Celtic Warriors
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| Founded | 2003 (disbanded in 2004) |
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| Location |
Bridgend, Wales Pontypridd, Wales |
| Ground(s) |
Brewery Field Sardis Road (Capacity: 12,000 7,861) |
| Chairman | Leighton Samuel |
| Coach(es) |
 Lynn Howells
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| Captain(s) |
 Richard Bryan
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| League(s) | Celtic League |
| 2003–04 | 4th |
The Celtic Warriors (Welsh: Y Rhyfelwyr Celtaidd) were a regional rugby union team from Wales, who played in the Celtic League and Heineken Cup between 2003 and 2004 following a merger between Welsh clubs Pontypridd RFC and Bridgend RFC at the inception of Regional Rugby in Wales. The two clubs still compete at a semi-professional level.
The Warriors were one of the five original regions of the Welsh Regional Rugby Era. The club came into being in the summer of 2003 when the Welsh Rugby Union controversially elected to reduce the current top tier of Welsh Professional Rugby from nine clubs into five regions, attempting to mirror the successful formats in Ireland and the Southern Hemisphere countries of South Africa, Australia and New Zealand.
Officially representing the mid-Glamorgan area, including Merthyr Tydfil, Aberdare, Pontypridd, Caerphilly, Maesteg and Bridgend, and south Powys, the Celtic Warriors was in practice a combination of the Pontypridd RFC and Bridgend RFC Welsh Premier League Clubs. With Bridgend RFC having clinched the 2002/2003 Welsh Premier League title and Pontypridd RFC being consistently strong in those competitions, the Warriors were considered one of the strongest line-ups of the five Welsh regions.
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