The Ospreys, formerly the Neath-Swansea Ospreys is one of the four professional rugby union teams from Wales. They compete in the United Rugby Championship and the European Rugby Champions Cup. The team formed as a result of Neath RFC and Swansea RFC combining to create a new merged entity, as part of the new regional structure of Welsh rugby, that began in 2003. They are also affiliated with a number of local semi-professional and amateur clubs, including Welsh Premier Division sides Aberavon RFC, Bridgend Ravens, and original founding clubs Neath and Swansea. The regional area represented by the team has widely become known for rugby purposes as 'Ospreylia'.
Cardiff Rugby are one of the four professional Welsh regional rugby union teams. Based in Cardiff, the capital of Wales, the team play at Cardiff Arms Park and are owned by Cardiff Rugby Ltd, who also own and run Cardiff Rugby Football Club. From 2003 to 2021 the club were known as the Cardiff Blues before changing their name to Cardiff Rugby prior to the start of the 2021-22 season.
William Michael Phillips is a rugby union player who plays at scrum-half. On 16 March 2013, Phillips surpassed the record of 76 caps set by Dwayne Peel as the most capped scrum-half for Wales.
James William Hook is a retired Welsh rugby union player. Hook has won 81 caps for Wales and is Wales' fourth highest all-time points scorer. Most often playing as a fly-half, Hook is known as a utility player, and has also played as a centre, wing and fullback.
Huw Bennett is a former Wales international rugby union hooker, who played most of his rugby career for the Ospreys.
Alun Wyn Jones is a Welsh professional rugby union player who plays as a lock for the Ospreys and the Wales national team. He is the world's most-capped rugby union player, with 161 international appearances – 149 for Wales and 12 for the British & Irish Lions. Jones also holds the records for the most Wales caps and the most Wales caps as captain.
Richard Hibbard is a Wales international rugby player currently playing for the Dragons.
Rhys Webb is a Welsh rugby union player who plays as a scrum-half for Ospreys. Born in Bridgend, he is a product of the Ospreys academy and played club rugby for Bridgend RFC and Aberavon RFC before breaking into the regional side in 2008. He played for the Ospreys for 10 years before moving to French club Toulon in 2018, but terminated his contract with them in 2020 and agreed a return to the Ospreys; however, he was unable to join the Ospreys immediately and signed for Bath for the remainder of the 2019–20 season before returning to the Ospreys.
Ysgol Gyfun Gymraeg Bro Myrddin is a Welsh-medium school in Carmarthenshire, Wales. It is situated near the village of Croesyceiliog, about 1¼ miles (2 km) south of Carmarthen. Myrddin, the Welsh name of the legendary figure Merlin, is traditionally associated with the town of Carmarthen, and Bro Myrddin means "Myrddin's country ".
Daniel Biggar is a Welsh rugby union player currently playing for Premiership side Northampton Saints. A Wales international, Biggar has also twice been selected to tour with the British and Irish Lions. Biggar plays fly-half.
Tom Prydie is a Welsh rugby union player. A fullback who can also play on the wing, Prydie is the youngest player ever to represent the Wales national team and the youngest player in the history of Europe's top rugby union club competition, the Heineken Cup.
Hallam Benjamen Amos is a Welsh rugby union player who plays for Cardiff Rugby. He mostly plays as a wing, but he is also capable of playing at fullback and as a centre. Born in Stockport, England, he came through the Newport Gwent Dragons academy and made his professional debut for the region in October 2011 at the age of 17 years and 28 days, briefly making him the youngest player to appear for one of the four Welsh regional sides. After eight years with the Dragons, during which time he made 115 appearances, he moved to the Cardiff Blues in 2019.
Rhys Marshall is a New Zealand rugby union player. He plays as a hooker for Waikato in the National Provincial Championship and Highlanders in Super Rugby Pacific.
Scott Baldwin is a Welsh international rugby union player. He played as a hooker for the Ospreys and joined Harlequins prior to the 2019/2020 season. In May 2013, Baldwin was selected in the Wales national rugby union team 32-man training squad for the summer 2013 tour to Japan. He made his international debut in the 2nd test versus Japan on 15 June 2013, as a second-half replacement. In the 2015 Six Nations Championship, Baldwin cemented his place as Wales's first choice hooker and made many pundits' team of the tournament.
Gerwyn Price is a Welsh professional darts player and former professional rugby union and rugby league player. Nicknamed "The Iceman", he competes in events of the Professional Darts Corporation (PDC), where he is the current world champion, after winning the 2021 PDC World Darts Championship, to become the first ever Welshman to win the tournament. Price's victory saw him overtake Michael van Gerwen in the world rankings, becoming the new world number 1.
Tomas Francis is a Wales-international rugby union player who plays at tight head prop for Ospreys.
Scott Otten is a Welsh former rugby union player who played for Ospreys as a hooker. He is a Wales under-20 international.
Carys Phillips is a Welsh rugby union player who plays as a Hooker for the Bristol Ladies/Ospreys and the Wales women's national rugby union team. The daughter of back row forward Rowland Phillips, she studied at Llandovery College and took a course in Sports Coaching and Development at Cardiff Metropolitan University. Phillips also played for Skewen RFC. She won her first international cap against Ireland in the first round of the 2013 Women's Six Nations Championship. Phillips captained Wales in the second round of the 2016 Women's Six Nations Championship. She is an ambassador for the Red Kites Girls’ Rugby Cluster Centre, an organisation which lends its support to all-girls rugby.
Garyn Phillips is a Welsh rugby union player, currently playing for Pro14 side Ospreys. His preferred position is prop.
