Carno F.C.
| Full name | Clwb Peldroed CARNO Football Club |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1960 |
| Ground | Ty Brith Field Carno |
| Capacity | 400 (100 Seated) |
| Chairman | David Rowlands |
| Manager | Chris Davies |
| League | Mid Wales Football League Division One |
Carno Football Club is an amateur Welsh football team based in the village of Carno. The team competes in the Mid Wales Football League. Division 1. The Club also runs a Reserve team which plays in the Montgomeryshire League Division 2.
The club was formed in 1960 and began life in the Montgomeryshire Amatuer League, eventually winning it in the 1966/67 season (No promotion). Carno would bounce between Divisions 1 and 2 until joining the Mid Wales League Division 2 in 1982, picking up a Montgomeryshire Amateur League Cup along the way. Carno lifted the prestigious Montgomeryshire Cup for the first time in 1983. 1983/84 saw the Mid Wales League merge into one division but a failure to adapt saw Carno drift back to the Montgomeryshire Amateur League Division 2 by the 1985/86 season. A bounce back promotion and a league title in the 1987/88 season lead to promotion back to the Mid Wales League. Carno then reached new heights as they were founding members of the new Cymru Alliance in 1990/91. Sadly in 1995/96 Carno were relegated back to the Mid Wales League. Carno claimed their first Mid Wales League Cup and were crowned Mid Wales League Champions as the millennium drew to a close. By the 2005/06 season fortunes had changed and Carno finished rock bottom (no relegation). Thankfully, better times were to come, league positions improved and the club secured their second Montgomeryshire Cup victory in 2007/08 and their third in the 2013/14 season. The 2015/16 season would be one to remember as Carno reached the last 8 of the FAW Trophy, semi-final stages of both the Radnorshire Cup and League Cup and lifted the Central Wales Cup for the first time. Carno also competed in a second final and third consecutive Montgomeryshire Cup Final. Unfortunately, for the second consecutive year they would be defeated in the final by Llanfair United FC.
From their first game Carno have played at the Recreational Ground now commonly known as Ty Brith. History shows however that originally the ground had been known as "The Gay Meadow". The ground is located in the village itself.
Carno have a strong social media presence through Facebook and Twitter and their Pitchero website is usually around the 200th most visited local club page.
Carno have enjoyed a memorable history having originated from an idea shared by Bernard Evans and Edward Glyn Jones and the late Meirion Rowlands, while in the pub convalescing after a car crash. "When we got better we organised the Carno Football Club idea down the local watering hole," said Bernard Evans, one of the club's founders. "Our first away game was versus Llandinam," continued Bernard, "We took the train from Carno to Moat Lane, but there was no connection to Llandinam, so we had to walk the rest of the way."
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