2023–24 Scottish Rugby Academy season

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]

Scottish Rugby Academy
2023 / 2024

← 2022–23 2024–25 →

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 Ryan Burke Lock   Scotland Harris McLeod Lock   Scotland Ruaridh 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 Freddie 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. . Scottish Rugby Union. Archived from the original on 2018-07-30. Retrieved 2023-06-27.
2. . 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.