Ystalyfera RFC
Appearance
Full name | Ystalyfera Rugby Football Club | ||
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Nickname(s) | The Fera | ||
Founded | 1884 | ||
Location | Ystalyfera, Wales | ||
Ground(s) | Ynysydarren Ground | ||
Chairman | Alun Coslett Davies | ||
Coach(es) |
Rugby manager- Damian James | ||
League(s) | championship | ||
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Official website | |||
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Ystalyfera Rugby Football Club are a Welsh rugby union club based in Ystalyfera in south Wales. The club is a member of the Welsh Rugby Union and is also a feeder club for the Ospreys.[1] The club received Welsh Rugby Union status in 1904, were founder members of the West Wales League in 1929 and founder members of the National League Division 8 Central 'A' in 1994
Club honours
- West Wales Champions 1930-31
- West Wales Cup Winners 1938-39
- West Wales Section ‘C’ Champions 1976-77
- Welsh National Division 5 Central Champions 1998-99
- Swansea Valley Cup Winners 1998-99, 2011–12,2014-15
- West Wales Bowl Winners 2010-11
- 2013 division 3 south west winners
- 2017 wru plate finalist runners up
2019 silver ball Finalist 2019 west wales finalist
- 2019 division 1 west central winners
- 2018 west wales cup winners
Notable past players
Senior International players who have also played for Ystalyfera
Howell Lewis (4 caps) 1913-14
Albert Owen (1 cap) 1924
Jack Howell John (8 caps) 1926-27
Clive Rowlands (14 caps) 1962-65
History
- 2012/13 Ystalyfera RFC season
- 2011/12 Ystalyfera RFC season
- 2010/11 Ystalyfera RFC season
- 2009/10 Ystalyfera RFC season
- 2008/09 Ystalyfera RFC season
- 2007/08 Ystalyfera RFC season
- 2006/07 Ystalyfera RFC season
- 2005/06 Ystalyfera RFC season
- 2004/05 Ystalyfera RFC season
- 2003/04 Ystalyfera RFC season
- 2002/03 Ystalyfera RFC season
- 2001/02 Ystalyfera RFC season
- 2000/01 Ystalyfera RFC season
- 1999/00 Ystalyfera RFC season
- 1998/99 Ystalyfera RFC season
References
- ^ BBC News (8 July 2004). "Wales' regional rugby map". BBC. Retrieved 30 May 2008.