Topic: Cardiff

Cardiff Blues became the first Welsh side to win a European title when they beat French club Toulon 28-21 in the Challenge Cup final on Sunday. The cosmopolitan French club had dominated the first half but failed to convert massive possession and ...

South Africa named two new caps Saturday in an experimental team for a one-off Test against Wales on June 5 in Cardiff. The reigning world champions chose Gio Aplon from Super 14 finalists Western Stormers on the right wing and franchise team-mate ...

Cardiff Blues defeated hosts London Wasps 18-15 in the European Challenge Cup semi-final on Saturday to set up a final clash against Toulon. Blues will face the big-spending French side at Marseille's Stade Velodrome on May 23 after holding their nerve to ...

Scotland wing Thom Evans's progress from a second neck operation has "delighted" surgeons, team doctor James Robson said on Friday. Evans was carried off on a stretcher at the Millennium Stadium last Saturday after a sickening collision with Wales full-back Lee Byrne ...

<div><p>France prop Sylvain Marconnet was on Friday ruled out of the Six Nations match against Wales in Cardiff next weekend.</p><p>The identity of the veteran international's replacement will be announced on Sunday after this weekend's French Top 14 programme, a French team source ...

Wales scrum-half Dwayne Peel said he hoped to be back training in "a couple of weeks" after a scan revealed his groin injury was not as severe as first feared. The Sale number nine suffered the injury during Saturday's European Cup defeat ...

French side Clermont and last season's semi-finalists Cardiff stayed in the hunt for places in the last eight of the European Cup on Saturday with deserved victories. Clermont outclassed previous Pool Three leaders Ospreys 27-7 in France to put them second behind ...

Triple champions Leicester reignited their European Cup quarter-final push with a 20-15 win over Clermont on Saturday, avenging a 40-30 defeat they suffered against the French side last weekend. The Tigers led 13-9 at half-time after Anthony Allen's converted try and two ...

Former Wales and British and Irish Lions skipper Gareth Thomas, who announced on Saturday that he was gay, was unable to save his Cardiff Blues side from European Cup defeat. Thomas, 35, came off the bench in the dying moments against former ...

Stade Francais and Toulouse added to the impression that French sides do not travel well as they both went down to defeats in the latest set of European Cup matches on Saturday. Stade Francais - who have yet to reward owner Max ...