 County's 77 years at the stadium had brought many highs and lows, the most notable being the Welsh Cup and Fourth Division promotion triumph in 1980 and the European Cup Winners' Cup quarter-final appearance in 1981, but the final few years brought the trauma of two successive relegations which saw the club lose its Football League status after 68 years, and finally go out of business on 27 February 1989.County were members of the Football Conference that season but their bankruptcy saw them expelled from that league for being unable to fulfill their fixtures.The club was again reformed within four months and began the 1989–90 season as a Hellenic League side.