Brecon RFC

Rugby team

Brecon RFCFull name| Brecon Rugby Football Club

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Founded| 1874[1]
Location| Brecon, Wales
Ground(s)| Parc de Pugh
President| Andy Lewis
Coach(es)| Dale McIntosh
League(s)| Welsh Premier Division
2023-2024| Welsh Championship West - 2nd (promoted) [2]

Team kit

Official website
www.breconrfc.co.uk

Brecon Rugby Football Club (Welsh: Clwb Rygbi Aberhonddu) is a rugby union club from the town of Brecon, Mid Wales. The club is a member of the Welsh Rugby Union and is a feeder club for Cardiff Rugby.[3]

The club was one of the eleven founding members of the Welsh Rugby Union in 1881.[4] Brecon, along with Pontypool, Llandovery College, Lampeter College, Llandeilo and Merthyr inaugurated the South Wales Cup competition in the 1877-78 season.[5]

The first recorded match with a Brecon rugby team first appeared on 9 November 1867 in "The Brecon County Times" where a Town team from Brecon lost 2-0 to Christ's College, Brecon on 6 November 1867.[6]

An ad appeared on 24 October 1868, in The Brecon County Times, stating the formation of a new club in the town, playing their inaugural match on 21/10/1868 on the cricket field, with the captain's side beating the secretaries side. Their kit for the match was "white Jerseys bound with green, and a fleur-de-lis on the left side". There was no name of the new club mentioned.[7] On 9 January 1869, another team was formed in Brecon, called "The United Rangers".[8]

## Club honours

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* 2018-19 WRU Plate - Winners

## Past players of note

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See also: Category:Brecon RFC players

* Edward Perkins Alexander
* Bill Clement
* Dewi Morris
* Andy Powell
* George Ruddick
* Richard Garnons Williams
* Mark Wyatt

## References

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1. ^ Fields of Praise, The Official History of the Welsh Rugby Union 1881-1981, David Smith, Gareth Williams (1980) pg 11 ISBN 0-7083-0766-3
2. ^ "WRU official website". Archived from the original on 12 October 2014. Retrieved 29 May 2012.
3. ^ BBC News (8 July 2004). "Wales' regional rugby map". BBC. Retrieved 20 July 2008.
4. ^ Fields of Praise, The Official History of the Welsh Rugby Union 1881-1981, David Smith, Gareth Williams (1980) pg 41 ISBN 0-7083-0766-3
5. ^ Fields of Praise, The Official History of the Welsh Rugby Union 1881-1981, David Smith, Gareth Williams (1980) p.43 ISBN 0-7083-0766-3
6. ^ "[No title]|1867-11-09|The Brecon County Times Neath Gazette and General Advertiser for the Counties of Brecon Carmarthen Radnor Monmouth Glamorgan Cardigan Montgomery Hereford - Welsh Newspapers".
7. ^ "[No title]|1868-10-24|The Brecon County Times Neath Gazette and General Advertiser for the Counties of Brecon Carmarthen Radnor Monmouth Glamorgan Cardigan Montgomery Hereford - Welsh Newspapers".
8. ^ "[No title]|1869-01-09|The Brecon County Times Neath Gazette and General Advertiser for the Counties of Brecon Carmarthen Radnor Monmouth Glamorgan Cardigan Montgomery Hereford - Welsh Newspapers".

## External links

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* Brecon Rugby Football Club

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