Swansea Rugby Football Club is a Welsh rugby union team which plays in the Welsh Premier Division. Its home ground is St Helens Rugby and Cricket Ground in Swansea. The team is sometimes known as the All Whites because of the primary colour of the team strip. The club owns 50% of the Ospreys professional rugby side.

History
The club was founded in 1874 and, in 1881 it became one of the eleven founder clubs of the Welsh Rugby Union.

In the early twentieth century Swansea RFC was an extremely successful club. For four consecutive seasons Swansea were the unofficial Welsh champions from the 1898/99 season through to 1901/02, coinciding with the heydays of Swansea's first star player Billy Bancroft. Under the captaincy of Frank Gordon the team would later go on a 22 month unbeaten run, from December 1903 through to October 1905. During this period Swansea appeared to be under-represented at international level. Gordon himself went uncapped throughout his entire career, and apart from Billy Trew, Dick Jones and Dicky Owen, the only other internationals in the senior team were forward Sid Bevan (1 cap), wing Jowett (1 cap) and outside-half Phil Hopkins (4 caps). Trew (29 caps) was an outstanding centre who was accepted as one of the most important players in the evolutuion of Welsh rugby, while Dicky Owen (35 caps), although only 5 foot 4 inches tall, was an incredible tactician.

Under some protest, Swansea RFC and Neath RFC jointly formed the Neath-Swansea Ospreys in 2003, both clubs remain in existence and play in the semi-professional Welsh Premiership.

Achievements
Swansea RFC defeated New Zealand 11-3 on Saturday 28th September 1935, becoming the first ever club side to beat the All Blacks.

In November 1992, Swansea RFC defeated world champions Australia 21-6, when Australia played their first match of their Welsh Tour.

Welsh Premier Division champions in:

• 1991/1992
• 1993/1994
• 1997/1998
• 2000/2001

Welsh Cup champions in:

• 1977/1978
• 1994/1995
• 1998/1999

Notable former players

• William Richard Arnold
• Dewi Bebb
• David Blyth
• Colin Charvis
• Claude Davey
• Mervyn Davies
• Scott Gibbs
• Garin Jenkins
• Ivor Jones
• Robert Jones
• Robin McBryde
• Kevin Morgan
• Paul Moriarty
• Richard Moriarty
• Darren Morris
• Clive Rowlands
• Mike Ruddock
• Haydn Tanner
• Arwel Thomas
• Clem Thomas
• Watcyn Thomas

 Website: http://www.swansearfc.co.uk/
 Swansea RFC
       St Helen's
       Bryn Road
       Swansea
       SA2 0AR
 Tel: 01792 424242

Scott Gibbs try for Swansea vs Australia 1992