Cardiff City U18s v Swansea City U18s - PDL February 2026

Cardiff City 3 Swansea City 1 – Under 18 Professional Development League

A visit to Leckwith in atrocious weather is never a pleasant prospect.  Actually, given that Leckwith resembles a grim piece of austere Soviet Bloc architecture and has no open refreshment facilities, you could quite easily remove 3 words from that opening sentence without changing the sentiment.  I came here last January to watch our U18s …

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Swansea City 12 Doncaster Rovers 0 – Under 18 Professional Development League Cup Quarter Final

Our U18s marched on into the PDL Cup Semi-Finals with a comfortable win over a desperately poor Doncaster Rovers side here at Landore. Wingers Kai Rhodes and Callum Jones had free rein today, both creating and scoring to put early distance between the two teams.  Rovers had no way of dealing with either player. We …

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Swansea City v Millwall - Under 18 Professional Development League - JOMA High Performance Centre, Landore, Swansea, Wales, UK.

Swansea City 1 Millwall 1 – Under 18 Professional Development League

A confusing end to an otherwise strong performance by a very young U18s squad today at Landore, in conditions that were bitterly cold, blustery and rainy for much of the afternoon. After the FA Youth Cup heroics against Leeds earlier in the week, it was a much-changed selection, which operated as 3-5-2: Jakub Nowak; Kaven …

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Swansea City 2 Wolverhampton Wanderers 3 – Under 21 Premier League Cup

Today’s match kick-off was held up for 30 minutes whilst the mandatory ambulance was organised.   The crowd was left to ponder as to the reason for the delay, as not only does the ground tannoy still fail to function, but the match announcer is also unwell.  Get well soon, Eirian.  With recent games lacking even …

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Swansea City 3 Cardiff City 0 – Under 18 Professional Development League

Coming off the back of last weekend’s 4-1 age grade cup win against the same opponents at Leckwith, today’s victory over our South Wales rivals was deserved and hard earned. On a sunny day wintry at Landore, the line-up was a familiar 4-3-3.  Jon Beale, who was previously at the academy before moving off to …

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Swansea City 2 Millwall 1 – Under 21 Premier League Cup

With a number of players back from recent international duties, we fielded an attacking line-up for this Development League Cup tie with Millwall.  Carter Heywood, fresh from captaining Wales U17s, came into the back four and there was no Arthur Parker this evening, the feeling being that he might be getting called into the first …

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Swansea City 3 Charlton Athletic 0 – Under 21 Professional Development League

This was a hard-earned victory at Landore against a Charlton Athletic side that was top of the Division 2 South table and unbeaten since August.  It was also the U21s first home game since September.    We fielded a strong-looking side, set up as 4-2-3-1: Evan Anderson; Sam Parker (s – Ramon Rees-Siso 59m), Arthur …

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Swansea City v Bristol City - Under 18 Professional Development League - JOMA High Performance Centre, Landore, Swansea, Wales, UK.

Swansea City 9 Bristol City 0 – Under 18 Professional Development League

In the first home game in over a month, our U18s achieved a special victory today against near neighbours Bristol City.  The last match here was a comprehensive 4-7 defeat to Bournemouth, so today’s outcome will taste especially sweet. We lined up initially 4-3-3 but varied the formation during the game, particularly when the visitors …

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