Full name | The New Saints of Oswestry Town & Llansantffraid Football Club | |||
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Nickname(s) | The Saints, TNS | |||
Short name | TNS | |||
Founded | 1959 | |||
Ground | Park Hall Oswestry, Shropshire, England | |||
Capacity | 3,000 (3,000 seated) | |||
Chairman | Mike Harris | |||
Manager | Craig Harrison | |||
League | Cymru Premier | |||
2023–24 | Cymru Premier, 1st of 12 | |||
Website | tnsfc.co.uk | |||
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The New Saints of Oswestry Town & Llansantffraid Football Club, commonly known as The New Saints (Welsh: Clwb Pêl-droed y Seintiau Newydd) or TNS FC, are a Welsh professional football club that play in the Cymru Premier, but are based completely within England, in Oswestry, Shropshire. They are the most successful club in the Welsh league structure, with 16 league titles to their name. Since the 2001–02 season, they have finished as champions or runners-up in every season, apart from 2008–09, where they finished third in the league. They became the first side playing in the Welsh league system to qualify for the group or league stage of any European competition after reaching the league phase of the UEFA Conference League for the first time in the 2024–25 season.[1]