New Tredegar Rugby Football Club is a Welsh rugby union club team based in New Tredegar. Today, New Tredegar RFC plays in the Welsh Rugby Union, Division Four East League and is a feeder club for the Newport Gwent Dragons.[2] At present the club runs two senior sides and a youth side.

New Tredegar RFC
Full nameNew Tredegar Rugby Football Club
Nickname(s)Rhinos/Newts
Founded1977
LocationNew Tredegar, Wales
Ground(s)Grove Park
Coach(es)Phil Osborne
Anthony Curry
Colin Jones
League(s)WRU Division 3 East B
2018-197th[1]
Team kit
Official website
www.newtredegarrfc.com

New Tredegar RFC started life in 1977 when it was decided that a senior XV team was required to permit the youth players, who had a team in since the early 1960s, to play locally at a higher level. By 1980 the club was fielding a second senior XV and after joining the Gwent District league in 1994 the team won their first piece of silverware, the Cyrus Davies cup. The club achieved WRU status that year and in the 1995/96 season the club was placed in the lower rungs of the official Welsh leagues. Although they lost their opening match to Machen, they eventually gained in confidence to win the league in their first season. In 1999 the club managed to buy the Liberal Club which has now become their headquarters.

Club honours

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  • 1995/96 WRU Welsh League Division Eight East - Champions
  • 2011/12 Swalec Bowl Finalists

Millennium Stadium - Runners Up

References

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  1. ^ "WRU Official website". Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 29 May 2012.
  2. ^ BBC News (8 July 2004). "Wales' regional rugby map". BBC. Retrieved 19 August 2008.