Pontllanfraith RFC

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Pontllanfraith RFC
Full namePontllanfraith Rugby Football Club
Location Pontllanfraith, Wales
Ground(s)Welfare Ground(Islwyn park)
Coach(es)Neil Clarke
Craig Maggs
Captain(s)Nathan (Larry) meyrick (season 2022-2023)
League(s) WRU Division Three East D
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Official website
www.pitchero.com/clubs/pontllanfraith/

Pontllanfraith Rugby Football Club is a Welsh rugby union team based in Pontllanfraith. The club successfully gained membership to the Welsh Rugby Union in 1998. Today, Pontllanfraith RFC is a member of the Welsh Rugby Union and is a feeder club for the Newport Gwent Dragons. [2]

Club honours

2005/06 WRU Division Four East - Champions

Notes

  1. WRU Official website Archived 2010-11-30 at the Wayback Machine
  2. BBC News (8 July 2004). "Wales' regional rugby map". BBC . Retrieved 29 June 2008.


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