West Wales Premier League

Saturday 13th September 2025

Kick Off 11.00 Actual 11.01

Llangennech 2 Dafen Welfare 2, attendance 224 (official)

8’ 1-0

17’ 1-1

38’ 2-1

64’ 2-2

@ Llangennech Recreation Ground

Station Road

Llangennech

SA14 8UY

£5 Admission, including Programme, 20 pages.

Having left home ridiculously early, I arrived in Llangennech, to the northeast of Llanelli, over an hour and a half before kick off. Ordinarily, the car park here would be enough to cope with the crowd, but as this was part of an official ground hop, it was a better bet to park in the road outside. The club were well organised and both teams were already here. The ground is basic for Tier 4, with a wooden fence enclosing the pitch and a pair of portable dugouts flanking a section of uncovered seating. The brick built changing room building, which also housed the tea bar and toilets, is in the near right hand corner as you enter the ground from the car park. Being an organised event, the crowd was well up on a normal day, although the official crowd of 224 can be best described as generous. It certainly felt like there were fewer present. It was also noticeable how many of the regular faces hadn’t bothered this year, too.

Considering it was 13th versus 16th (bottom) in the league table, it was a decent game, where both teams would have fancied their chances in taking the three points. Llangennech took an early lead, when a cross wasn’t cleared from the box, leading to an easy finish, but Dafen Welfare levelled within nine minutes. The hosts went back in front seven minutes before halftime, with a shot from the edge of the box that the ‘keeper got a hand to, but couldn’t keep out. Midway through the second half Dafen levelled the scores again, with a left foot finish into the bottom corner. The visitors might have won it, if a double sending off for Llangennech, following a bout of pushing and shoving, had come earlier than the first minute of stoppage time, but overall, a draw was probably about right.