Dragons RFC
| Founded | 2003 | |||
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| Location | Newport, Wales | |||
| Ground(s) | Rodney Parade (Capacity: 8,700) | |||
| Chairman | David Wright | |||
| Coach(es) | Filo Tiatia | |||
| Captain(s) | Ben Carter | |||
| Most caps | Lewis Evans (236) | |||
| Top scorer | Jason Tovey (974) | |||
| Most tries | Aled Brew (43) | |||
| League(s) | United Rugby Championship | |||
| 2023–24 | 15th (Welsh Shield: 4th) | |||
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| Official website | ||||
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Dragons RFC (Welsh: Clwb Rygbi Dreigiau) are one of the four professional rugby union regional teams in Wales. They play in the United Rugby Championship and the European Rugby Champions Cup/European Rugby Challenge Cup. They play their home games at Rodney Parade, Newport, which was the home of Newport RFC from 1877 to 2017, and is shared with Newport County AFC, the city's English Football League team.
The Dragons were formed in 2003 as a result of the introduction of regional rugby union teams in Wales, and represent a region covers an area of southeast representing an arena that covers an area of southeast Wales including Blaenau Gwent, Caerphilly, Monmouthshire, Newport and Torfaen, with a total population approaching 600,000. They are affiliated with a number of semi-professional and amateur clubs throughout the area, including Pontypool RFC, Caerphilly RFC, Cross Keys RFC, Ebbw Vale RFC and Newport RFC.
The team has been owned by Dragons RFC Ltd since 2023, having been solely owned by the Welsh Rugby Union from 2017 to 2023 and jointly owned by the WRU and Newport RFC between 2004 and 2017.
The Dragons started life with a third-place finish in the 2003–04 Celtic League, and finished fourth the next season; however, the team finished in the bottom three in each of the next four seasons.They reached the semi-finals of the European Challenge Cup on three occasions, in 2007,2015 and 2016. In 2011, they reached the semi-finals of the Anglo-Welsh Cup, losing to Gloucester. They are yet to make the knock-out stage of the European Rugby Champions Cup.