1879–80 Welsh Cup

1879–80 Welsh Cup

Country	Wales
Champions	Druids
Runners-up	Ruthin
← 1878–79 1880–81 →

First round

Home team	Score	Away team	Additional information
Wrexham 1 – 1 Northwich Victoria
Civil Service Wrexham 1 – 1 Gwersyllt Foresters
Wrexham Albion 2 – 1 Wrexham Grosvenor
Newtown White Star 3 – 0 Dollgelau
Corwen 7 – 3 Bala
Newtown Excelsior 6 – 0 All Saints (Salop)
Aberystwyth 1 – 0 Oswestry
Ruthin 4 – 0 Llangollen

Source: Welsh Football Data Archive
a.e.t. = after extra time; agg. = aggregation score; pen. = decision by penalties.

Replay

Home team	Score	Away team	Additional information
Wrexham 1 – 0 Northwich Victoria
Civil Service Wrexham 0 – 0 Gwersyllt Foresters

Source: Welsh Football Data Archive
a.e.t. = after extra time; agg. = aggregation score; pen. = decision by penalties.

Second Replay

Home team	Score	Away team	Additional information
Civil Service Wrexham 1 – 2 Gwersyllt Foresters

Source: Welsh Football Data Archive
a.e.t. = after extra time; agg. = aggregation score; pen. = decision by penalties.

Oswestry receive a bye to the next round
Mold scratch to Druids
23rd Royal Welch Fusiliers scratch to Rhyl

Second round

Home team	Score	Away team	Additional information
Rhyl 1 – 1 Aberystwyth
Newtown Excelsior 1 – 0 Wrexham Albion
Druids 1 – 0 Wrexham
Newtown White Star 2 – 0 Gwersyllt Foresters
Ruthin 3 – 0 Corwen

Source: Welsh Football Data Archive
a.e.t. = after extra time; agg. = aggregation score; pen. = decision by penalties.

Replay

Home team	Score	Away team	Additional information
Aberystwyth 0 – 0 Rhyl

Source: Welsh Football Data Archive
a.e.t. = after extra time; agg. = aggregation score; pen. = decision by penalties.

Second Replay

Home team	Score	Away team	Additional information
Rhyl 0 – 3 Aberystwyth

Source: Welsh Football Data Archive
a.e.t. = after extra time; agg. = aggregation score; pen. = decision by penalties.

Third round

Home team	Score	Away team	Additional information
Druids 6 – 0 Aberystwyth
Newtown Excelsior 1 – 1 Ruthin

Source: Welsh Football Data Archive
a.e.t. = after extra time; agg. = aggregation score; pen. = decision by penalties.

Replay

Home team	Score	Away team	Additional information
Newtown Excelsior 2 – 4 Ruthin

Source: Welsh Football Data Archive
a.e.t. = after extra time; agg. = aggregation score; pen. = decision by penalties.

Newtown White Star receive bye to semi final

Semi Final

Home team	Score	Away team	Additional information
Druids 3 – 1 Newtown White Star

Source: Welsh Football Data Archive
a.e.t. = after extra time; agg. = aggregation score; pen. = decision by penalties.

Ruthin receive bye to final

Final

Druids v Ruthin

13 March 1880 15:30

Druids	2 – 1	Ruthin
Vaughan, John Jones		Goodwin

Racecourse Ground, Wrexham Attendance: 4,000 Referee: Mr Brooks (Wolverhampton)

Druids

Ruthin

References

• The History of the Welsh Cup 1877-1993 by Ian Garland (1991) ISBN 1-872424-37-6
• Welsh Football Data Archive