Neath F.C. (formerly BP Llandarcy F.C.)
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Neath F.C. were a football club based in village of Llandarcy
near Neath
. The club was founded in 1922 as National Oil Refineries F.C. as a works team
for the local new oil refinery
. In 1954, National Oil Refineries changed their name to BP Llandarcy F.C. following the British Petroleum Company
's acquisition of the refinary.
Llandarcy
Llandarcy is a village near Neath in Neath Port Talbot county borough, southwest Wales, and formerly the site of the UK's first oil refinery. The village, which lies near the Junction 43 of the M4 Motorway, was originally designed as a garden village to house the workers for the refinery, built by...
near Neath
Neath
Neath is a town and community situated in the principal area of Neath Port Talbot, Wales, UK with a population of approximately 45,898 in 2001...
. The club was founded in 1922 as National Oil Refineries F.C. as a works team
Works team
A works team is a sports team that is financed and run by a manufacturer or other business. Sometimes, works teams contain or are entirely made up of employees of the supporting company.-Africa:...
for the local new oil refinery
Oil refinery
An oil refinery or petroleum refinery is an industrial process plant where crude oil is processed and refined into more useful petroleum products, such as gasoline, diesel fuel, asphalt base, heating oil, kerosene, and liquefied petroleum gas...
. In 1954, National Oil Refineries changed their name to BP Llandarcy F.C. following the British Petroleum Company
BP
BP p.l.c. is a global oil and gas company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It is the third-largest energy company and fourth-largest company in the world measured by revenues and one of the six oil and gas "supermajors"...
's acquisition of the refinary.