Premiership Rugby, officially known as Gallagher Premiership Rugby, or the Gallagher Premiership for sponsorship reasons, is an English professional rugby union competition, consisting of 11 clubs, and is the top division of the English rugby union system.
Saracens Rugby Club is an English professional rugby union club based in North London, England. As of the current 2022–23 season, they compete in Premiership Rugby, the highest tier competition in English rugby, as well as the domestic Premiership Rugby Cup and the European Rugby Champions Cup.
Philip John Vickery MBE DL is a former English rugby union tighthead prop and member of the England squad. He was a member of England's World Cup winning squad in 2003, playing in all seven matches in the tournament, and is a former England captain. Vickery ended his club rugby career at London Wasps, joining the London side in 2006 after eleven years with Gloucester Rugby. Given the nickname "Raging Bull", he played in three Rugby World Cups, including as England captain in the 2007 tournament, and toured Australia and South Africa with the British & Irish Lions. Made his debut for Bolingey Barbarians Sunday 25th Sept 2022 vs Bude vets.
Stuart Richard Abbott MBE is a South African born rugby union footballer who played centre for London Wasps and England.
Andrew James Goode is a sports pundit and retired rugby union player. Goode had an 18-year professional career playing over 400 games and scoring over 4,000 points. He played professionally in England, France and South Africa featuring for Leicester Tigers, Saracens, Worcester Warriors, Wasps and Newcastle Falcons in England's Premiership Rugby, CA Brive in France's Top 14 and for Super Rugby's Sharks in South Africa. Goode represented England 17 times between 2005 and 2009 scoring 107 points.
Owen Joshua Lewsey MBE is an English former rugby union player who represented England and the British and Irish Lions. Lewsey is a former British Army Officer.
Alexander David King is a rugby union footballer who played at fly-half for ASM Clermont Auvergne and formerly Wasps. In July 2020 it was announced King would be the attack coach at Gloucester Rugby. King attended Brighton College and Bristol University but started his rugby career with Hove. In January 2023, King was announced as the Attack Coach of the Welsh Rugby Union ahead of their Six Nations campaign.
Joseph Paul Richard Worsley, is a retired English rugby union player who played flanker for Wasps and England.
Thomas Michael Dunstan Voyce is a former English rugby union player who played at wing or fullback. He previously played for England.
Paul Henry Sackey is a retired English rugby union footballer who played on the wing, most recently for Harlequins in the Aviva Premiership.
Mark van Gisbergen is a rugby union footballer who plays at fullback for Lyon and England. He is nicknamed 'Giz' or 'Gizzy'.
Thomas Rees is an ex-international rugby union footballer who played flanker for London Wasps and represented England at senior, Under-21, Under-19, Under-18 and Under-16 levels as well as sevens. He announced his retirement due to persistent injuries on 10 March 2012.
Ayoola Erinle is known for being an England international rugby union player. He was educated at The Oratory School and at King's College London, representing both his school's 1st XV and the King's College Rugby Club's 1st XV. He played professional rugby for clubs such as Wasps RFC, Leicester Tigers and Biarritz Olympique, and later worked his way through the ranks to represent England in 2009. In 2013, upon retirement, Erinle returned to education, studying Engineering Physics at Loughborough University where he achieved a First Class master's degree.
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.
Jeremy Staunton is an Irish rugby union fly-half and Fullback, having retired in 2012 while playing for English club Leicester Tigers in the top level of English rugby, the English Premiership. He has also played at every level for Ireland.
John Hart is a retired rugby union player for London Wasps in the Aviva Premiership. His position of choice is at number eight. Hart has been captain 38 times. He came through the Wasps Academy, making his senior debut in November 2002. In his time at the club, he played in two winning Premiership Finals in 2005 and 2008 and played a key role in the squads that won two Heineken Cup titles. Hart, who has made 165 appearances for the Wasps, retired in April 2012 for medical reasons.
Mark McMillan is a former rugby union player who played for Bath Rugby, London Wasps and Leeds Carnegie in the Aviva Premiership, and Glasgow Warriors in the Pro14. During his time at Wasps, he helped them win both the Heineken Cup and the English Premiership, coming off the bench in both finals. At Leeds he also won the 2004–05 Powergen Cup.
Joe Ward is a rugby union footballer who plays at hooker for Sale Sharks in the Aviva Premiership after signing from London Wasps in the Summer of 2011.
Richard Thorpe is a retired Premiership, Championship and International rugby union player, and the current Director of Rugby for Chinnor Rugby Club in Thame, Oxfordshire. Richard played as a flanker or No. 8 for London Irish, Leicester Tigers and London Welsh in Premiership Rugby, and represented Canada at the 2015 Rugby World Cup in England. Born in Beckenham, England, he qualified to play internationally for Canada through his Canadian mother. He won 8 caps in 2014 and 2015 before retiring from professional rugby at the end of the 2016 season aged 31.
Exeter Chiefs is an English professional rugby union club based in Exeter, Devon. They play in Premiership Rugby, England's top division of rugby.
