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| Full name | Pontypool Rugby Football Club | |
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| Nickname(s) | Pooler | |
| Founded | 1868 | |
| Location | Pontypool, Wales | |
| Ground(s) | Pontypool Park (Capacity: 8,800) | |
| Coach(es) | Tom Hancock | |
| Captain(s) | Michael Herbert | |
| League(s) | Super Rygbi Cymru | |
| 2023-2024 | Indigo Group Premiership, 6th [1] | |
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| Official website | ||
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Pontypool Rugby Football Club is a Welsh rugby union team based in the town of Pontypool, which plays in the WRU SUPER RYGBI CYMRU league. Since the regionalisation of Welsh rugby in 2003, Pontypool RFC is now a feeder club to the Dragons regional team.[2] Pontypool play their home matches at Pontypool Park. Their traditional home kit is a red, white and black-hooped shirt and socks with white shorts, although they did gradually shift to wearing black shorts post-2003.
Pontypool has a long history within Welsh rugby and is one of the country's most notable clubs, being present at the formation of the Welsh Rugby Union in 1881, but disbanding before the turn of the 19th century. The club reformed in 1901 and produced many notable Wales and British Lions international players, including the Jones brothers in the early 20th century and the famed 'Pontypool Front Row' of Charlie Faulkner, Graham Price and Bobby Windsor in the 1970s. The club's 'Golden Era' is generally accepted as the 1970s and 1980s when, under the coaching of Ray Prosser, the first team won the Welsh Club Championship in 1973 and 1975.
- ^ "SWALEC Championship | Welsh Rugby Union | Official Website : Table". Archived from the original on 9 May 2013. Retrieved 9 May 2013.
- ^ BBC News (8 July 2004). "Wales' regional rugby map". BBC. Retrieved 8 November 2009.