This is a list of past and present
Cardiff Rugby
Cardiff Rugby ( cy, Rygbi Caerdydd) are one of the four professional Welsh rugby union teams. They compete in the United Rugby Championship and in European Professional Club Rugby competitions.
Based in Cardiff, the team play at Cardiff Arms ...
players who have been
capped by their country whilst at the club. Ten nations have played international matches with teams featuring Cardiff City players.
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Wales
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Aled Brew
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Gareth Cooper
Gareth Cooper (born 7 May 1979 in Bridgend) is a former Wales international rugby union player who played in the scrum-half position.
Career
Cooper started playing rugby with Pencoed before moving to Bath in the West Country.
Cooper made his in ...
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Chris Czekaj
Chris Czekaj (born 14 December 1985) is a retired Wales international rugby union player, who played fullback or wing. He most recently played for Merthyr RFC, and spent most of his career with Cardiff Blues. He represented Wales and Wales U21 ...
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Bradley Davies
Bradley Davies (born 9 January 1987) is a Welsh international rugby union player for the Ospreys in the Pro14. His is the son of the former lock for Pontypridd; Bleddyn Davies.
Career
Bradley's first position as a youngster was outside half ...
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Leigh Halfpenny
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Iestyn Harris
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Tom James
Thomas James MBE (born 11 March 1984) is a British rower, twice Olympic champion and victorious Cambridge Blue. In a British coxless four in 2012 he set a world's best time which still stood as of 2021.
Background and early life
James was bor ...
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Gethin Jenkins
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Deiniol Jones
Deiniol Jones (born 18 November 1977) is a Welsh former professional rugby union player who played as a lock. Born in Carmarthen, he played for the Carmarthen Quins youth team before moving to study chemistry at the University of Bath in 1997. T ...
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Scott Morgan
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Mike Phillips
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Andy Powell
Andrew Powell (born 19 February 1950) is an English guitarist, singer and songwriter. He is a founding member of the British band Wishbone Ash, whose use of twin lead guitars was influential.
Early life and career
Powell was born in the East E ...
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Richie Rees
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Jamie Roberts
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Jamie Robinson
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Nicky Robinson
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Tom Shanklin
Tomos George Llewellyn Shanklin (born 24 November 1979 in Harrow, London) is a former Welsh rugby union player who played outside centre for Cardiff Blues and Wales. He played club rugby for London Welsh and then Saracens, before joining Ca ...
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Robert Sidoli
Roberto Andrew "Rob" Sidoli (born 21 June 1979), also known as Robert Sidoli, is a former Welsh international rugby union player. He has won 42 caps for Wales as a lock forward.
Born in Merthyr Tydfil, he played for his school, Bishop Hedley H ...
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Robin Sowden-Taylor
Robin Sowden-Taylor (born 9 June 1982) is a Welsh international rugby player.
Sowden-Taylor won his first Wales cap in the win over Italy in 2005 as part of the squad that won the Grand Slam that year. He was also a member of the 2008 Grand Sla ...
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Gareth Thomas
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T. Rhys Thomas
Thomas Rhys Thomas (born 23 April 1982 in Abercynon, Wales) is a former Wales International rugby player. His usual position was at hooker. Thomas made a try-scoring debut for the Cardiff Blues against Celtic Warriors on 27 December 2003. He ma ...
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Sam Warburton
Sam Kennedy-Warburton, OBE MStJ (born 5 October 1988), commonly known as Sam Warburton, is a Welsh former international rugby union player. Warburton played rugby for Cardiff Rugby and was first capped for Wales in 2009. He usually played as ...
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Gareth Williams
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Martyn Williams
Martyn Elwyn Williams, (born 1 September 1975) is a former Wales and British & Irish Lions international rugby union player. A flanker, he was Wales' most-capped forward with 100 caps until surpassed by Gethin Jenkins on 30 November 2013. He ...
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Rhys Williams
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John Yapp
John Yapp (born 9 April 1983) is a Welsh international rugby union player, currently with Edinburgh. He first played for Cardiff during the Christmas period in 2002. He made his first team debut against Ebbw Vale on Boxing Day at the age of 18. ...
Australia
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Sam Norton-Knight
Sam Norton-Knight (born 2 December 1983, in Canberra) is an Australian international rugby union footballer. He was born in Canberra but was educated on the Gold Coast.
Norton-Knight was selected in the under-19 ACT team and subsequently made h ...
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Marc Stcherbina
Canada
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Ed Fairhurst
Fiji
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Mosese Luveitasau
New Zealand
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Ben Blair
Ben Austin Blair (born 26 March 1979 in Westport, New Zealand) is a former rugby union footballer. He played four tests for New Zealand. He scored 37 points on his All Blacks debut against Ireland A in 2001 at Ravenhill in Belfast; however, a ...
Scotland
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Dan Parks
Daniel Arthur Parks (born 26 May 1978) is an Australian-born former international rugby union player and now coach. His primary playing position was at fly-half.
Parks played professionally for Pro12 sides Glasgow Warriors, Cardiff Blues an ...
Tonga
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Maama Molitika
Maama Molitika (26 August 1974) is a Tongan former rugby union footballer. He is 6'5". He has played numerous times for the national Tongan team, making his debut in June 1997 against Fiji. He was also in the Pacific Islanders rugby union team sq ...
United States
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Kort Schubert
Kort Schubert (born July 24, 1979 in Sacramento, California) is a former United States, American rugby union footballer who captained the United States national rugby union team, United States national team. He played flanker, number eight and lock ...
References
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Cardiff Rugby players