Caernarfon Town are staying up – but Flint still have work to do

CYMRU PREMIER PLAY-OFF CONFERENCE – APRIL 19, 2023

Flint Town United 2 (Beaumont 18, Diau 35)
Caernarfon Town 3 (Donohue pen 33, Edwards 50, Faux 87)

Josef Faux scored a cracking 87th minute winner to secure Caernarfon Town Cymru Premier football for a sixth successive season.

But for losers Flint there is still work to do. The Silkmen will travel to Pontypridd United this Saturday needing to match or better Aberystwyth Town’s result to stay up.

Wednesday night’s game was played behind closed doors at the Essity Stadium. The teams met 11 days earlier at the same venue but the match was abandoned with Flint two-up after 16 minutes due to crowd trouble.

The second game was 18 minutes old when Flint’s Bobby Beaumont lashed home a thunderous volley from inside the semi-circle on the edge of the penalty area after Anthony Stephens’ long throw was part-cleared.

The Cofis levelled on 33 minutes when Dion Donohue’s left-footed penalty just beat the despairing dive of home keeper Harry Allen.

Two minutes later it was 2-1 to the hosts when a magnificent cross via the left byline from substitute Tyler Garratt was expertly nodded in by the giant Brandon Diau at the back post.

Five minutes into the second half it was two-apiece when a Rob Hughes corner was returned to him before he laid the ball into the path of Noah Edwards, who drilled in a left-foot beauty.

Caernarfon were now on top and only the heroics of Allen twice denied Ben Wynne from close range.

Harry Owen hit the bar at the other end before the winner arrived three minutes from time.

The ball came to Faux on the edge of the area and he fired a perfectly-placed effort beyond the keeper to win the match.

It was mission accomplished for Canaries manager Richard Owain Davies, who took over the role in March.

CAERNARFON TOWN – WELSH PREMIER RECORD

SEASONS COMPETED: 18
HIGHEST FINISH: 4th (1996-97; 2018-19; 2021-22)

KEY:

SEASON-NAME OF LEAGUE-PLAYED-WINS-DRAWN-LOST-GOALS FOR-GOALS AGAINST-POINTS-FINAL POSITION/NO OF TEAMS
P W D L GF GA PTS POS/NO OF TEAMS
1995-96 WELSH PR 40 16 13 11 77 59 61 6/21
1996-97 WELSH PR 40 23 9 8 81 58 78 4/21
1997-98 WELSH PR 38 12 7 19 57 66 43 13/20
1998-99 WELSH PR 32 13 11 8 45 46 50 5/17
1999-00 WELSH PR 34 1 8 25 21 81 11 18/18
2001-02 WELSH PR 34 12 8 14 64 64 44 11/18
2002-03 WELSH PR 34 8 10 16 43 53 34 14/18
2003-04 WELSH PR 32 11 9 12 65 65 42 9/17
2004-05 WELSH PR 34 7 7 20 29 72 28 15/18
2005-06 WELSH PR 34 9 10 15 47 55 37 13/18
2006-07 WELSH PR 32 6 8 18 41 73 26 15/17
2007-08 WELSH PR 34 10 6 18 42 74 36 14/18
2008-09 WELSH PR 34 5 8 21 32 73 20 * 18/18
2018-19 WELSH PR 32 13 7 12 45 47 46 4/12
2019-20 CYMRU-PR 26 11 5 10 36 38 38 5/12
2020-21 CYMRU-PR 32 10 7 15 43 67 37 6/12
2021-22 CYMRU-PR 32 13 4 15 46 53 43 4/12
2022-23 CYMRU-PR 31 12 3 16 49 51 39 8/12 (one game to play)

PLAYED 605
WON 192
DRAWN 140
LOST 273
GOALS SCORED 863
GOALS CONCEDED 1095