Brynmawr RFC

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Brynmawr RFC
Full nameBrynmawr Rugby Football Club
Nickname(s)The Pirates
Location Brynmawr, Wales
Ground(s)The rec (Capacity: Leigh 'Tinker' Taylor)
PresidentRob Kershaw
Coach(es)Gavin Knapp, Sean Emery
League(s) WRU Division One East
2015/163rd [1]
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Official website
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Brynmawr Rugby Football Club are a Welsh rugby union club based in Brynmawr in South Wales. The club presently plays in the Welsh Rugby Union Division One East league and is a feeder club for the Newport Gwent Dragons. [2]

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In 2002 Brynmawr RFC, along with Abertillery RFC, withdrew from the Principality Cup, after the Welsh Rugby Union made an error during the live draw for the fifth round. [3] In 2013 Brynmawr were able to field an Under 13s team. That team stayed together through the remaining years of Junior Rugby and on 30 April 2017 they won the famous Provins International Tournament in France - the first Welsh Team to lift the trophy. They went through the tournament without conceding a point.

Club honours

Notable players

See also Category:Brynmawr RFC players

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  1. "WRU Official Website". Archived from the original on 5 March 2014. Retrieved 27 May 2012.
  2. BBC News (8 July 2004). "Wales' regional rugby map". BBC . Retrieved 20 May 2008.
  3. Abertillery withdraw from Cup BBC website sourced 15 October 2007