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2006–07 WRU Challenge Cup
The 2006–07 WRU Challenge Cup, known for sponsorship reasons as the Konica Minolta Cup, was the 37th WRU Challenge Cup, the annual national rugby union cup competition of Wales. Llandovery RFC, Llandovery won the title for the very first time after beating Cardiff RFC, Cardiff Rugby 20 - 18 in the final. Round 1 Round 2 Round 3 Round 4 Round 5 Round 6 Quarter finals Semi finals Final {{DEFAULTSORT:2006-07 WRU Challenge Cup WRU Challenge Cup 2006–07 in Welsh rugby union, Challenge Cup 2006–07 rugby union tournaments for clubs, Wales Cup1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WRU Challenge Cup
The WRU Challenge Cup (currently known as the WRU Premiership Cup, formally called the Welsh Rugby Union Challenge Cup, is Wales' premier Single-elimination tournament, knockout rugby union competition and is organised by the Welsh Rugby Union. As of 2022, it has been divided into separate Cup competitions Premiership Cup, Championship Cup, Division 1 Cup etc. as well as the Bowl and Plate editions for other lower divisions. The competition is now seen as the top cup prize for the community game, separate from the Super Rygbi Cymru competitions. On 26 February 2007, the WRU agreed a new Pound sterling, £1 million three-year sponsorship deal with SWALEC, who had previously sponsored the event from the 1992–93 season until the 1998–99 season; the Cup was renamed the SWALEC Cup once again. The SWALEC Cup is a three-tier competition with Cup, Plate and Bowl winners. In the inaugural year, the SWALEC Plate was contested by clubs that were knocked out of the SWALEC Cup in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Penarth RFC
Penarth Rugby Football Club is a Welsh rugby union club based since 1924 at The Athletic Field, Lavernock Road, in Penarth, in the Vale of Glamorgan in Wales. Team history Origins and early history Penarth RFC was founded in 1879 by Cyril and Llewellyn Batchelor, sons of Cardiff politician John Batchelor, first named the Batchelor XV. There was another mention of a Penarth team playing in 1877 and again with the formation of a Penarth team in 1880. It joined with Penarth Dreadnoughts in 1882 and became Penarth Football Club. The team were nicknamed the "Donkey Island Butcher Boys" or the "Seasiders". Early games were played on a field which is now occupied by Penarth's All Saints Church. In 1891 the pitch was relocated to land owned by the Earl of Plymouth on Stanwell Road. This was used to grow vegetables during the 1914-18 Great War. Seventeen Penarth RFC players were killed during the war and are commemorated by the Memorial Stand above the clubhouse's Long Room. The club ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pontardawe RFC
Pontardawe Rugby Football club is a rugby union club based in Pontardawe, a small town in the valley of the River Tawe in Wales. The club has in the past had a successful junior section which provided age group rugby with fully qualified coaches from 7 through to 16, although at the moment, in line with the national trend of a decline in rugby participation, only have teams at Under 7, 13 and 14. As players move on from junior/youth rugby many other clubs, included premiership teams, have had the benefit of the early development of these players by Pontardawe. Over the years Pontardawe RFC has produced a number of first-class rugby players and coaches. In 2007 they celebrated their 125th year of being a Welsh Rugby Union member club. In May 2006 Pontardawe RFC were one of the 13 'Rebel' clubs who brought a vote of no confidence against the Welsh Rugby Union, which centered on financing and the handling of former coach Mike Ruddock's departure. The vote failed heavily with onl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brynithel RFC
Brynithel RFC is a rugby union club representing the village of Brynithel in Wales. Brynithel RFC is a member of the Welsh Rugby Union and is a feeder club for the Newport Gwent Dragons. Club history The club was formed on 1 December 1974 at the Mount Pleasant Inn, Brynithel, after a meeting of local men who were at the time playing for teams from the Mount Pleasant Inn and T9 face at Six Bells colliery. They played six matches at the end of the 1974/75 season captained by Robert Williams. The first official game was against Bargoed 2nd XV in which Brynithel opened the scoring but ended up being beaten by 50-5. The first full season for Brynithel was 1975/76 with 3 wins and 29 losses. However the club continued to prosper and its first taste of success came as they finished as runners up in the old second division of the Gwent Districts and qualified for a playoff against Hollybush RFC. The game was played in atrocious conditions with Hollybush winning by scoring the only try of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blaenavon RFC
Blaenavon Rugby Football Club are a Wales, Welsh rugby union club based in the town of Blaenavon, South Wales. Blaenavon RFC is one of the older members of the Welsh Rugby Union founded in 1877 in the Iron and coal town of Blaenavon and is a feeder club for the Dragons (rugby union), Newport Gwent Dragons. Blaenavon RFC first game was against local rivals Abergavenny on Thursday, November 8, 1877, and ended in a draw. An infamous event in the history of Blaenavon RFC, was during the final of the Godfrey Jones Cup in April 1926. The competition had been devised 'to improve Welsh rugby via the running game'. In December 1947 a combined Pontypool RFC, Pontypool, Talywain RFC, Talywain and Blaenavon side played against the Australian national rugby union team, Australian national team at Pontypool Park as part of a post-war rebuilding tour. The game ended with Australia winning 9–7. A photo and a programme are displayed in Blaenavon R.F.C. club house Blaenavon Rugby Football Club w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bryncoch RFC
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 The osprey (; ''Pandion haliaetus''), historically known as sea hawk, river hawk, and fish hawk, is a diurnal, fish-eating bird of prey with a cosmopolitan range. It is a large raptor, reaching more than in length and a wingspan of . It is .... The club fields First, Second and Youth teams. Club honours *1951/52 League Champions Neath & District. *1954/55 League Champions Neath & District. *1958/59 League Champions Neath & District. *1960/61 League Champions Neath & District. *1970/71 League Champions Neath & District. *1978 WRU Cup. *2008/09 WRU Division Four South West - Champions. Notes {{Rugby Wales links Rugby union teams in Wales Rugby union in Neath Port Talbot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ammanford RFC
Ammanford Rugby Football Club is a rugby union team from the town of Ammanford, West Wales. The club is a member of the Welsh Rugby Union and is a feeder club for the Llanelli Scarlets. History Ammanford RFC's first officially recorded rugby match came in 1887 against a team from Mynyddbach, Swansea. The game was played at Ynys field opposite the River Amman and their initial clubhouse was the Cross Inn Hotel at Ammanford Square. Ammanford's first official strip colours were amber and black, then switching colours twice before the club settled on black and blue in 1912. In 1889, Ammanford RFC produced their first international player in Percy Lloyd. Lloyd played four international matches between 1889 and 1890 for Wales, against Scotland, Ireland and England twice. During the 1895-96 season Ammanford RFC successfully gained membership to the Welsh Rugby Union. Club honours * 2007-08 WRU Division Three West - Champions * 2007-08 WRU West Wales Bowl Winners * 2008-09 SWALEC Pl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bryncethin RFC
Bryncethin Rugby Football Club is a Welsh rugby union team based in Bryncethin, South Wales. Formed in 1890, the club is a member of the Welsh Rugby Union and presently play in the WRU Division Five South Central. Club history Formed in 1890, Bryncethin quickly achieved WRU membership and by the turn of the century were represented in club competitions. In 1903 the club reached the final of a South Wales Cup, losing to a far more well established club, Llwynypia RFC. After the First World War, the club played at Pandy Park, under the promotion of a group of local businessmen. In 1924 the club was represented at an international level for the first time, when Ivor Thomas was selected to play for Wales against England in the Five Nations Championship. Thomas only won the one cap, but later went on to play for Bridgend Bridgend (; or just , meaning "the end of the bridge on the Ogmore") is a town in the Bridgend County Borough of Wales, west of Cardiff and east of Swansea. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brynamman RFC
Brynamman () is a village on the south side of the Black Mountain (''Y Mynydd Du''), part of the Brecon Beacons National Park (''Parc Cenedlaethol Bannau Brycheiniog''). The village is split into Upper Brynamman and Lower Brynamman by the River Amman, which is also the boundary between the counties of Carmarthenshire and Neath Port Talbot (in the old county of Glamorganshire). Ruins of stone dwellings (possibly prehistoric), an early type of lime kiln and rectangular medieval buildings found on the mountain show that people have lived in this area for a long time. The population of Brynamman was 2,608 as of 2011; the urban area including Gwaun-Cae-Gurwen was 5,692. Brynamman was previously known as Y Gwter Fawr (); The name was changed when the railway from Ammanford reached the village. George Borrow describes aspects of Gwter Fawr in the mid-19th century in his book ''Wild Wales'' published 1862. The current name is derived from "Brynamman House", the home of John Jones, build ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nant Conwy RFC
Nant Conwy Rugby Football Club () is a rugby union team from the upper reaches of the Conwy Valley in North Wales. The club's grounds are located on the B5106 between the town of Llanrwst and the village of Trefriw. They presently play in the Welsh Rugby Union The Welsh Rugby Union (WRU; ) is the governing body of rugby union in the country of Wales, recognised by the sport's international governing body, World Rugby. The WRU is responsible for the running of rugby in Wales, overseeing 320 member clu ... Division One North League. Although Nant Conwy have a short history, having been established only in 1980, they have managed to achieve success on the pitch, earning several division promotions in recent years. In 2007 the club successfully applied for funding to install floodlights at their ground. In 2011 the club opened a new, extended clubhouse. Club badge The club badge consists of the head of a black bull over the club's name, Clwb Rygbi Nant Conwy. Club honours *20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brecon RFC
Brecon Rugby Football Club () 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. Since 2024, the club has played in the Welsh Premier Division. Origins The club was one of the eleven founding members of the Welsh Rugby Union in 1881. Brecon, along with Pontypool RFC, Pontypool, Llandovery College, Lampeter College, Llandeilo RFC, Llandeilo and Merthyr RFC, Merthyr inaugurated the South Wales Cup competition in the 1877-78 season. 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. 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 October 1868 on the cricket field, with the captain's side beating the secretaries side. Their kit for the match was "w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bedlinog RFC
Bedlinog Rugby Football Club is a rugby union team from the village of Bedlinog, South Wales. The club was formed in its present state in 1971 by a local youth club, which was at the time organised by Welsh international Steve Fenwick. Currently the club consists of three teams; 1st's, development, and youth. The club play in the Welsh Rugby Union Division one east and is a feeder club In sports, a farm team (also referred to as farm system, developmental system, feeder team, or nursery club) is generally a team or club whose role is to provide experience and training for young players, with an agreement that any successful pl ... for the Cardiff Rugby . Club honours * 1999/00 WRU Division Six East - Champions * 2006/07 WRU Division Four South East - Champions * 2007/08 WRU Division Three South East - Champions * 2008/09 WRU Division Two South East - Runners up * 2015/16 SSE Swalec Plate Champions References Rugby union teams in Wales Sport in Merthyr Tydfil County B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |