Club History
Waunarlwydd RFC was formed in 1900 and originally played on what is now the Common at Mynydd Bach Y Glo. The team changed at the Arcade, this being the name of the building on the corner of Swansea Road and Bryn Road. There were no club colours and players provided their own jerseys, whatever the colour. In 1908 Waunarlwydd played in a Championship final at St. Helen's. Their opponents were Baycliff, a team from the Sandfields area a match which saw Waunarlwydd have eight players sent off.
The club tasted their first championship success in season 1921-1922 when they won the Third Division Championship of the Swansea & District Rugby Union. In 1933 made its first application for membership of the Welsh Rugby Union. The team won the Swansea and District Rugby Union league and cup double in the 1950/51 season.
In the 1984/85 season the 'green and blacks' reached the West Wales Cup Final following victories against Ystradgynlais, Tumble and Seven Sisters in the preceding rounds. Waunarlwydd RFC met, and lost to, Carmarthen Athletic in the final.
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