Here you can read an overview of the club’s first 100 years. Or you can follow the links below to view some items and incidents from that history.
Overviews
A supporters’ history of the South Wales derby
Swansea City and hooliganism: a brief history
Swansea City songs and chants: a brief history
Average league attendances 1921-2016
Swansea City statistics over 100 years
Portraits of every Swans manager
Download whole programmes from across 100 years
History of the Liberty site (White Rock copperworks)
More than just a team of players
1910s
Why Swansea Town joined the Southern League
Some do’s and don’t for players, supporters and directors (1912)
Swansea Town v QPR (1st FA cup run) 1913
Swansea’s first trophy: the 1913 Welsh Cup
Swansea Town’s 1914-15 season as seen through cartoons in Sporting News 1914-15
1914: When football was accused of being unpatriotic
The first giant killing (Blackburn Rovers 1915 FA Cup)
Swansea Town v Newcastle United FA Cup 1915
The Swans give the army a goat
Cardiff City Ladies v Swansea Ladies 1919
1920s and 1930s
West Ham 1922 – How the press reported football
Promotion to Division 2 in 1923
Swansea Town AFC Ltd 1922-23 Annual Report
1920s cigarette cards of players
Swans fans at the 1926 FA Cup semi-final
FA Cup semi-final match report (Bolton Wanderers 1926)
Swansea Town 1926-1927 Handbook
The squad refuses to sign new contracts 1927
Complaining about the music 1934
The Bury dressing room incident 1936
Swansea schoolboys in the 1930s
When the WRU banned a Swans director from rugby 1939
1920s and 1930 images from Getty archive
Newsreel footage of Swansea Town in the FA Cup 1920s and 1930s
1940s and 1950s
The Vetch and the 1948 Olympics
1949 rail excursion to Tottenham Hostspur v Swansea Town
Supporters celebrate promotion 1949
FA Cup round 5: Newcatle United, 1952
The Swans in Charlie Buchan’s Football Monthly
Newsreels of Swansea Town in the FA Cup and Welsh Cup, 1950s and 60s
A visitor describe a trip to the Vetch 1950s
The Swans field an all-Welsh team
1960s and 1970s
1960s scrapbooks of newspaper cuttings
1964: the best team since 1926
1964 FA Cup quarter-final Swansea Town v Liverpool
FA Cup semi final 1964 v Preston NE
Swansea-born International XI v Jimmy Hill’s International XI 1966
Arsenal 1968: a record attendance and the emergence of hooliganism
Swansea’s first Sunday match (Workington 1974)
Swansea make history with a European player
The Robbie James incident 1977
Company AGM/accounts (1977 and 1984) and share records
The appointment of John Toshack
Newsreels of Swansea Town in the FA Cup and Welsh Cup, 1950s and 60s
1980s and 1990s
Fans’ memories of Preston Away 1981
European football in the 1980s
Match day programme covers 1981 to 1984
Company AGM/accounts (1977 and 1984) and share records
Swansea City AFC – Scheme of Arrangement – February 1986
Entry from Supporters Guide to Football League Clubs (4th edn 1989)
Fanzines from the late 1980s and 1990s
Letter from club warning fans about behaviour
2000s
Hull and the great escape 2003
Tony Petty affair newspaper clippings
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