That inaugural championship brought European reward in the form of a UEFA Champions League tie against Cork City from the Republic of Ireland.

In the 2003–04 UEFA Cup they lost 6–0 on aggregate to Maccabi Haifa of Israel, playing the away leg in İzmir, Turkey.

But his reign was short, and during the 2004–05 season after the resignation of long term chairman John Colley, Brian also decided to step down as manager due to financial reasons.

At the end of the 2005–06 season, Town were close to dropping out of the Welsh top flight for the first time since the League's formation.

For 2016–17, Ryder brought in Gareth Hinwood as his assistant manager and a host of new players from Cwmbran Celtic FC, finishing the season in eight position, despite being the league's leading goal scorers; it was the other end that let the team down.

In 2017–18 Ryder and Hinwood had added quality to the squad, with a real hope of achieving promotion to the Welsh Football League.

The squad was enhanced with experience and talented youth players and although the Crows cemented 4th place again in the league, the club won the Gwent Senior Cup for the fourth time, beating a very strong Ynysddu Welfare side in the final 1-0 and claiming their first trophy in over 13 years.

The 2019–2020 season was cut short due to the coronavirus pandemic bringing a premature end to Nicky Church's reign as manager.

DARK DAYS- lack of players and Lee stepping down week before the season started looked like the end of the crows, crises meeting led to the Appointment of former Newport County Defender Darren Jones.

Darren appointed Jon Mardon as his assistant and started to build a team, 2021/2022 was a long hard season surviving reliagation by just 3pts.

2022/23 New club President Dan O'Connell brought a new lease of life, so Darren bought in quality players and started winning games more regularly new hope of getting out of Gwent county seen them finishing in 4th position.

2023/24 Darren Jones stepped down with a host of people interested in taking the hot seat it was former Newport County coach Danny Elliott who got the job.

With the league about to start Danny left for Abergavenny, this was met with a swift appointment of Steve Davies another Newport County coach taking the hot seat, with a mixture of youth and experience players things are looking exciting.

Cwmbran Stadium holds 10,500 people and the main outdoor arena consists of an international standard athletics track and field surrounding an artificial 3G football pitch.