Brecon RFC

Brecon Rugby Football Club (Welsh: Clwb Rygbi Aberhonddu) is a rugby union club from the town of Brecon, Mid Wales. The club is a member of the Welsh Rugby Union and is a feeder club for the Cardiff Blues.[3]

Brecon RFC
Full nameBrecon Rugby Football Club
Founded1874[1]
LocationBrecon, Wales
Ground(s)Parc de Pugh
PresidentRon Rowsell
Coach(es)Scott Edwards
Gareth Williams
League(s)WRU Division One East
2018-191st[2]
Team kit
Official website
www.breconrfc.co.uk

The club was one of the eleven founding members of the Welsh Rugby Union in 1881.[4] Brecon, along with Pontypool, Llandovery College, Lampeter College, Llandeilo and Merthyr inaugurated the South Wales Cup competition in the 1877-78 season.[5]

The first recorded match with a Brecon rugby team first appeared on 9 November 1867 in "The Brecon County Times" where a Town team from Brecon lost 2-0 to Christ's College, Brecon on 6 November 1867.[6]

An ad appeared on 24 October 1868, in The Brecon County Times, stating the formation of a new club in the town, playing their inaugural match on 21/10/1868 on the cricket field, with the captain's side beating the secretaries side. Their kit for the match was "white Jerseys bound with green, and a fleur-de-lis on the left side". There was no name of the new club mentioned.[7] On 9 January 1869, another team was formed in Brecon, called "The United Rangers".[8]

Club honours
  • 2018-19 WRU Plate - Winners

Past players of note

References
  1. Fields of Praise, The Official History of the Welsh Rugby Union 1881-1981, David Smith, Gareth Williams (1980) pg 11 ISBN 0-7083-0766-3
  2. "WRU official website". Archived from the original on 12 October 2014. Retrieved 29 May 2012.
  3. BBC News (8 July 2004). "Wales' regional rugby map". BBC. Retrieved 20 July 2008.
  4. Fields of Praise, The Official History of the Welsh Rugby Union 1881-1981, David Smith, Gareth Williams (1980) pg 41 ISBN 0-7083-0766-3
  5. Fields of Praise, The Official History of the Welsh Rugby Union 1881-1981, David Smith, Gareth Williams (1980) p.43 ISBN 0-7083-0766-3
  6. https://newspapers.library.wales/view/3870565/3870569/43/football
  7. https://newspapers.library.wales/view/3871015/3871019/77/football
  8. https://newspapers.library.wales/view/3880681/3880685/66/football


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