The four teams representing Wales in European competition found out their first qualifying round and potential second qualifying round opponents in today’s draw in Switzerland. Champions The New Saints will begin their UEFA Champions League qualifying campaign at home to Europa FC (Gibraltar) on Tuesday 27 June. The Saints will be expected to advance over […]

Four Welsh Premier League sides will learn their European fate later today with the draws for the first two qualifying rounds of the UEFA Champions League and Europa League being made at UEFA’s headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland. The New Saints will represent Wales as the highest seed of the 10 first qualifying round clubs. The […]

Craig Harrison’s departure would have been unwanted but it was ultimately inevitable The New Saints would lose their manager at some point given the club’s continued success. As the club surpassed their own standards cementing record-breaking wins and chasing ‘treble-trebles’, The New Saints will have had little choice but to accept that their manager’s stock […]

Within a week of collecting the Welsh Premier League’s Manager of the Season award for the third year in a row, Craig Harrison is gone from Welsh football and his hugely successful tenure at The New Saints has come to an end. After praising his backroom staff and rival managers in a fashion we’ve become […]

Welsh Premier League champions The New Saints have announced they will be holding a training camp in Scotland next month as they prepare for their forthcoming Champions League qualifying campaign. The Saints will play three behind closed doors games against Aberdeen, St. Johnstone and Rangers prior to what will be their sixth-consecutive Champions League qualifying […]

With the dust barely settled on the current season, The New Saints and Bangor City have both confirmed new arrivals with their respective European qualifiers just six weeks away. The early scheduling of the European qualifying rounds which commence at the end of next month typically give WPL clubs little time to recruit new players. […]

TNS manager Craig Harrison has spoken of his desire to manage at the highest possible level after overseeing his side’s record-breaking campaign. Reports emerged last week linking Harrison with struggling League 2 outfit Hartlepool United to once raised questions over the long-term future of the record-breaking TNS manager. Harrison guided The New Saints to a […]

FT BALA TOWN 2-1 THE NEW SAINTS Bala win the JD Welsh Cup for first time in their history after coming from behind to win Keiran Smith scores late Cup final winner  Substitute Jordan Evans curls in equaliser for Bala Greg Draper taps-in from close-range to give TNS lead Bala goalkeeper named Man of the Match […]

After speaking to Bala Town’s Colin Caton in part one of our Welsh Cup final preview, we spoke with Craig Harrison for a TNS perspective ahead of Sunday’s game. The New Saints head into Sunday’s JD Welsh Cup final against Bala Town determined as ever to capture the latest piece of possible silverware. Victory for the […]

Colin Caton has achieved more than most in his 15-year reign as manager of Bala Town but winning Sunday’s JD Welsh Cup final against The New Saints would be his biggest triumph yet. The 46-year-old has overseen a huge transformation at Bala Town during his managerial tenure, taking the club from the depths of the […]

Current holders The New Saints will look to defend their trophy against Bala Town in this year’s JD Welsh Cup final. Six-time winners TNS left it late before eventually running out comfortable winners in their semi-final against Connah’s Quay on Saturday. In the second tie of the day, Bala Town reached their first ever final […]

Relegation battling Rhyl will head into the final stretch of the Dafabet Welsh Premier League season without influential centre-forward Steve Lewis it has emerged. Lewis limped off late on in Rhyl’s recent 2-2 draw with Aberystwyth and will be sidelined for at least a couple of weeks, with some fearing he could even miss the […]