Cefnethin Rugby Football Club (Welsh: Clwb Rygbi Cefneithin) is a
Welsh rugby union
Rugby union, commonly known simply as rugby, is a close-contact team sport that originated at Rugby School in the first half of the 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand. In it ...
team from
Cefneithin
Cefneithin () is a village and community in Carmarthenshire, Wales, in the Carmarthenshire coalfield area. It lies just off the A48 road, 7 miles north west of Ammanford and 9 miles north of Llanelli. Its nearby community villages include Cross ...
,
Ammanford, officially founded in 1929. Cefnethin RFC is a member of the
Welsh Rugby Union and is a feeder club for the
Llanelli 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 ...
.
The club fields a first, seconds and youth team.
Club honours
* 2008/09
WRU Division Five West - Champions
* 2018/19
WRU 3b West Central - Champions
Notable former players
*
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 ...
(2 caps)
*
Barry John
Barry John (born 6 January 1945) is a former Welsh rugby union fly-half who played, during the amateur era of the sport, in the 1960s, and early 1970s. John began his rugby career as a schoolboy playing for his local team Cefneithin RFC bef ...
* William John Jones (1 cap)
References
Welsh rugby union teams
Sport in Carmarthenshire
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