Jacob Stockdale

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Jacob Stockdale
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Stockdale representing Ulster
Full nameJacob Alexander Stockdale
Date of birth (1996-04-03) 3 April 1996 (age 28)
Place of birth Newtownstewart, Northern Ireland
Height1.91 m (6 ft 3 in)
Weight102 kg (225 lb; 16 st 1 lb)
School Wallace High School
Rugby union career
Position(s) Wing, Centre, Fullback
Current team Ulster
Senior career
YearsTeamApps(Points)
2016– Ulster 125 (235)
Correct as of 18 October 2024
International career
YearsTeamApps(Points)
2015–2016 Ireland U20 13 (50)
2017– Ireland 37 (95)
2022 Ireland Wolfhounds 1 (0)
Correct as of 26 August 2023

Jacob Alexander Stockdale (born 3 April 1996) is a professional rugby union player who plays as a wing for United Rugby Championship club Ulster and the Ireland national team. [1] [2]

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He holds the record for tries scored in a single Six Nations Championship, scoring seven tries for Ireland in the 2018 tournament, for which he was also named Player of the Championship. He won the Nevin Spence Irish Young Player of the Year award in 2018, and was nominated for EPCR European Player of the Year in 2019.

Early life

He was born in Newtownstewart in County Tyrone before his family settled in Lurgan. [3] He grew up idolising Tommy Bowe and Jonah Lomu. [4] He attended Wallace High School in Lisburn, where he played in the back row before moving to centre. He played for the school's first team in his final year, [5] was selected for Ireland at Schools and under-18 level, [4] and was named Ulster Schools Player of the Year in the 2014 Ulster Rugby Awards. [6]

Stockdale is a Christian (his father is a Presbyterian minister), and prays before each game. [7] [8]

Professional career

Stockdale joined the Ulster academy ahead of the 2014–15 season, [9] while studying criminology at Ulster University at Jordanstown. He made his senior debut for Ulster against Benetton in January 2016, [4] making six appearances, including five starts, in the 2015–16 season, [1] and was selected for Ireland under-20s in the 2016 under-20 Six Nations and the 2016 under-20 World Championship. [4] In the 2016–17 season he made 20 appearances including eight starts, and scored nine tries. [1] At the end of the season he was named Ulster's Young Player of the Year. [10] He was named in the Ireland squad for the 2017 Summer Tour, [11] and made his international debut against the United States. [12]

In 2017–18 he made 19 appearances for Ulster, including 18 starts, and scored ten tries. [1] He played his first home game for Ireland in November 2017, against South Africa where he scored a try. [13] Two weeks later in the same November series he won "man of the match" after scoring two tries in Ireland's 28–19 victory over Argentina. [14] He was named Player of the Championship in the 2018 Six Nations Championship, [15] after setting a tournament record for most tries scored with seven as Ireland won the Grand Slam. [16] He was awarded the Nevin Spence Young Player of the Year award by Rugby Players Ireland in May 2018, [17] and won BBC Northern Ireland Sports Personality of the Year in December 2018. [18]

In 2018–19 he made twelve appearances for Ulster, including eleven starts, and scored seven tries. [1] He was nominated for EPCR European Player of the Year in 2019. [19] For Ireland, he won eleven caps, including five in the 2019 Six Nations Championship and four at the 2019 Rugby World Cup, and scored three tries, [2] including one in Ireland's first ever victory against the All Blacks on Irish soil, [20]

In 2019–20 he made 13 appearances, all starts, for Ulster, and scored two tries. [1] For Ireland, he won five caps in the 2020 Six Nations Championship. [2] In 2020-21 he made 14 appearances, all starts, for Ulster, and scored three tries. [1] For Ireland, he won five caps three in the 2020 Autumn Nations Cup, one in the 2021 Six Nations Championship, and one against Japan in July 2021. [2] In 2021–22, he injured his ankle in Ulster's opening United Rugby Championship match against Glasgow Warriors, which kept him out for the rest of the season, eventually requiring surgery in January 2022. [21] He made his 100th appearance for Ulster at the end of the 2022–23 season. [22] He was called up to Ireland's preliminary 42-man squad ahead of the 2023 Rugby World Cup, [23] and made his first international start since 2021 against Italy on 5 August 2023. [24] He was called up to the Ireland squad for their two-match tour of South Africa in July 2024. [25]

Career statistics

List of international tries

NumberPositionPointsTriesResultOppositionVenueDateRef.
1 Wing 51Won United States Red Bull Arena 10 June 2017 [26]
2 Wing 51Won South Africa Aviva Stadium 11 November 2017 [27]
3–4 Wing 102Won Argentina Aviva Stadium 25 November 2017 [28]
5–6 Wing 102Won Italy Aviva Stadium 10 February 2018 [29]
7–8 Wing 102Won Wales Aviva Stadium 24 February 2018 [30]
9–10 Wing 102Won Scotland Aviva Stadium 10 March 2018 [31]
11 Wing 51Won England Twickenham Stadium 17 March 2018 [32]
12 Wing 51Won New Zealand Aviva Stadium 17 November 2018 [33]
13 Wing 51Won Scotland Murrayfield 9 February 2019 [34]
14 Wing 51Won Italy Rome 24 February 2019 [35]
15–16 Wing 102Won Wales Millennium Stadium 31 August 2019 [36]
17 Fullback 51Lost France Aviva Stadium 31 October 2020 [37]
18 Wing 51Lost England Twickenham Stadium 21 November 2020 [38]
19 Wing 51Won Japan Aviva Stadium 3 July 2021 [39]

as of 3 July 2021 [40]

Honours

Ireland
Individual

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