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Cardiff Demons

Welsh rugby league football club

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 16, 2026
Entity authorityQ5038403
Source-derived summary

The Cardiff Demons RLFC name has been used multiple times over the years. Firstly for a now-defunct men's rugby league side, and subsequently for a women's rugby league side who began in 2021.

The men's side played out of St. Peters RFC in the east of Cardiff, Wales and played in the Welsh Premier of the Rugby League Conference.

The women's team competed in the RFL Women's Super League South from its inaugural season in June 2021. In 2024 this was replaced by the Southern Championship. In 2025, Cardiff transferred to the Northern Championship which was renamed as the National Championship the following season.

History

Men's team: 1997–2014

Cardiff Demons were formed in 1997. In 2001, they joined the Central South Division of the Rugby League Conference. Playing at St.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Cardiff Demons” as welsh rugby league football club. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2021, 2024, 2025, 1997—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1997. The account is most persuasive where Cardiff, Demons and Welsh can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as welsh rugby league football club. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 16, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5038403. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2021, 2024, 2025 and 1997.

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This entry incorporates text from Cardiff Demons” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.