Maesteg RFC

Maesteg RFC
Full nameMaesteg Rugby Football Club
Founded1877
LocationMaesteg, Wales
Ground(s)Llynfi Road
ChairmanDennis Thomas
League(s)WRU Division Three B West Central
2021-221st[1] ])
Team kit
Official website
www.maestegrfc.com

Maesteg Rugby Football Club is a rugby union team from the town of Maesteg, South Wales. The club currently play in the Division 3B west Central Welsh Rugby Union and is a feeder club for the Ospreys.

Club history

Maesteg RFC was formed in 1877 in the Llynfi Valley, in the county of Glamorgan. They were county league champions 1912 to 1913. The 1949 team completed their season without losing a single game. In 1978 and 1979 they were the Whitbread league champions. In 1982 they played the Irish Wolfhounds, Crawshays RFC, Toronto Welsh RFC, German Federation and the New Zealand Māoris; they held the latter to a 10–10 draw. These games were thought at the time to be part of the centenary season of the club.[2] It was later discovered that this was untrue, as the centenary was five years earlier.

Maesteg were promoted to the Welsh Premier Division in 2005, but were relegated back to division one when they came bottom of the league in the 2007/08 season.

Notable former players

See also Category:Maesteg RFC players

The below players have represented Maesteg and have been capped at international level.

Club honours

  • Glamorgan Challenge Cup 1912 - Champions
  • Whitbread Merit Table 1977/78 - Champions
  • Whitbread Merit Table 1978/79 - Champions
  • SWALEC Plate 2009/10 - Champions[3]
  • WRU Division Two West 2009.10 - Champions

References

  1. ^ WRU official site Archived 2010-11-30 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ Fields of Praise, The Official History of the Welsh Rugby Union 1881-1981, pp11 David Smith, Gareth Williams (1980)
  3. ^ Maesteg claim SWALEC Plate[permanent dead link‍] WRU.co.uk, 8 May 2010


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