service, with both services starting from Chester bus station.

BRIEF HISTORY

Aston Park Rangers is a well-known team within Flintshire that represents the village of Aston but plays their home games in the neighbouring town of Queensferry and they are both part of the contiguous conurbation of Deeside. The club returned to senior football after a five-year hiatus away and restarted its history by competing in the fifth-tier North East Wales Football League Championship, returning for the 2022-23 season where they finished in a respectable fifth position.

Aston Park Rangers are well-known in North East Wales for possessing a successful junior setup since its foundation in 1981, with the club running many junior sides from under 6s to under 16s. Despite being founded in the early 80s, it wouldn’t be until the early 2000s when the club dipped its toe into senior football. APR first competed in the Clwyd Football League structure by starting in Division Two, rapidly rising up the Clwyd League structure, where they won the Division One title in the 2003-04 season, to become regular competitors in the Premier Division of the Clwydian football pyramid. Their highest league placement during this period was two consecutive fifth-place finishes in the 2006-07 and 2007-08 seasons.

When the Clwyd League was dissolved in the early 2010s, the club transferred over to the Clwyd East League / North East Wales League (NEWL), where they finished as runners-up in both the 2012-13 and 2014-15 seasons (behind Point of Ayr and Cefn Albion respectively) but were unable to gain promotion on both occasions. After some difficult seasons competing towards the lower end of the table, the club unfortunately withdrew from the NEWL at the end of the 2016-17 season after finishing in eleventh position in the fourteen-team league. Rangers experienced a five-year hiatus from Welsh senior football before Aston Park Rangers returned to the fold as they joined the North East Wales Football League (NEWFL) Championship for the start of the 2022-23 season. The 2023-24 season will be the club’s second consecutive season in the fifth tier of Welsh football.

FIVE-YEAR LEAGUE HISTORY

SeasonLeaguePositionInfo
2018-19n/an/a
2019-20n/an/a
2020-21n/an/a
2021-22n/an/a
2022-23North East Wales League
Championship		5thFirst season back

HONOURS

Clwyd football league division one

  • 1 [2003-04]

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