Organised Summer football in the Vale of Clwyd began in 1927, and apart for a break during the 2nd World War, has continued up to the present day. Although never officially sanctioned by the Football Association of Wales, the Summer League has provided countless thousands of young men with the opportunity of playing soccer for their local village team.
The idea for our League was initiated within the farming community in the Vale of Clwyd and following a notice in the Denbighshire Free Press, representatives from Llandyrnog, Llanrhaeadr, Trefnant and Tremeirchion met at the Cocoa Rooms in Llandyrnog and formed the League. The meeting was anxious to provide organised sport for Farm workers who did not have any other opportunity of playing football. Bodfari were invited to join the League in the first season and Rhewl joined the League twelve months later.
The title of the league was called Llandyrnog & District Village Clubs Friendly Football League. The name of Llandyrnog was used because the meetings were held in the village and the main officials also came from there as well.
When the league was formed in 1927 generally the clubs were granted a catchment area, from which their players could be selected, which equated to a parish. e.g. when Rhewl joined the League in 1928 their catchment area was Llanynys Parish(which has not changed since then). Demographic changes have meant that some of the catchment areas were not sustainable in providing enough players. The catchment areas of some of the clubs which had resign from the league due to a lack of players have been added to some existing clubs to enable them to continue in existence - details of these are provided in the individual club information.