Rhayader Town could face 2009 Welsh Premier champions Rhyl in next season’s Cymru Alliance.
The Weirglodd club will make a decision at Monday night’s Annual Meeting whether or not to accept promotion having finished runners-up to Penparcau in the Spar Mid Wales League.
And with player-manager Dylan McPhee and most of the playing squad keen to continue Rhayader’s progress up the Welsh pyramid system, it looks almost certain Rhayader will be playing at a higher level.
Rhyl are the biggest name casualty following the restructuring of Welsh football and will be relegated from the Welsh Premier along with GAP Connah’s Quay, Porthmadog, Welshpool Town, Elements Cefn Druids and Caersws.
Joining Rhayader in promotion are Welsh Alliance champions, Rhydymwyn and Rhos Aelwyd who were winners of the Wrexham Area League.
The Cymru Alliance will be high profile next season with the six former Welsh Premier teams participating and the travel is perhaps not quite what it was with Rhayader facing four Mid Wales derbies against Caersws, Welshpool Town, Guilsfield and Penrhyncoch.
Only the top seven teams survive from last season’s Alliance in Llangefni Town, Flint Town United, Llandudno, Buckley Town and Ruthin Town as well as Penrhyncoch and Guisfield.
Berriew are the one Mid Wales team to be relegated and return to the Spar Mid Wales League following just one term in the Alliance. Watson Associates Mid Wales League (South) Champions, Builth Wells and Llanidloes Town, winners of the Montgomery Amateur League first division, are likely to be promoted to the Spar Mid Wales League first division.
With the reserve teams of Aberystwyth Town, Caersws and Newtown already relegated and facing nowhere to play following a decision by the FAW, it means Llanfyllin Town will be the only side relegated with directly affiliated league’s reduced to a maximum of 16 teams.
Llanfyllin will play in the new Division two of the Spar League which will include several sides from last season’s Watson Associates Mid Wales League (South).
Teams comprising the Spar Mid Wales League first division are likely to be Berriew, Bow Street, Builth Wells, Carno, Dolgellau, Dyffryn Banw, Hay St Marys, Llanidloes Town, Llanrhaeadr, Llansantffraid Village, Newbridge, Penparcau, Presteigne, Tywyn/Bryncrus, UWA and Waterloo Rovers.
This will have to be rubber stamped at the League’s Annual Meeting on June 24 when the make up of the new second division will also become clear.