Airbus UK Broughton Football Club is a semi-professional football club based in Broughton, Flintshire, Wales. They had their origins as the works team of the Airbus UK factory in Broughton where the wings of Airbus aircraft are produced, and are consequently nicknamed The Wingmakers or The Planemakers. They play in the .
The club was promoted to the Cymru Premier for the first time in 2004, and play at The Hollingsworth Group Stadium (previously known as The Airfield), Broughton (capacity 1,600, of which 500 are seated); however as their pitch could not be brought up to Cymru Premier standards in time following their promotion, for their first two games they shared Conwy United's ground. The Airfield features three unusual retracting floodlights as it is adjacent to an operational runway. In 2014, the grass surface was replaced with a 3G synthetic pitch. At the end of the 2016–17 season the club were relegated to the Cymru Alliance having finished bottom of the league.
In the 2022–23 season, the club finished with -4 points after being deducted 6 points and losing all but two matches. As a result, they were relegated back to the Cymru North after having been promoted in the 2021–22 season.
History
Formed in 1946, the club has known several different names as the ownership of the factory has changed over the years. Originally called Vickers-Armstrong, it has variously been named de Havillands, Hawker Siddeley, British Aerospace, and BAE Systems.
The club's early years were spent in the Chester & District League and the Wrexham area leagues. The club won the Welsh National League (Wrexham Area) Division Two title during the 1991–92 season, when they won 28 of their 34 matches and scored 130 goals to finish 19 points ahead of their nearest rival.
During their time in the Cymru Premier, Airbus UK Broughton went from relegation strugglers to a club that challenged regularly for honours. They qualified for Europe for the first time in 2013 as Cymru Premier runners-up, repeating the feat the following season and appearing in the Europa League for a third consecutive time as third-place finishers in 2015.
In May 2016 the club reached the Welsh Cup final for the first time, losing 2–0 to The New Saints at Wrexham's Racecourse Ground. They just failed to qualify for Europe again, losing 1–0 in the Play-off final to neighbours Gap Connah's Quay.
A difficult summer saw the majority of players recruited by other Welsh Premier clubs and director of football Andy Preece leaving the club by mutual consent three days before the start of the next campaign, to be replaced by former player Andrew Thomas.
The 2016–17 season produced only five wins and saw first round exits from both the League Cup and Welsh Cup, ending with the Wingmakers finishing in bottom place and being relegated back to the Cymru Alliance ending 13 seasons in the Welsh top flight. In the 2018-19 season, Airbus won the Cymru Alliance title for a second time after a 4-0 victory over Holywell Town and won promotion back to the Cymru Premier as well as completing a double by defeating Holyhead Hotspur 5-1 in the League Cup final.
Honours
- Welsh National League (Wrexham Area) Division Two:
:Winners: 1991–92
- Welsh National League (Wrexham Area) Division One:
:Runners-up: 1995–96
- Cymru Alliance League Cup:
:Winners: 2018-19
- Cymru North:
:Winners: 2021–22
:Runners-up: 2024–25, 2025–26
- Cymru Premier:
:Runners-up: 2012–13, 2013–14
- Welsh Cup:
:Finalists: 2015–16
- Welsh Blood Service League Cup - Northern
- Winners: 2024-25
- NEWFA Challenge Cup
- Winners: 2024-25, 2025–26
European record
{| class="wikitable"
! Season
! Competition
! Round
! Club
! Home
! Away
! Aggregate
|-
| 2013–14
| UEFA Europa League
| First qualifying round
| Ventspils
| style="text-align:center;"| 1–1
| style="text-align:center;"| 0–0
| style="text-align:center;"| 1–1 (a)