A brief history of the club and the Village which was born as a result of the sinking of a coal mine in 1873, known as the “Harris Navigation Colliery”.
The Township which grew around the mine was named after the owner Frederick Harris.
Football was brought to the area by the men who arrived to work in the mine. Until this time soccer was a game played in the North and over the border in England.
Treharris Football Club was formed in 1889, some four years prior to the Treharris Workman’s Hall opening (later to be the Palace Cinema and seven years before St. Matthias Church.
During the latter 19th and early 20th century, Treharris
became the centre of the surrounding Villages , which today constitutes an area of over 15,000 people.
However, the closure of the deep navigation Colliery, once the deepest pit in the country as well as the nearby Taff Merthyr and Trelewis Drift has had a detrimental effect on what were once thriving towns.
The football Club is the oldest in South Wales and in
1902-1903 were the founder members of the Welsh Football League.
The club is proud of it’s continued membership of the league and the part it’s members have played in making it the
finest League in the Principality.
During it’s “heyday” the club attracted players from al over Wales and hosted many Amateur Internationals in it’s teams.