Colours and Badge
The club colours changed from black and amber to red, white and green in the 1930s. The reason is unclear but a prominent Ebbw Vale player and later administrator, Dai Regan Jones, had played for Leicester RFC in the late 1920s and was a regular soldier in the South Wales Borderers and both Leicester and the SWB wore red, white and green, which could explain the change.
Their home colours of green, white and red represent the colours of the Welsh national flag with the second-choice shirt coloured light blue. The club's badge like many other clubs in Wales has a red dragon on it. The dragon is standing over a golden gate or drawbridge, over the dragons head is a semicircle with the club's motto of Iach Gorff Iach Meddwl. This semicircle is part of a bridge shape which is coloured in the club's and Welsh colours of red, green and white. All of this is incorporated into a shield shape with the club's name Ebbw Vale RFC embroidered on the bottom.
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