Wrexham Rugby Football Club (Welsh: Clwb Rygbi Wrecsam) is a
Welsh rugby union
Rugby union football, commonly known simply as rugby union in English-speaking countries and rugby 15/XV in non-English-speaking world, Anglophone Europe, or often just rugby, is a Contact sport#Terminology, close-contact team sport that orig ...
team based in
Wrexham
Wrexham ( ; ) is a city status in the United Kingdom, city in the North East Wales, north-east of Wales. It lies between the Cambrian Mountains, Welsh mountains and the lower River Dee, Wales, Dee Valley, near the England–Wales border, borde ...
,
Wales
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. Wrexham RFC is a member of 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 ...
. Wrexham was one of the nine founder clubs of the North Wales Rugby Union, which formed at Wrexham in 1931.
History
Wrexham RFC was founded in 1925.
In 1931, at a meeting held by Wrexham, the North Wales Rugby Union was founded in January 1931 with nine clubs and affiliation to the Welsh Rugby Union coming in June of the same year.
[ Originally Wrexham had no home ground and played as a nomadic club. This continued until 1946 when they obtained their own ground at Dean Road. In 1976 they moved to their current home ground on Bryn Estyn Lane in 1976 with floodlights being installed a year later.][
In 1995, the New Zealand national team player ]Jonah Lomu
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made a guest appearance for Wrexham RFC against a North Wales XV in an exhibition match.[ This was five months after Lomu had appeared for the All Blacks in the ]1995 Rugby World Cup final
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South Africa ...
against South Africa
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and after rugby union had just permitted professionalism.
Following the introduction of regional rugby union teams in Wales, Wrexham's coach led criticism of the fact that there was no professional regional team permanently based in North Wales. In 2013, Wrexham won the WRU Division Three North title. Until 2002, Wrexham RFC had run a ladies rugby team. The ladies side of the club was resurrected in 2019.
References
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Sport in Wrexham
Rugby union teams in Wales