Cwmtwrch Rugby Football Club (Welsh: Clwb Rygbi Cwmtwrch) is a

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team officially founded in 1890. The team colours are black and white. Their home ground is Glyncynwal Park View, Cwmtwrch. Cwmtwrch currently have a Senior XV who play in the WRU West Central 5 league and is a feeder club for the

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. The first team has over 30 active squad members. The coaching team currently consists of Johnny Williams (Head Coach), Chris Murphy (Backs Coach) and Julian Phillips (Senior Team Manager). There is currently a very promising youth team that feeds into the first team. Cwmtwrch have produced promising players like

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, Morgan Morse and Llien Morgan.

1880-1914

In 1890 an official Cwmtwrch team took the field for the first time; though it is presumed that rugby had been played in the town before this. The first ground for Cwmtwrch RFC, Glyncawl Park View, is the pitch the team still plays on today, since returning there after the

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. The club's first captain was not recorded until 1903 when D.Davies held the position. In 1909 Cwmtwrch RFC merged with neighbouring club, Cwmllynfell.

Notable former players

Howell Lewis Howell Lewis (24 May 1888 – 29 May 1971) was a Wales, Welsh international rugby union wing who played club rugby for Swansea RFC, Swansea Rugby Football Club and was capped for Wales national rugby union team, Wales on four occasions. Lewis wa ...

(4 caps) * Tudor Williams (1 cap) * Albert Owen (1 cap) *

Clive Rowlands Daniel Clive Thomas Rowlands OBE (14 May 1938 – 29 July 2023) was a Welsh rugby union footballer and coach. Rowlands was born in Upper Cwmtwrch on 14 May 1938. As recorded in the preface for the book ''The Children of Craig-Y-Nos'', Rowland ...

(1 cap) *

(15 caps) * Morgan Morse * Llien Morgan

References

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