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.
| Full name | Amman United Rugby Football Club | |
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| 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 [1] | |
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| Official website | ||
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The club is a member of the Welsh Rugby Union and is a feeder club for the Scarlets regional team.[2] 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
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- ^ "WRU official site". Archived from the original on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2013-01-08.
- ^ "The Scarlets : Regional Club Directory". Scarlets. 2009. Archived from the original on 9 April 2012. Retrieved 8 January 2013.