Leicester Tigers are a professional rugby union club based in Leicester,England. They play in Premiership Rugby,England's top division of rugby.
Christopher John Ashton is a retired English rugby union and former rugby league footballer,and one of the few players who have represented England in both rugby codes. Ashton primarily played wing and secondarily played fullback.
Tom Varndell is an English rugby union player who plays on the wing as a player-coach for Bury St Edmunds. Varndell also has caps for England and England Sevens,as well as having represented other Premiership Rugby sides Bristol Bears and Wasps. He is the second highest try scorer in Premiership Rugby after Chris Ashton.
The 2005–06 Guinness Premiership was the 19th season of the top flight of the English domestic rugby union competitions,played between September 2005 and May 2006. The final was contested by the Sale Sharks and the Leicester Tigers at Twickenham. Sale Sharks won 45–20 to win the Premiership. Leeds Tykes were relegated,whilst Harlequins were promoted for the 2006-07 Guinness Premiership.
James Gopperth is a New Zealand professional rugby union player. His regular playing positions are centre and fly-half,he has played over 450 professional games in a 20-year career,scoring over 3,800 points. He has played professionally for Wellington,North Harbour,the Hurricanes &the Blues in his native New Zealand before moving to Europe in 2009 where he played for Newcastle Falcons in Premiership Rugby and Leinster in Ireland before joining Wasps in 2015 where he played 156 games over seven years. He joined Leicester Tigers in 2022 for a single season.
Tobias Gerald Albert Cecil Lieven Flood is an English rugby union coach and former player. He is currently kicking and skills coach at Newcastle Falcons in Premiership Rugby. During his playing career his position was fly half or inside centre. He played over 300 games in his club career across his three professional clubs,Newcastle Falcons,Toulouse and Leicester Tigers. He played 60 international matches for England between 2006 and 2014.
Ryan Lamb is a former rugby union player who plays at fly-half.
James William Rangi Wilson is a retired professional rugby union player from New Zealand.
Greig Tonks is a Scottish former rugby union player who played for London Irish in the position of Fullback,Centre or Fly-half. He is currently a coach at Rams.
Nemani Nadolo is a Fijian-Australian rugby union player. He currently plays for New South Wales Waratahs in Super Rugby,usually as a wing or centre,and the Fiji national team.
In 1979 an England rugby union touring team toured Japan,Fiji and Tonga. The tourists won all their seven matches,scoring 270 points and conceding only 93. Only the first international against Japan was close,with Japan leading 19–15 going into injury time –a converted try by Peter Squires allowed England to win the match.
The 2008–09 Guinness Premiership was the 22nd season of the top flight of the English domestic rugby union competitions,played between September 2008 and May 2009. Round 1 included the London Double Header at Twickenham,between the four London teams.
The 2002 Heineken Cup Final was the final match of the 2001–02 Heineken Cup,the seventh season of Europe's top club rugby union competition. The match was played on 25 May 2002 at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff;this was the third time the final had been played in Cardiff after the 1996 and 1997 finals,but the first since the opening of the Millennium Stadium,which was built on the site of the old Cardiff Arms Park for the 1999 Rugby World Cup.
Joe Ford is a rugby union coach. He has previously also been a player for Yorkshire Carnegie,in three other spells,as well as Northampton Saints,Sale Sharks and Leicester Tigers in Premiership Rugby. He has recently been appointed a coach at Doncaster Knights.
George Thomas Ford is an English professional rugby union player who plays at fly-half for Sale Sharks and England. Ford made his debut for Leicester in 2009 and between 2013–2017 played for Bath,before re-joining Leicester,until 2021 when he signed for Sale Sharks for the 2022–23 Premiership season. Ford made his England debut in 2014,was selected for the 2015 Rugby World Cup,and started the 2019 Rugby World Cup Final. He won Premiership Rugby titles in 2013 and 2022 for Leicester,and was a finalist in 2012,2015 and 2023 for Leicester,Bath and Sale respectively.
The 2016–17 Anglo-Welsh Cup was the 45th season of England's national rugby union cup competition,and the 11th to follow the Anglo-Welsh Cup format. The competition returned after a one-year hiatus due to being dropped due to the 2015 Rugby World Cup in England.
History of Leicester Tigers details the history of the rugby union club based in Leicester,England. Nicknamed the Tigers from 1885,Leicester have been a prominent club from the earliest days of organised English rugby dominating midlands rugby before the First World War;providing British Lions captains in 1930,1936,1997 and 2001;and winning 21 major titles since 1979 including a record 11 Premiership Rugby titles.
John Garin Liley is an English former rugby union player. A full back who played 230 games for Leicester Tigers from 1988 to 1997 scoring 2,518 points,the second most of all time,he also toured with England but did not play in a test match.
David St George Hazell was a rugby union player who appeared for Leicester Tigers between 1953–1956,for Bristol Rugby between 1956–64,and four times for England in 1955.
