Leinster Rugby

Leinster Rugby is one of the four professional rugby union clubs in Ireland.

In the amateur era Leinster was a representative team, consisting of players selected by the IRFU Leinster Branch from teams in the traditional province of Leinster and competing in the IRFU Interprovincial Championship with Connacht, Ulster and Munster, winning it 22 times (10 times shared) between 1949 and 2002.

Since the advent of professionalism in 1995, Leinster and the other Irish provincial sides became professional clubs, competing in the Heineken Champions Cup (1995-present), the Celtic League (2001-2011), the Celtic Cup (2003-2005), the Pro12 (2011-2017), the Pro14 (2017-2021) and now the United Rugby Championship (2021-). Leinster have won the Heineken Cup four times, 2009, 2011, 2012 and 2018, as well as the European Rugby Challenge Cup once in 2013, the Celtic League in 2002 and 2008, the Pro12 in 2013 and 2014, and the Pro14 in 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021.

Their home ground is the RDS Arena in Dublin, which has a capacity of 18,500.

2021-22 coaching team

 * Leo Cullen, head coach
 * Felipe Contepomi, assistant coach
 * Emmet Farrell, kicking coach & head analyst

Professional era
1995-1996 | 1996-1997 | 1997-1998 | 1998-1999 | 1999-2000 | 2000-2001 | 2001-2002 | 2002-2003 | 2003-2004 | 2004-2005 | 2005-2006 | 2006-2007 | 2007-2008 | 2009-2010 | 2011-2012 | 2012-2013 | 2013-2014 | 2014-2015 | 2015-2016 | 2016-2017 | 2017-2018 | 2018-2019 | 2019-2020 | 2020-2021 | 2021-2022

Props

 * Vakh Abdaladze
 * Michael Ala'alatoa
 * Ed Byrne
 * Tom Clarkson
 * Peter Dooley
 * Tadhg Furlong
 * Cian Healy
 * Michael Milne
 * Andrew Porter

Hookers

 * Seán Cronin
 * Rónan Kelleher
 * Dan Sheehan
 * James Tracy

Locks

 * Ryan Baird
 * Jack Dunne
 * Ross Molony
 * James Ryan
 * Devin Toner

Back row

 * Jack Conan
 * Will Connors
 * Max Deegan
 * Caelan Doris
 * Dan Leavy
 * Josh Murphy
 * Scott Penny
 * Rhys Ruddock
 * Josh van der Flier

Scrum-halves

 * Jamison Gibson-Park
 * Nick McCarthy
 * Luke McGrath

Fly-halves

 * Harry Byrne
 * Ross Byrne
 * Jonathan Sexton

Centres

 * Ciarán Frawley
 * David Hawkshaw
 * Robbie Henshaw
 * Conor O'Brien
 * Tommy O'Brien
 * Rory O'Loughlin
 * Garry Ringrose

Back three

 * Adam Byrne
 * Dave Kearney
 * Hugo Keenan
 * Jordan Larmour
 * James Lowe
 * Jimmy O'Brien

2021-22 Academy

 * Lee Barron (hooker)
 * Jack Boyle (prop)
 * Niall Comerford (back three)
 * Chris Cosgrave (back three)
 * Brian Deeny (lock)
 * Cormac Foley (scrum-half)
 * Marcus Hanan (prop)
 * Mark Hernan (back row)
 * Temi Lasisi (prop)
 * Joe McCarthy (lock)
 * John McKee (hooker)
 * Martin Moloney (back row)
 * Ben Murphy (scrum-half)
 * Seán O'Brien (back row)
 * Max O'Reilly (centre)
 * Jamie Osborne (centre)
 * Rob Russell (back three)
 * Charlie Ryan (lock)
 * Andrew Smith (back three)
 * Alex Soroka (back row)
 * Liam Turner (centre)

Links

 * Official website