Machen RFC

Machen RFC
Full name Machen Rugby Football Club
Founded c1880
Location Machen, Wales
Ground(s) The Welfare Ground
League(s) WRU Division Four East
2011-12 10th[1]
Team kit
Official website
machenrfc.275mb.com

Machen Rugby Football Club is a Welsh rugby union club based in Machen near the city of Newport. Machen RFC is a member of the Welsh Rugby Union and is a feeder club for the Newport Gwent Dragons.[2]

Rugby football was played in Machen from the early 1870s, but Machen RFC can be placed as playing as a club from the early 1880s. One of the club's earliest and most notable players was Frank Purdon, who would later go on to play from Newport and Wales.

The club has two notable local rivalries with Risca and Bedwas.

Former notable players

References

  1. ↑ WRU official site
  2. ↑ BBC News (2004-07-08). "Wales' regional rugby map". BBC. Retrieved 2008-06-10.
  3. ↑ Fields of Praise, The Official History of the Welsh Rugby Union 1881-1981, David Smith, Gareth Williams (1980) pg 470 ISBN 0-7083-0766-3