Amman United Rugby Football Club () is a

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team from the Amman valley north of Swansea. The club plays at Cwmamman Recreation Ground between

Garnant Garnant is a Welsh mining village in the valley of the River Amman in Carmarthenshire, north of Swansea. Like the neighbouring village of Glanamman it experienced a coal-mining boom in the 19th and early 20th centuries, but the last big colli ...

and

Glanamman Glanamman ( cy, Glanaman) is a Welsh mining village in the valley of the River Amman in Carmarthenshire. Glanamman has long been a stronghold of the Welsh language; village life is largely conducted in Welsh. Like the neighbouring village of Gar ...

; before the coal-mining boom the two towns were a single village called

Cwmamman Cwmamman is a community in Carmarthenshire, about 12 miles north of Swansea in southwest Wales. Literally meaning "Amman valley", it takes its name from the River Amman which runs through the area. Cwmamman was the original name of the area but ...

. The club is a member of the

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and is a

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for the

Scarlets The Scarlets () are one of the four professional Welsh rugby union teams and are based in Llanelli, Wales. Their home ground is the Parc y Scarlets stadium. They play in the United Rugby Championship and the European Rugby Champions Cup (which ...

regional team. Amman United has supplied several players to the

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rugby union team including

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and Tom Day and in Trevor Evans, one member of the

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. Amman United came second in the

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and were promoted in 2012; by the end of the year they were leading

WRU Division Three West The Welsh Rugby Union Division Three West (also called the SWALEC Division Three West for sponsorship reasons) is a rugby union league in Wales. Competition format and sponsorship Competition There are 12 clubs in the WRU Division Three West. Du ...

. In 2017 Amman UTD won the national bowl in Principality Stadium and also were crowned champions of WRU Division 3B West undefeated.

Shane Williams Shane Mark Williams, (born 26 February 1977) is a Welsh rugby union player most famous for his long and successful tenure as a wing for the Ospreys and the Wales national team. He also played scrum-half on occasion. Williams is the record t ...

, the record try scorer for Wales, still lives in the area, he now plays for Amman UTD and continues his involvement in the club. The club has a history of unearthing naturally gifted wingers, Geraint Bapo (Beebap) and Owen Spud Madge to name but a few. It is an internationally acknowledged travesty that its most prodigious son was never bestowed with a Lions cap (let alone a Welsh one). Only Warren Gatland, and Gareth Jenkins and Mike Ruddock before him know the answer to the best kept secret in Welsh rugby. Why has Christopher Preston not represented his country? An eternal hero in the red of Amman regardless.

Notable former players

* Tom Day *

Carwyn James Carwyn Rees James (2 November 1929 – 10 January 1983) was a Welsh rugby union player and coach. He won two Welsh international caps but is most famous for his coaching achievements with Llanelli, the 1971 British Lions and the Barbarians, with ...

* Trevor Evans * Joe Rees * William "Billo" Rees *

* Dai Davies *

Ted Ward Edward H. Ward (1917 – May 1988) was a Welsh rugby union, and professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s, and coached rugby league in the 1950s. He played club level rugby union (RU) for Amman United RFC, L ...

Geraint’bapo’

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External links

The Centenary History of Amman United Rugby Football Club, 1903-2003Rick O'Shea visits Shane Williams's home club
- TV segment {{DEFAULTSORT:Amman United Rfc Rugby clubs established in 1903 Welsh rugby union teams