Maesteg RFC

Maesteg Rugby Football Club is a rugby union team from the town of Maesteg, South Wales. The club presently play in the Welsh Rugby Union Division One West and is a feeder club for the Ospreys.^[2]

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^[3]. 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

• Allan Bateman Wales international & British Lion
• Gwyn Evans Wales international and British Lion
• Ray Hopkins Wales international and British Lion
• Fred Hutchinson
• Trevor Lloyd Wales international and British Lion
• Charlie Pugh
• Alan Rees Wales international
• David Watts

Club honours

• Glamorgan Challenge Cup 1912 - Champions
• Whitbread Merit Table 1977/78 - Champions
• Whitbread Merit Table 1978/79 - Champions
• SWALEC Plate 2009/10 - Champions^[4]
• WRU Division Two West 2009.10 - Champions

External links

• Official Site

References