Merthyr Town Football Club is a Welsh semi-professional football club based in Merthyr Tydfil, Wales.  The club was founded in 1909 and were accepted into Section A of the Southern League Second Division. In 1912 they clinched the Second Division championship and won the South Wales Cup. After the First World War the club was relaunched and was accepted into the newly created Third Division. The miners' strike of April 1921 hit attendances hard: as unemployment rose gate receipts fell while costs rose and the club's financial situation became perilous. In 1925 Merthyr finished bottom of the League against a background of mass unemployment in the town and a board that had to dip into their own pockets to pay the summer wages bill for retained players.  In 1930 they finished a distant last and this time they were not re-elected at the League AGM in June.  The club folded in 1934 and were replaced by new formed Merthyr Tydfil F.C. in 1945. In 2010, the club reformed again after Merthyr Tydfil was liquidated.