Rugby union in Wales is the national sport and is considered a large part of national culture. The Welsh Rugby Union (WRU) being formed in 1881. [2]

The national team play at the WRU-owned Principality Stadium, and compete in the Six Nations Championship, as well as every Rugby World Cup. Wales are ranked as a tier-1 nation by World Rugby (WR). Wales also competes as one of the 15 "core teams" in the annual World Rugby Sevens Series, and won the 2009 Rugby World Cup Sevens.

The main domestic competition in the Wales is the Pro14 (historically the Celtic League), in which Wales have four sides in the competition, which is also contested by Irish and Scottish clubs and from 2010-11. Top-level Welsh teams also compete in the Europe-wide European Rugby Champions Cup and European Rugby Challenge Cup and alongside the teams of England's Premiership in the Anglo-Welsh Cup.

Beneath the Pro14, club rugby is represented by over 200 WRU affiliated clubs who play in the Welsh Premier Division and the lower Welsh Divisional leagues. Historically the four major Welsh national teams have been Cardiff, Newport, Swansea and Llanelli, although other clubs that have fought for prominence and provided national sporting heroes during the last 120 years include Bridgend, Neath, Pontypool, Pontypridd , and England exiles London Welsh. Four Welsh teams compete in the British and Irish Cup, a competition for the semi-professional and developmental sides from Great Britain and Ireland. They are usually the Premier Division clubs of each region.


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