Quirky Facts about the Swans - Swansea Bay, Mumbles and Gower

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Cyril the Swan

Swansea City is the 45th club to play in the Barclays Premier League (but FIRST WELSH CLUB EVER!)
The most capped player to have played for the club is Ivor Allchurch - with 68 appearances for Wales
Everton are the only club in the top flight that Swansea have never beaten
Swansea City have played Man Utd 16 times, winning 6, drawing 4, and losing 6
35 – the number of managers Swansea have had. The first being Walter Whittaker. (Not including caretakers)
35 – Record number of goals in a season scored by Cyril Pearce 1931/32
5 – The record number of goals scored in a match by one player. Jack Fowler 5 v Charlton (6-1), Div 3, 27/9/24
12-0 – Swans record win against Sliema Wanderers in the European Cup Winners Cup in 1982
43 – The age of Tommy Hutchinson, the oldest player to play for Swans in 1991
15 – The age of Nigel Dalling, the youngest player to play for Swans
Swansea have won the Welsh Cup 10 times - in 1913, 1932, 1950, 1961, 1966, 1981, 1982, 1983 and 1989, 1990
Wilfred Milne holds the record for the most League appearances for the club - with 585 appearances between 1919 and 1937
Roger Freestone holds the club record for the most appearances in all competitions - playing 699 games between 1989 - 2004
Swansea City's former home The Vetch Field was named due to the vetch (a type of legume - not a cabbage as popularly misbelieved in most of South Wales) that was grown on its surface at the time, the site was owned by Swansea Gaslight Company in 1912, when a professional football team was formed in the town .
Highest attendance (Vetch) - 32,786 v Arsenal 17 Feb 1968
Highest attendance (Liberty) - 19,816 v Nottm Forest 16 May 2011
Most points in a season - 92 (2007/08)
Most clean sheets - 23 (2009/10)
4 swans players have made the Football League 100 Legends - Trevor Ford, Ivor Allchurch, Cliff Jones and Tommy Smith
4 swans players have played at world cup finals - Ivor Allchurch, Len Allchurch, Mel Charles and Cliff Jones (all 1958)
41 swans players have made over 200 appearances. Just 2 current players - Leon Britton and Alan Tate
Undefeated matches - 19 (1970/71)
Undefeated home matches - 28 (1925/27)

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