Tondu RFC

Tondu RFC
Full nameTondu Rugby Football Club
Nickname(s)The Waterwheelers
Founded1880
LocationAberkenfig, Wales
Ground(s)Pandy Park
PresidentMr Ken James
Coach(es)Mathew Tatchel, Dean Fitzgerald
League(s)WRU Championship
2013-149th[1]
Team kit
Official website
tondu.rfc.wales
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Tondu Rugby Football Club is a rugby union team from the village of Aberkenfig, South Wales. They presently play in the Welsh Rugby Union Championship and are a feeder club for the Ospreys.[2]

During the early 1990s Tondu RFC dominated the Glamorgan County Silver Ball competition, winning the trophy in 1991, 1992 and 1993. Tondu are the joint leading winners of the competition having now won it on four occasions.

An ad first appeared in "The Western Mail" on 22 November 1879, announcing the formation of the Tondu Football Club.[3]

  1. ^ WRU Official Site
  2. ^ BBC News (8 July 2004). "Wales' regional rugby map". BBC. Retrieved 30 May 2008.
  3. ^ "---TONDU.|1879-11-22|Weekly Mail - Welsh Newspapers".