Brecon RFC

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Brecon RFC
Full nameBrecon Rugby Football Club
Founded1874 [1]
Location Brecon, Wales
Ground(s)Parc de Pugh
PresidentAndy Lewis
Coach(es)Dale McIntosh
League(s) WRU Championship West
2022-231st [2]
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Official website
www.breconrfc.co.uk

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 Cardiff Rugby. [3]

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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

Past players of note

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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. ↑ "[No title]|1867-11-09|The Brecon County Times Neath Gazette and General Advertiser for the Counties of Brecon Carmarthen Radnor Monmouth Glamorgan Cardigan Montgomery Hereford - Welsh Newspapers".
  7. ↑ "[No title]|1868-10-24|The Brecon County Times Neath Gazette and General Advertiser for the Counties of Brecon Carmarthen Radnor Monmouth Glamorgan Cardigan Montgomery Hereford - Welsh Newspapers".
  8. ↑ "[No title]|1869-01-09|The Brecon County Times Neath Gazette and General Advertiser for the Counties of Brecon Carmarthen Radnor Monmouth Glamorgan Cardigan Montgomery Hereford - Welsh Newspapers".


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