Cwmavon Rugby Football Club also known as Cwmafan Rugby Football Club is a rugby union

Rugby union

Rugby union, often simply referred to as rugby, is a full contact team sport which originated in England in the early 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand...

 club based in Cwmafan

Cwmafan

Cwmafan is a large village and community in the Afan valley in Wales, lying within Neath Port Talbot County Borough. It has a population of 5,603. In many ways it is a suburb of the nearby town of Port Talbot which is less than to the south, but it is separated from the town by the local...

, Wales

Wales

Wales is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain, bordered by England to its east and the Atlantic Ocean and Irish Sea to its west. It has a population of three million, and a total area of 20,779 km²...

. Cwmavon RFC is a member club of the Welsh Rugby Union

Welsh Rugby Union

The Welsh Rugby Union is the governing body of rugby union in Wales, recognised by the International Rugby Board.The union's patron is Queen Elizabeth II, and her grandson Prince William of Wales became the Vice Royal Patron of the Welsh Rugby Union as of February 2007.-History:The roots of the...

, and is a feeder club for the Ospreys.

The club badge depicts a shield split in half vertically with the left side containing the Lamb of God rampant and the right side a red dragon

Flag of Wales

The Flag of Wales consists of a red dragon passant on a green and white field. As with many heraldic charges, the exact representation of the dragon is not standardised and many renderings exist....

 rampant. A banner underneath bears the club name.

Cwmavon RFC has seen several past players selected to represent the Wales national team

Wales national rugby union team

The Wales national rugby union team represent Wales in international rugby union tournaments. They compete annually in the Six Nations Championship with England, France, Ireland, Italy and Scotland. Wales have won the Six Nations and its predecessors 24 times outright, second only to England with...

; although none of them did so while playing with the club having moved on to more senior teams.

Former players of note

Cliff Ashton Barry Clegg Emlyn Davies

Emlyn Davies

Emlyn Davies was a Welsh international rugby union prop who played club rugby for Swansea and Aberavon and county rugby for Glamorgan. He was capped for Wales national rugby union team on two occasions....

 (2 caps) Trevor Lloyd

Trevor Lloyd

Trevor Lloyd is a former international rugby union player.Lloyd hailed from Port Talbot, where he started playing club rugby with the Aberavon Quins RFC, he made his debut for Wales on 14 March 1953 versus Ireland and was selected for the 1955 British Lions tour to South Africa...

 Walter Vickery

Walter Vickery

Walter Vickery was an international rugby union back row who represented Wales and played club rugby for Aberavon...

 (4 caps) Anthony Noble (8 caps)