Ynysybwl Rugby Football Club is a Welsh

Rugby union in Wales

Rugby union is the national sport of Wales and is considered a large part of national culture. Rugby is thought to have reached Wales in the 1850s, with the national body, the Welsh Rugby Union being formed in 1881...

 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...

 team based in Ynysybwl

Ynysybwl

Ynysybwl is a village in Cwm Clydach in Wales. It is situated in the county borough of Rhondda Cynon Taf, roughly north-north-east of Cardiff, north of Pontypridd and south of Merthyr Tydfil, and forms part of the community of Ynysybwl and Coed-y-cwm....

. Today, Ynysybwl RFC plays in 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...

, Division Two East League and is a feeder club for the Cardiff Blues

Cardiff Blues

Cardiff Blues are one of the four professional Welsh regional rugby union teams. Based in Cardiff, the capital of Wales, the team have played at Cardiff City Stadium since the start of the 2009/2010 season and are owned by Cardiff Rugby Football Club....

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Ynysbwl RFC was established in 1898, there is a likelihood of rugby being played before this date but there is no reliable source to corroborate this. In the years between 1945 and 1955 Ynysybwl played in the Glamorgan League and Cup with other local clubs such as Pontypridd RFC, Ebbw Vale RFC and Glamorgan Wanderers. From the 1980's the club joined the Mid District League.

Club honours

• 1998/99 Glamorgan County Silver Ball Trophy
  Glamorgan County Silver Ball Trophy
  The Glamorgan County Silver Ball Trophy , is a Welsh rugby union competition open to all non-premier Welsh Rugby Union clubs playing in the Glamorganshire area....
  
   - Winners
• 2005/06 Glamorgan County Silver Ball Trophy - Winners
• 2005/06 Glamorgan County President's Cup - Winners

Notable past players

Garin Jenkins

Garin Jenkins

Garin Jenkins is a former Wales international rugby union player. He is the most capped Welsh hooker having attained 58 caps. Jenkins played in the Rugby Union World Cup three times : 1991, 1995 and 1999 and at the time played for Swansea RFC, a club he captained.Jenkins currently works as a...

 Staff Jones

Staff Jones

Stephen Thomas "Staff" Jones, is a former Wales rugby union international. A prop forward, he briefly played for Pontypridd RFC before making hundreds of appearances for Pontypool RFC in the 1980s, often in partnership with Steve Jones....

 Dale McIntosh

Dale McIntosh

Dale "Chief" McIntosh is a rugby union player. Born Dale Lynsey Manawa McIntosh on 23 November 1969 in the King Country, New Zealand, he has become a cult hero in his adopted country of Wales...

 Tommy Scourfield

Tommy Scourfield

Thomas 'Tommy' Scourfield was a Welsh dual code rugby international full back who played club rugby for Ynysybwl and Torquay as an amateur rugby union player and played professional rugby league with Huddersfield...

 Maama Molitika

Maama Molitika

Maama Molitika is a Tongan rugby union footballer. He is 6'5" . He has played numerous times for the national Tongan team, making his debut in June 1997 against Fiji. He was also in the Pacific Islanders rugby union team squad that toured Europe in 2006...