Only three teams have achieved the elusive treble in Welsh football; The New Saints twice, in 2014-15 and 2015-16; Barry Town in 1996-97; and Rhyl in 2003-04.

But this year there could be a fourth name added to the list. Connah’s Quay Nomads captured the League Cup at the start of the month and currently sit four points clear at the top of the Cymru Premier with seven games remaining.

Next weekend there is a break in league action for the quarter-finals of the Welsh Cup, which Connah’s Quay are also still involved in.

The Nomads are drawn against Cardiff Metropolitan University, who won the League Cup last season and were runners-up the year before, in a tie that takes place on Saturday.

The other quarter-finals feature The New Saints against Newtown, Caernarfon Town against Cefn Druids and an all Cymru North battle between Flint Town United and Prestatyn Town.

In the second half of the season the Nomads have won all three of their matches in the Cymru Premier Championship Conference to move above The New Saints. If they can gain another 18 points from their remaining fixtures the title will definitely be theirs.

But in both the Cymru Premier, which the Nomads have never won, and the Welsh Cup, which they lifted for the first and only time in 2017-18, there is still a huge way to go before their name can be added to the list of treble winners although it would be dangerous to rule the prospect out.

This season the Nomads achieved one of the best results attained in European football by a Cymru Premier side, knocking out Scottish Premiership side Kilmarnock in the first qualifying round of the Europa League.

Killie, currently in seventh place in the Scottish Premiership, beat second-placed Rangers 2-1 earlier this month and reached the quarter-finals of the Scottish League Cup, where they lost 5-4 to Hibernian on penalties with the game tied at 0-0 after extra-time.

Last season the Nomads also reached the final of the Scottish Challenge Cup, beating Falkirk, Coleraine, Queen’s Park and Edinburgh City before losing 3-1 to another Scottish Premiership side, Ross County, in the final. They also finished runners-up to TNS in both the Cymru Premier and the Welsh Cup.

The Nomads have three critical league matches to negotiate against Cymru Premier title rivals Bala Town on 6 March and 17 April, and The New Saints on 10 April. They can afford to lose one of those games as long as they don’t slip up in their other four matches against Newtown twice, Barry and Caernarfon.

Cardiff Met will be no pushovers in the Welsh Cup next Saturday but the Nomads do have home advantage in that tie… safely get through that encounter and they’re into the last four.

The pressure is really on Connah’s Quay this term, the question now is are they finally ready to write their names in Cymru Premier history?

Welsh Cup Quarter-finals
28 February: Caernarfon Town v Cefn Druids, Flint Town United v Prestatyn Town
29 February: Connah’s Quay Nomads v Cardiff Metropolitan University, The New Saints v Newtown