Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Newport County are a football club based in Newport, South Wales who currently play in the English Conference South. They were founded in 1912 and joined the Football League''s new Third Division in 1920. Newport County were Welsh Cup winners in 1980 and subsequently reached the quarter-finals of the European Cup Winners'' Cup. The club was relegated from the Football League in 1988 and went out of business in February 1989 but re-formed shortly afterwards and entered the English league pyramid system at a much lower level.