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Exeter Rugby Club has been known as the Exeter Chiefs since 1999, but the team’s history dates all the way back to 1871.
It only took nine years for Exeter Rugby Club to win their first title, as the team clinched the Devon Cup in 1890. Ever since, the club has been a trailblazer. In 1905, Exeter Rugby Club hosted the first match played by the New Zealand national team on English soil. The match is actually one of the most iconic in rugby union history, because this was the game when New Zealand were first referred to as the ‘All Blacks’.
Read on to discover even more about Exeter Chiefs rugby. On this page, you’ll find all the latest Exeter Chiefs news and you’ll even be able to see all of the upcoming Exeter Chiefs fixtures and most recent results.
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Exeter Rugby Club has been known as the Exeter Chiefs since 1999, but the team’s history dates all the way back to 1871.
It only took nine years for Exeter Rugby Club to win their first title, as the team clinched the Devon Cup in 1890. Ever since, the club has been a trailblazer. In 1905, Exeter Rugby Club hosted the first match played by the New Zealand national team on English soil. The match is actually one of the most iconic in rugby union history, because this was the game when New Zealand were first referred to as the ‘All Blacks’.
Read on to discover even more about Exeter Chiefs rugby. On this page, you’ll find all the latest Exeter Chiefs news and you’ll even be able to see all of the upcoming Exeter Chiefs fixtures and most recent results.
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Exeter Chiefs Rugby History
During the professional era of rugby union Exeter Rugby Club have been highly successful. The side won the National League 2 South in 1996 and National League 1 in 1997. Following a rebrand to the Exeter Chiefs in 1999, the team has won the RFU Championship once in 2010 and the Premiership in 2017 and 2020. This means that the Exeter Chiefs are the only rugby union side to win all of the top four tiers of English rugby. In addition, the side has also won the Anglo-Welsh Cup twice (most recently in 2018), and the Heineken Cup (European Rugby Champions Cup) once, in 2020.
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Aidon Davis Flanker 7 
Alec Hepburn Prop 
Alfie Bell Lock 4 Ben Grubb Blindside Flanker 
Billy Keast Prop 
Charlie Bell Lock 4 
Christ Tshiunza Lock 
Dafydd Jenkins Lock 5 
Ehren Painter Prop 
Elliot Young Hooker 
Eoin O'Connor Lock 4 
Ethan Roots Flanker 6 Finlay Richardson Loose Head Prop 
Finn Worley-Brady Blindside Flanker Greg Fisilau Blindside flanker Harry Hocking Hooker 
Jack Dunne Lock 
Jack Innard Hooker 
Jack Yeandle Hooker 
Jacques Vermeulen Flanker 7 
Joe Bailey Lock 4 
Jonny Gray Lock 
Josh Iosefa-Scott Prop 
Junior Kpoku Lock 4 
Kane James Blindside Flanker 
Louie Gulley Hooker 
Marcus Street Prop 
Matt Postlethwaite Lock 
Nika Abuladze Loosehead Prop 
Oscar Beckerleg Lock 4 
Richard Capstick Flanker 6 
Scott Sio Prop 
Sol Moody Hooker Backs
Arthur Relton Fullback Ben Hammersley Fullback 
Campbell Ridl Inside Centre Charlie McCaig Inside Centre Chester Ribbons Inside centre 
Cory Teague Lock 
Dan Frost Fullback 
Dan John Outside centre 
Danny Southworth Frankie Nowell Left Wing 
Harvey Skinner Fly half 
Henry Slade Centre 
Iestyn Harris Fullback 
Immanuel Feyi-Waboso Fullback Iwan Jenkins Fly Half 
Jake Morris 
Jeremy Tuima Inside Centre 
Joe Hawkins Inside centre 
Joe Snow Scrum half 
Josh Hodge 
Keita Ando Fullback Kian Gentry Inside Centre 
Kofi Barton-Byfield Fullback 
Lewis Pearson 
Louie Sinclair Scrum Half 
Lucas Dorrell Fullback 
Matt Johnson 
Max Norey 
Niall Armstrong Scrum Half 
Nick Alisson Fullback 
Oli Burrows Hooker 
Ollie Devoto Centre 
Olly Woodburn Wing 
Orson James Scrum Half 
Patrick Schickerling 
Rory O'Loughlin Centre 13 
Ross Vintcent Fullback 
Rusiate Tuima Flanker 
Sam Maunder Scrum half 
Stu Townsend Scrum half 
Toby Clinch Inside Centre Tom Cairns Scrum Half 
Tom Hendrickson Centre 
Tom Wyatt Will Becconsall Scrum Half 
Will Haydon-Wood Fullback 
Will Rigg Inside Centre 
Zack Wimbush Inside Centre Exeter Chiefs Rugby History
Due to the team’s recent success, the Exeter Chiefs rugby team features a number of established international players, including representatives of all the Home Nations (England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales). The team’s top players include England centre Henry Slade, Wales wing Alex Cuthbert and Scotland fullback Stuart Hogg.
Today, the Exeter Chiefs are an established force in both English and European rugby. With two Premiership titles and three runners-up finishes in the five years between 2015-16 and 2019-20, the Exeter Chiefs rugby team will be looking to assert their dominance even further in the coming years.
