| Swansea City | ||||||
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| Stadium: Liberty Stadium | ||||||
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Competitive match results1 | |||||
| Venue | W | D | L | F | A | |
| @Bristol Rovers: | 21 | 12 | 7 | 78 | 40 | |
| @Swansea City: | 11 | 11 | 18 | 44 | 72 | |
| Neutral venues: | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Total: | 32 | 23 | 25 | 122 | 112 | |
| 1Match results from the Football League, FA Cup, League Cup, Football League Trophy and Full Members Cup. Last updated 03:18, 25 March 2008 (CDT). | ||||||
Swansea City (formerly known as Swansea Town) are a Welsh team playing in the English league structure. Bristol Rovers and Swansea have met 80 times, with the better record belonging to Rovers: 32 wins to Swansea's 25. The first Football League meeting between the teams was on Christmas day, 1920 at Eastville when both teams were in the newly-created Football League Division Three, and ended in a 2-1 victory for Swansea Town, as they were then called. The second meeting came just two days later on 27 December, when the result was a 2-2 draw.
Records[]
- Last meeting: 24 March 2008 - Swansea City 2-2 Bristol Rovers
- Biggest win: 2 October 1954 - Bristol Rovers 7-0 Swansea Town
- Biggest loss: 15 April 1922 - Swansea Town 8-1 Bristol Rovers
- Highest aggregate score: 25 December 1957 - Swansea Town 6-4 Bristol Rovers
Players who represented both clubs[]
Some of the players who have been on the books of both Bristol Rovers and Swansea City are listed below.
- Julian Alsop
- Ijah Anderson joined Swansea from Rovers in 2004
- Kevin Austin joined Swansea from Rovers in 2004
- Ronnie Briggs
- Brian Cash
- Darryl Duffy
- Christian Edwards
- Andy Gurney
- Carl Heggs
- Lee Jones
- Scott Sinclair
- Lee Thorpe