CYMRU NORTH: Rhyl 1879 suffer record loss in a competitive game as Airbus run riot

JD CYMRU NORTH – OCTOBER 24, 2025

Airbus UK Broughton 6 (Cooke 18, 49, Davies 42, 53, Stevenson 57, Warren 90+2)
CPD Y Rhyl 1879 0

Rhyl 1879 suffered their heaviest defeat in a competitive game since forming five years ago as unbeaten leaders Airbus ran riot at the Hollingsworth Group Stadium on Friday night.

The Lilywhites’ previous biggest loss was a 6-1 caning at Flint Mountain in March 2024, but in their 164th fixture in total across league and cups they could not even manage a scant consolation goal against the Wingmakers.

Had the visitors not had such a good quality keeper as Alex Swindell between the sticks, the severity of their beating could have been much worse.

Mark Allen’s table-toppers made the breakthrough in the 18th minute when Joshua Stevenson delivered a great ball between defenders and Kaiden Cooke buried into the bottom corner.

Rhyl looked like equalising when Jack Parry’s strike was headed for the top corner, but Keighan Jones managed to tip over the bar.

At the other end, Swindell made a superb double save to thwart Jordan Evans with 38 on the clock.

Three minutes before the break, the Wingmakers made it 2-0 when Stevenson lofted another great ball over the defence and James Davies pounced to fire home.

Cooke, the 2024-25 Cymru North Young Player of the Season, brought the house down in the 49th minute with an astonishing strike which thundered in off the crossbar for number three.

Davies soon bagged his second as well, latching onto a Mason Blackwell-Jones pass and finding the net in clinical fashion.

Stevenson notched the fifth home goal on 57 minutes with a powerful header from a Jordan Evans corner.

Swindell made two more great stops, one foiling Danny Warren from close range, but the Airbus ace would not be denied his goal.

In the second minute of added time, sub Warren pocketed his 32nd goal in 48 appearances for the Broughton men when he finished off Tyler McManus’ pinpoint cross.