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| Full name | Lampeter Town Rugby Football Club | |
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| Nickname(s) | The Maroons | |
| Founded | 1875 | |
| Location | Lampeter, Wales | |
| Region | Llanelli Scarlets | |
| Ground(s) | North Road | |
| Coach(es) |  Paul Jones, Mark Lewis (forwards) | |
| Captain(s) | Aled Thomas | |
| League(s) | WRU Division Three West | |
| 2011-12 | 10th[1] | |
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| Official website | ||
| www | ||
Lampeter Town Rugby Football Club is a rugby union team from the town of Lampeter, West Wales. The club is a member of the Welsh Rugby Union and is a feeder club for the Llanelli Scarlets.[2]
Lampeter is believed to be the first town in Wales to field a rugby union team when in 1850 the Reverend Professor Rowland Williams brought the game with him from Cambridge to St. David's College, Lampeter.[3] Although no evidence exists of the origination of Lampeter RFC as a separate club team from Lampeter College there is written proof of a match in the Western Mail between the college team and a Lampeter club in 1879. In 1881 the Carmarthen Journal reported representatives from Lampeter were present at the formation of the Welsh Rugby Union.[4]
Lampeter have now spent a number of seasons in Division Three West of the WRU league structure, finishing 8th in 2009-2010.
- ^ "WRU official site". Archived from the original on 2014-08-08. Retrieved 2012-05-27.
- ^ BBC News (2004-07-08). "Wales' regional rugby map". BBC. Retrieved 2008-05-31.
- ^ Fields of Praise, The Official History of the Welsh Rugby Union 1881-1981, David Smith, Gareth Williams (1980) p.22 ISBN 0-7083-0766-3
- ^ Fields of Praise, The Official History of the Welsh Rugby Union 1881-1981, David Smith, Gareth Williams (1980) p.41 ISBN 0-7083-0766-3