2023–24 Scottish Rugby Academy season

Scottish Rugby Academy
2023 / 2024

The Scottish Rugby Academy provides Scotland's up and coming rugby stars a dedicated focused routeway for development into the professional game. Entry is restricted to Scottish qualified students and both male and female entrants are accepted into 4 regional academies. The 2023–24 season sees the ninth year of the academy, now sponsored by Fosroc.[1]

Season overview

This was the ninth year of the Scottish Rugby Academy.

Regional Academies

The Scottish Rugby Academy runs four regional academies in Scotland:- Glasgow and the West, Borders and East Lothian, Edinburgh and Caledonia. These roughly correspond to the traditional districts of Glasgow District, South, Edinburgh District and North and Midlands.[2]

Stages

Players are selected in three stages:-

Supported stages

  • Stage 1 - Regionally selected and regionally supported players
  • Stage 2 - Nationally selected and regionally supported players

Contracted stage

  • Stage 3 - Nationally selected and regionally supported players assigned to a professional team.

Academy Players

Stage 3 players

Stage 3 players are assigned to a professional team. Nominally, for the men, Glasgow Warriors receive the Stage 3 players of Glasgow and the West and Caledonia regions, while Edinburgh Rugby receive the Stage 3 players of the Edinburgh and Borders and East Lothian regions. The women are integrated into the Scotland women's national rugby sevens team and the Scotland women's national rugby union team.

The Stage 3 players were assigned directly to Glasgow Warriors and Edinburgh Rugby.[3]

However they were also eligible for the Super 6 FOSROC Futures XV side when not in use by the United Rugby Championship sides.[4][5][6]

Glasgow Warriors

Note: Flags indicate national union under World Rugby eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-World Rugby nationality.

Player Position Union
Tom Banatvala Prop Scotland
Callum Norrie Prop Scotland
Callum Smyth Prop Scotland
Ryan Burke Lock Scotland
Harris McLeod Lock Scotland
Ruaraidh Hart Flanker Scotland
Jonny Morris Flanker Scotland
Player Position Union
Matthew Urwin Fly-half Scotland
Ben Salmon Centre Scotland
Johnny Ventisei Centre Scotland
Kerr Yule Centre Scotland
Amena Caqusau Wing Scotland
Logan Jarvie Wing Scotland
Kerr Johnston Wing Scotland
Fergus Watson Wing Scotland

Edinburgh

Note: Flags indicate national union under World Rugby eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-World Rugby nationality.

Player Position Union
Jerry Blyth-Lafferty Hooker Scotland
Harri Morris Hooker Scotland
Robbie Deans Prop Scotland
Ollie Blyth-Lafferty Prop Scotland
Euan McVie Lock Scotland
Tom Currie Flanker Scotland
Freddy Douglas Flanker Scotland
Liam McConnell Flanker Scotland
Ollie Duncan Number 8 Scotland
Player Position Union
Finlay Burgess Scrum-half Scotland
Hector Patterson Scrum-half Scotland
Isaac Coates Fly-half Scotland
Jack Hocking Centre Scotland
Finn Douglas Wing Scotland
Jack Brown Fullback Scotland

Graduates of this year

Players who have signed professional contracts with clubs:

None as yet.

References

  1. ^ "Fosroc Scottish Rugby Academy roster announced". Scottish Rugby Union. Archived from the original on 2018-07-30. Retrieved 2023-06-27.
  2. ^ "BT Sport Scottish Rugby Academy - Scottish Rugby Union". Archived from the original on 2016-10-28. Retrieved 2019-11-17.
  3. ^ "FOSROC Scottish Rugby Academy to align with Scotland's professional teams". Scottish Rugby Union. 30 June 2020.
  4. ^ "2021-2022 Contracted Academy Players Confirmed". Scottish Rugby Union. 21 July 2021. Retrieved 2021-07-21.
  5. ^ "2023/2024 Contracted Academy Players Confirmed". 27 June 2023.
  6. ^ "2023/24 Pro-Academy intake confirmed". 26 July 2023.