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Jake Ball

Wales
Wales

Age

35

Position

Lock

Height

200cm

Weight

122kg

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Jake Ball Stats

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Jake Ball Performance Analysis

Investec Champions Cup 2025/2026

Jake Ball featured in 2 matches during the 2025/2026 Investec Champions Cup, representing Scarlets. Results included 0 wins and 2 losses.

Jake Ball represented Scarlets in the 2025/2026 Investec Champions Cup season, who finished 6th in the regular season table.

Jake Ball played 214 minutes across the Investec Champions Cup 2025/2026. In attack he made 29m with ball in hand, beating 2 defenders and scoring 0 tries. Defensively he completed 22 tackles at a rate of 11 per game.

In the Investec Champions Cup 2025/2026, Jake Ball completed 9 passes at an accuracy of 100%, contributing 0 try assists and making 27 touches.

His tackle completion rate of 92% was among the highest of any Lock's in the Investec Champions Cup.

United Rugby Championship 2025/2026

Jake Ball featured in 7 matches during the 2025/2026 United Rugby Championship, representing Scarlets. Results included 1 win and 6 losses.

Jake Ball represented Scarlets in the 2025/2026 United Rugby Championship, who finished 14th in the regular season table.

Jake Ball played 480 minutes across the United Rugby Championship 2025/2026. In attack he made 72m with ball in hand, beating 1 defenders and scoring 0 tries. Defensively he completed 67 tackles at a rate of 9.57 per game.

In the United Rugby Championship 2025/2026, Jake Ball completed 18 passes at an accuracy of 90%, contributing 0 try assists and making 73 touches.

Jake Ball Bio

Jake Ball is a formidable lock who currently represents Green Rockets Tokatsu in Japan. Throughout his distinguished career, he also represented Scarlets more than 125 times and was capped 50 times by Wales.

Born 21 June 1991, Jake Ball moved to Australia with his parents at the age of 17. While playing rugby in the country, he was scouted by Scarlets, who signed him to a three-year deal. Later in the same year, he made his professional debut for the team in the PRO12 (now the United Rugby Championship).

Following this, Jake Ball went on to make more than 125 appearances for Scarlets between 2012 and 2021. During this time, he helped the side capture the PRO12 title in 2016-17.

However, at the close of 2020, Jake Ball announced that he was leaving Scarlets at the conclusion of the 2020-21 season. At this point, he returned to Australia to reunite with his family. Since, he's signed for Green Rockets Tokatsu in Japan.

Although he's enjoyed a distinguished domestic career, Jake Ball has saved some of his finest performances for Wales. During his international career (which also ended when he moved to Australia), he was capped 50 times by his country and helped guide the Welsh national team to a fourth-placed finish at the 2019 edition of the Rugby World Cup.

Still relatively young and with several years of elite rugby left in him, we can't wait to see what else Jake Ball can achieve in the game.

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