Abercarn RFC is a feeder club for the Newport Gwent Dragons.

[3] The event is remembered by the club in their team badge, with a plane propeller sitting in its centre.

Abercarn currently plays at the Walfare Ground, at the rear of Cwmcarn High School.

For the start of the 2009/2010 season, Abercarn RFC has reintroduced a development team known as the 'Abercarn Devils' who compete in the Worthington Gwent 2nd XV Division.

Former outside half Ben Farley made the locally hugely controversial move to rivals Risca RFC in the summer of 2010, the first time this has happened since 1937.