Pontypridd RLFC was a professional rugby league team based in Pontypridd, Wales, which played for one full season in the Rugby Football League, finishing 27th out of 29 teams in 1926-27, before withdrawing early in the following season.
[1] The club was formed following the hosting, at the instigation of the owners of Taff Vale Park, of a highly successful rugby league international in Pontypridd on 12 April, in which England played Wales in front of 22,000 people.
[2] The current tenants of Taff Fale Park, the Pontypridd association football club was in a perilous financial position and eventually folded at the end of the 1925/26 season.
[5] Pontypridd RLFC supplied all of the Welsh-based players utilised by both sides in Glamorgan's 18–14 victory over Monmouthshire in the non-County Championship match during the 1926–27 season at Taff Vale Park, Pontypridd on Saturday 30 April 1927, the Pontypridd RLFC players for Glamorgan were; Hellings (hooker, 1-try), Grant left-(second-row) and T. Davies (loose forward), and the Pontypridd RLFC players for Monmouthshire were; S. Fairfax (stand-off), Albert Green (left-prop) and George Oliver right-(prop).
[6] The team, however, was not successful and by the time it withdrew from professional rugby on 25 October 1927, it had won just eight matches out of the 40 played and conceded nearly 600 points compared to only 271 scored.