Bryncoch RFC

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Bryncoch RFC
Full nameBryncoch Rugby Football Club
Foundedc 1898 [1]
Location Bryncoch
Ground(s)Memorial Recreation Ground
ChairmanAndrew Mellin
PresidentBrian Sheppard
Coach(es)Richard Powell
Leigh Davies
League(s) WRU Division Three South West
2011/127th [2]
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Official website
www.bryncochrfc.com

Bryncoch Rugby Football Club are a Welsh rugby union club based in the town of Bryncoch in Neath, Wales. The club is a member of the Welsh Rugby Union and is also a feeder club for the Ospreys. [3] The club fields First, Second and Youth teams.

Club honours

Notes

  1. Photo of Bryncoch team 1898 Archived July 8, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
  2. "WRU official website". Archived from the original on 8 April 2012. Retrieved 27 May 2012.
  3. BBC News (8 July 2004). "Wales' regional rugby map". BBC . Retrieved 22 June 2008.
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