Caerphilly RFC
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-->Caerphilly Rugby Football Club is a Welsh rugby union team founded in 1887. Their home ground is Virginia Park in Caerphilly. Their nickname is The Cheesemen.
They are playing in the Asda League Division 1 in the 2005-2006 season.
The club was formed in 1887, and have spent many years in the top divisions of Welsh league rugby. Their home ground Virginia Park is a small stadium with all-seated stands on either side of the pitch and a non-seated stand at one end of the pitch. When rain falls during a home game, the regular standing fans allegedly tend to chant "We wanna roof! We wanna roof" till the rain (or the game) finishes. Caerphilly also featured in two recent cup finals, the Parker Pen Shield European Cup Final 2002 (losing to French team Castres Olympique) & the Welsh Cup Final in 2004 (losing to Neath RFC).
In history, an interesting episode during World War II saw German aircraft bombing Virginia Park, as they believed it was being used as an airfield!
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Competitions Celtic League | Celtic Cup | Welsh Premier Division | Welsh Cup | Heineken Cup | European Challenge Cup | European Shield | ||
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Regions Cardiff Blues | Llanelli Scarlets | Newport Gwent Dragons | Ospreys | ||
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Clubs Aberavon | Abertillery | Bedwas | Bridgend Ravens | Caerphilly | Carmarthen | Cardiff | Cross Keys | Ebbw Vale | Glamorgan Wanderers | Llandovery | Llanelli | Llanharan | Neath | Newbridge | Newport | Pontypool | Pontypridd | Swansea Sharks | Treorchy Rhondda Zebras | ||
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