Aberdare RLFC information

Aberdare Rugby League Football Club was a professional rugby league club based in Aberdare, Wales playing in the Welsh League and Northern Union. Playing...

Aberdare (/ˌæbərˈdɛər/ ab-ər-DAIR; Welsh: Aberdâr ) is a town in the Cynon Valley area of Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales, at the confluence of the Rivers Dare...

and sportsmen' met in March 1908 to agree financing, and from this Aberdare RLFC was formed. The second match was another international, this time the...

to bad feeling in the rugby community of Aberdare, and was a major factor in Aberdare founding Aberdare RLFC, one of the first professional rugby league...

International capped players Notes Aberdare RLFC 1908 1909 Will Hopkins for Wales 1908 against England Barry RLFC 1908 1908 Ebbw Vale RLFC 1907 1912 Oliver Burgham...

Welsh rugby union international Dai Jones. Aberdare RLFC, Barry RLFC, Mid-Rhondda RLFC and Treherbert RLFC are formed, joining Ebbw Vale and Merthyr Tydfil...

for Wales, and at club level for Aberdare, as a scrum-half, i.e. number 7. Hopkins won a cap for Wales while at Aberdare in the 7-31 defeat by England at...

not only joined the Northern Union, but with the addition of Barry and Aberdare, the six newly formed teams set up the Welsh League. Treherbert's first...

the half-mile distance (at Pontypridd). Rugby league Aberdare RLFC, Barry RLFC and Mid-Rhondda RLFC fold after just one season. The first Welsh League competition...

professional' being founded on 15 July 1907, the same month that Merthyr Tydfil RLFC formed. The team formed out of Ebbw Vale RFC, an amateur rugby union team...

Wales and the WNU soon folded. In 1907 two Welsh clubs Ebbw Vale RLFC and Merthyr Tydfil RLFC joined the Northern Union and also competed in the Challenge...

poor, with defeats to Mid-Rhondda, Aberdare, Keighley and Treherbert. On 12 December the team was drawn to play Aberdare in the first round of the Challenge...

Alexandria. At the club's AGM in July 1907, E.M. Rees, the former secretary of Aberdare RFC, alleged that Merthyr was involved in professionalism. He stated that...

early attempt to bring rugby league to Wales, saw local team Merthyr Tydfil RLFC set up at the rival College Ground. This in turn led to the larger Penydarren...

New Zealand side that Wales first played against in 1908, winning 9–8 at Aberdare. Since then, Wales have regularly played England, since 1935 France, as...

1932. During 1926–27 the ground was home to rugby league team Pontypridd RLFC until the club folded part way through the 1927–28 season. The site still...

The final home Test for Great Britain against New Zealand, played at Wigan RLFC's DW stadium in 2007...

Wales and the WNU soon folded. In 1907 two Welsh clubs Ebbw Vale RLFC and Merthyr Tydfil RLFC joined the Northern Union and also competed in the Challenge...