Abertillery RFC

Abertillery BG RFC
Full nameAbertillery Blaenau Gwent Rugby Football Club
Nickname(s)Green Army
Founded1883
LocationAbertillery, Wales
Ground(s)Abertillery Park – capacity 15,250
Coach(es)Matt Penny & Nick Meredith
League(s)WRU Division 2 East
2022/231st[1] WRU Division Two East
Team kit
Official website
www.facebook.com/Abertillery.BG.RFC
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Abertillery Rugby Football Club is a Welsh rugby union club based in Abertillery. According to their website, they were founded in 1883 by a coal miner named Doug Wallace who was a local resident who moved from Scotland in 1882, Wallace was known for his commitment for the club until he died in 1899 and will be remembered as a special part of the club even to do this day. Every year the club celebrates Wallace's life by competing in a cross country race with 100s of the locals competing in the last 10 years Mr Phelps has won the race 10 times and is now the all-time leading winner in the competition, in one year he run the race twice before anyone had cross the line for the first time.

  1. ^ "WRU official site". Archived from the original on 5 March 2014. Retrieved 27 May 2012.