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Amman United RFC

Full name	Amman United Rugby Football Club
Founded	1903
Location	Garnant, Wales
Ground(s)	Cwmamman Park (Capacity: 500)
Coach(es)	Adrian Thomas & Sean Caddell
Captain(s)	Sean Mangan
League(s)	WRU 3 West B
2016-17	1st
Team kit
Official website
www.pitchero.com/clubs/ammanutd

Amman United Rugby Football Club (Welsh: Yr Aman) is a Welsh rugby union team from the Amman valley north of Swansea. The club plays at Cwmamman Recreation Ground between Garnant and Glanamman; before the coal-mining boom the two towns were a single village called Cwmamman.

The club is a member of the Welsh Rugby Union and is a feeder club for the Scarlets regional team. Amman United has supplied several players to the Wales rugby union team including Claude Davey and Tom Day and in Trevor Evans and Shane Williams, members of the British and Irish Lions.

Amman United came second in the WRU Division Four West and were promoted in 2012; by the end of the year they were leading WRU Division Three West. In 2017 Amman UTD won the national bowl in Principality Stadium and also were crowned champions of WRU Division 3B West undefeated.

Notable former players

• Tom Day
• Carwyn James
• Trevor Evans
• Joe Rees
• William "Billo" Rees
• Shane Williams
• Dai Davies
• Ted Ward
• Gav Lewis British Army & Combined Services
• Joel Foster RAF & Combined Services
• Iwan Davies RAF

References

1. "WRU official site". Archived from the original on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2013-01-08.
2. "The Scarlets : Regional Club Directory". Scarlets. 2009. Archived from the original on 9 April 2012. Retrieved 8 January 2013.

External links

• The Centenary History of Amman United Rugby Football Club, 1903-2003
• History of Cwmamman Recreational Ground
• Rick O'Shea visits Shane Williams's home club - TV segment

• Rugby clubs established in 1903
• Rugby union teams in Wales