2022–23 Ardal NE

The 2022–23 Ardal NE season (also known as the 2022–23 Lock Stock Ardal NE season for sponsorship reasons) is the second season of the new third-tier northern region football in Welsh football pyramid, part of the Ardal Leagues.

Ardal NE

Season	2022–23
Champions	Caersws
Promoted	Caersws
Relegated	Rhayader Town Corwen
← 2021–22 2023–24 →

Teams

The league was made up of 16 teams competing for one automatic promotion place to Cymru North, whilst the second-placed team qualified for a play-off with the second-placed team of Ardal NW. The bottom three teams are relegated to Tier 4.

Machynlleth have notified the Football Association of Wales of their withdrawal from the Ardal Leagues. Notifying the league, Machynlleth said: “This decision has come about due to lack of players and commitment".^[1]

The FAW’s National Game Board (NGB) met on Tuesday, July 5 to discuss who will replace Machynlleth after their late exit. It was opted to promote the Denbighshire based team of Llangollen Town out of the options available.^[2]

On 19 July 2022, the league suffered another blow after Berriew became the latest club to withdraw from the North East division.^[3] Explaining their decision, they released a statement that read: “The Club has lost a significant number of senior players during the close season and have not been able to replace them."

With just under three weeks until the league season starts, a reprieve or promotion for any other team remains unlikely given the fixture list has been handed out, so remaining with 15-teams is the most logisitical option.

Team changes

To Ardal NE Promoted from Mid Wales Football League East Division Builth Wells Promoted from North East Wales Premier Division Llangollen Town Relegated from Cymru North Llanrhaeadr Transferred from Ardal NW Llanuwchllyn Transferred from Ardal SE Llandrindod Wells Rhayader Town

From Ardal NE Promoted to Cymru North Chirk AAA Relegated Carno Kerry Four Crosses Withdrew from the league Penparcau Machynlleth Berriew

Stadia and locations

BOW

BWL

CAE

CFN

COR

DOL

LDW

LFU

LGN

LNH

LNC

PYC

RDT

RHO

WEL

Locations of teams in the 2022–23 Ardal NE

Team	Location	Home Ground	Capacity
Bow Street	Rhydypennau	Cae Piod	1,000
Builth Wells	Builth Wells	Lant Fields	1,000
Caersws	Caersws	Recreation Ground	3,500
Cefn Albion	Rhosymedre	The Rock	3,000
Corwen	Corwen	War Memorial Park	1,000
Dolgellau Athletic	Dolgellau	Cae Marian	2,000
Llandrindod Wells	Llandrindod Wells	Lant Avenue Broadway	1,000
Llanfair United	Llanfair Caereinion	Mount Field	2,000
Llangollen Town	Llangollen	Tower Fields	1,100
Llanrhaeadr	Llanrhaeadr-ym-Mochnant	The Recreation Field	1,000
Llanuwchllyn	Bala	Maes Tegid	3,000
Penycae	Pen-y-cae	The SoccerMillion Riverside Arena	2,000
Rhayader Town	Rhayader	The Weirglodd	2,200
Rhos Aelwyd	Rhosllanerchrugog	Ponciau Park	1,000
Welshpool Town	Welshpool	Maes y Dre	3,000

Source: Ardal NE Ground Information

Personnel

Team	Head coach	Captain
Bow Street	Llyr Hughes	Steffan Richards
Builth Wells	Stuart Turpin	Chris Roff
Caersws	Mark Griffiths	Matthew Mumford
Cefn Albion	Ian Andrews	Nathan Williams
Corwen	Ben Heath	Scott Evans
Dolgellau	Owain Williams	Jonathan Sutton
Llandrindod Wells	Gareth Jones	Shaun Nicholls
Llanfair United	Lawrence WIlson	Ben Jones
Llangollen	Luke Maybury	Kristian Jones
Llanrheadr	Mike Barton	Joe Vaughan
Llanuwchllyn	Sion Tudor	Iolo Jones
Penycae	Daniel Richards	Adam Peters
Rhayader	Dai Davies	Joe Wozencraft
Rhos Aelwyd	Aled Parry	Aled Robertson
Welshpool Town	Russell Cadwallader	Ricky Litchfield

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion, qualification or relegation
1	Caersws (C, P)	28	22	3	3	89	26	+63	69	Promotion to Cymru North
2	Cefn Albion	28	18	6	4	74	22	+52	60	Qualification for the Ardal Northern play-off
3	Bow Street	28	17	6	5	66	26	+40	57
4	Llanuwchllyn	28	16	2	10	63	38	+25	50
5	Llanfair United	28	14	3	11	51	49	+2	45
6	Rhos Aelwyd	28	11	8	9	44	38	+6	41
7	Llandrindod Wells	28	12	4	12	55	58	−3	40
8	Builth Wells	28	11	6	11	51	54	−3	39
9	Llanrhaeadr	28	11	4	13	54	63	−9	37
10	Welshpool Town	28	10	3	15	54	67	−13	33
11	Penycae	28	9	6	13	48	64	−16	33
12	Dolgellau Athletic	28	9	3	16	38	59	−21	30
13	Llangollen Town	28	6	8	14	36	62	−26	26
14	Corwen (R)	28	4	7	17	34	80	−46	19	Relegation to Tier 4
15	Rhayader Town (R)	28	4	3	21	23	74	−51	12[a]

Source: Ardal NE
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Goals scored; 4) Matches won; 5) Play-off.
(C) Champions; (P) Promoted; (R) Relegated
Notes:

1. Rhyader Town were deducted three points for fielding an ineligible player.

Results

Home \ Away	BOW	BUI	CAE	CFN	COR	DOL	LDW	LFU	LGN	LRH	LNW	PYC	RHY	RHO	WEL
Bow Street	—	3–2	2–3	2–2	2–2	3–0	2–0	6–0	1–1	4–3	1–1	3–1	4–0	4–0	3–0
Builth Wells	2–0	—	2–0	1–1	2–4		1–1	3–1	4–2	1–2	2–2	2–3	3–1	1–4	3–1
Caersws	0–0	6–0	—	1–1	7–0	5–1	3–0	2–1	2–0	3–0	3–0	2–1	2–1	3–0	5–2
Cefn Albion	1–2	2–0	2–3	—	5–0	5–0	3–1	6–1	7–1	3–0	1–0	2–2	1–0	3–0	5–0
Corwen	1–2	0–0	1–5	0–3	—	1–1	0–7	1–5	3–2	2–4	0–3	1–2	4–0	2–2	0–4
Dolgellau Athletic	0–4	0–2	3–4	0–3	3–0	—	3–1	0–2	2–3	3–2		5–2	1–0	1–0	3–0
Llandrindod Wells	0–4	1–1	1–5	2–1	1–4	1–0	—	2–3	2–1	2–2	0–1	3–1	5–0	2–1	2–1
Llanfair United	1–0	0–3	2–0	2–1	1–0	4–1	0–3	—	1–1	2–0	0–3	2–2	4–0	0–0	6–2
Llangollen Town	0–0	0–0	0–5	0–2	3–3	2–5	4–3	0–3	—	2–1	2–4	1–0	0–0	1–2	2–4
Llanrhaeadr	0–4	1–4	0–6	2–2	4–1	1–0	4–2	4–3	1–3	—	0–4	3–0	10–3	0–0	2–2
Llanuwchllyn	1–2	5–3	1–4	0–3	5–1	2–0	3–4	1–4	0–1	0–1	—	4–1	5–0	1–0	2–1
Penycae	0–3	3–2	1–4	1–1	1–1	1–2	4–1	3–1	1–1	3–1	0–5	—	4–1	2–2	4–6
Rhayader Town	3–1	1–3	0–3	0–5	3–0	2–2	1–2	1–2	1–0	2–1	1–3	0–1	—	1–1	0–1
Rhos Aelwyd	0–3	7–1	2–1	0–1	1–1	1–1		2–0	3–1	1–2	1–0	4–0	3–1	—	3–2
Welshpool Town	2–1	3–0	2–2	1–2	2–1	3–1	3–4	2–0	2–2	1–3	2–5	1–4	3–0	1–2	—

First match(es) will be played: 6 August 2022. Source:
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
For upcoming matches, an "a" indicates there is an article about the rivalry between the two participants.

Top Goalscorers - League Only

As at 16 May 2023
20 Goals: Glunn Coney (Caersws)
18 Goals: Jack Evans (Llandrindod Wells)
15 Goals: Ben Wilson (Llangollen Town)
15 Goals: Callum Mannion (Cefn Albion)
14 Goals: Ryan Knott (Welshpool Town)

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