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| Full name | Airbus UK Broughton Football Club | ||
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| Nickname(s) | The Wingmakers | ||
| Founded | 1946 (as Vickers-Armstrong) | ||
| Ground | Hollingsworth Group Stadium Broughton | ||
| Capacity | 1,600 (500 seated)[1] | ||
| Owner | Broughton Wings Sports and Social Club | ||
| Chairman | Michael Mayfield | ||
| Manager | Mark Allen | ||
| League | Cymru North | ||
| 2023–24 | Cymru North, 3rd of 16 | ||
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Airbus UK Broughton Football Club is a semi-professional football club based in Broughton, Flintshire, Wales. They had their origins as the works team of the Airbus UK aerospace factory where the wings of the Airbus airliner are produced, and are consequently nicknamed The Wingmakers or The Planemakers. They play in the Cymru North.
The club was promoted to the Cymru Premier for the first time in 2004, and play at The Hollingsworth Group Stadium (previously known as The Airfield), Broughton (capacity 1,600, of which 500 are seated); however as their pitch could not be brought up to Cymru Premier standards in time following their promotion, for their first two games they shared Conwy United's ground. The Airfield features three unusual retracting floodlights as it is adjacent to an operational runway. In 2014, the grass surface was replaced with a 3G synthetic pitch. At the end of the 2016–17 season the club were relegated to the Cymru Alliance having finished bottom of the league.
In the 2022–23 season, the club finished with -4 points after being deducted 6 points and losing all but two matches. As a result, they were relegated back to the Cymru North after having been promoted in the 2021–22 season.
- ^ "Stadium". Archived from the original on 1 March 2014. Retrieved 1 March 2014.