LAUGHARNE SPORT

Laugharne Rugby Football Club

Club History

No one is quite sure when Laugharne Rugby Football Club was formed or the game itself played here. Their Centenary was celebrated during the 1993/94 season and the earliest actual proof of the club’s formation is a photo dated 1893/94. 

However, it is said locally that Laugharne had a Rugby team in 1883, and quite probably in 1879, two years before the formation of the Welsh Rugby Union. In its early years, the Club played games on a friendly basis, not joining any League or Section, although Laugharne entered a League in Pembrokeshire in the 1930’s and after the War regularly competed in the Pembrokeshire Cup.

The Rugby Club got their current field, Wooford's around 1951 where they have played ever since. The Changing Rooms where built in 1959 and have changed very little since. The main stand was built in 1992 ready for the centenary season of 1993/94.

In the early Fifties, Laugharne affiliated to Llanelli & District Junior Union and in 1956 adopted a formal constitution which is carefully preserved in the Minute Book for 1958/65. 

In the 1971/72 Laugharne joined the West Wales Rugby Union and began playing competitive rugby for the first time. Besides playing in the West Wales League, moving up a section some years and dropping down in others, Laugharne also competed each year in the Cup and began travelling further afield for friendly games against other clubs such as Czechoslovakia, Poland, Portugal and Spain. 

The club now plays in the WRU Nation League Division 3 and is proud to include players from as far away as Bancyfelin, Whitland and Tavernspite in their current senior squad

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