Munster Rugby

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

In the amateur era Munster was a representative team, consisting of players selected by the IRFU Munster Branch from teams in the traditional province of Munster and competing in the IRFU Interprovincial Championship with Connacht, Ulster and Leinster, winning it 22 times (7 times shared) between 1947 and 2001.

Since the advent of professionalism in 1995, Munster 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-). Munster have won the Heineken Cup twice, in 2006 and 2008, the Celtic League three times, in 2003, 2009 and 2011, and the Celtic Cup once, in 2005.

Their main home ground is Thomond Park in Limerick, which has a capacity of 25,600, although they play some homes games at Musgrave Park in Cork, which has a capacity of 8008.

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

2021-22 coaching team

 * Johann van Graan, head coach
 * Niall O'Donovan, team manager
 * Stephen Larkham, senior coach
 * JP Ferreira, defence coach
 * Graham Rountree, forwards coach
 * Ged McNamara, head of athletic performance
 * Adam Sheehan, strength and conditioning coach

Props

 * Stephen Archer
 * James French
 * Dave Kilcoyne
 * Keynan Knox
 * Jeremy Loughman
 * Liam O'Connor
 * John Ryan
 * Roman Salanoa
 * Josh Wycherley

Hookers

 * Diarmuid Barron
 * Declan Moore
 * Kevin O'Byrne
 * Niall Scannell

Locks

 * Thomas Ahern
 * Tadhg Beirne
 * Jason Jenkins
 * Jean Kleyn
 * RG Snyman
 * Fineen Wycherley

Back row

 * Chris Cloete
 * Gavin Coombes
 * Jack Daly
 * John Hodnett
 * Jack O'Donoghue
 * Peter O'Mahony
 * Jack O'Sullivan

Scrum-halves

 * Craig Casey
 * Neil Cronin
 * Conor Murray
 * Rowan Osborne

Fly-halves

 * Joey Carbery
 * Jack Crowley
 * Jake Flannery
 * Ben Healy

Centres

 * Damian de Allende
 * Chris Farrell
 * Dan Goggin
 * Alex McHenry
 * Rory Scannell

Back three

 * Andrew Conway
 * Liam Coombes
 * Shane Daly
 * Keith Earls
 * Seán French
 * Matt Gallagher
 * Mike Haley
 * Calvin Nash
 * Simon Zebo

2021-22 Academy

 * Scott Buckley (hooker)
 * Tony Butler (fly-half)
 * Patrick Campbell (back three)
 * Ethan Coughlan (scrum-half)
 * Mark Donnelly (prop)
 * Edwin Edogbo (lock)
 * Cian Hurley (lock)
 * Paddy Kelly (lock)
 * Alex Kendellen (back row)
 * Eoin O'Connor (lock)
 * Daniel Okeke (back row)
 * Paddy Patterson (scrum-half)
 * Conor Phillips (back three)
 * Jonathan Wren (back three)

Links

 * Official website