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Maesteg RFC 
Full name Maesteg Rugby Football Club Founded 1877 Location Maesteg, Wales Ground(s) Llynfi Road Chairman Nigel Williams League(s) WRU Division Two West 2009-10 1st[1] (WRU Division Two West) 
Team kitOfficial website www.maestegrfc.com 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]
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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
References
- ^ WRU official site
- ^ BBC News (2004-07-08). "Wales' regional rugby map". BBC. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_union/welsh/3877085.stm. Retrieved 2008-05-20.
- ^ Fields of Praise, The Official History of the Welsh Rugby Union 1881-1981, pp11 David Smith, Gareth Williams (1980)
- ^ Maesteg claim SWALEC Plate WRU.co.uk, 8 May 2010
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