Blaenavon RFC

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Blaenavon RFC
Full name Blaenavon Rugby Football Club
Founded 1877[1]
Location Blaenavon
Ground(s) Recreation Ground
League(s) WRU Division Five East
2008-09 4th[2]
Team kit

Blaenavon Rugby Football Club are a Welsh rugby union club based in the village of Blaenavon, South Wales. Blaenavon RFC is a member of the Welsh Rugby Union and is a feeder club for the Newport Gwent Dragons.[3]


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', but the 1926 final was an ugly and vicious affair, and although Blaenavon beat Cross Keys 6-5, the referee sent six players off before the final whistle.[4]

In December 1947 a combined Pontypool, Talywain and Blaenavon side played against the Australian national team at Pontypool Park as part of a post-war rebuilding tour. The game ended 0-0.

[edit] Notable players

[edit] References

  1. ^ Fields of Praise, The Official History of the Welsh Rugby Union 1881-1981, David Smith, Gareth Williams (1980) pg 11 ISBN 0708307663
  2. ^ WRU website
  3. ^ BBC News (2004-07-08). "Wales' regional rugby map". BBC. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_union/welsh/3877085.stm. Retrieved 2008-06-20. 
  4. ^ Fields of Praise, The Official History of the Welsh Rugby Union 1881-1981, David Smith, Gareth Williams (1980) pg 245 ISBN 0708307663


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