Ulster Schools Rugby Season Kicks Off as Danske Bank Celebrates 20 Years of Partnership
Photo Credit: Ulster Rugby The 2024/25 Danske Bank Ulster Schools Rugby competitions were officially launched this week, marking a significant milestone – the 20th year of Danske Bank’s backing of Ulster Rugby. The event saw past and present captains from last season’s champions gather to celebrate the occasion. The reigning Boys’ Ulster Schools’ Cup champions, […]
Future Stars: Top 23 Under 23 | The Best U23 Players in the World
With the schools rugby season in the northern hemisphere just days away from kick off and the southern hemisphere now winding down it presents a chance to reflect on those that have progressed through to international rugby in recent years. Following July’s Internationals Tours and with the Rugby Championship in full flow, young stars have […]
Elite Pro Rugby Players and their Schools
Which schools have produced the most elite level rugby players? As we did in 2021 and will continue to do every 2 years we here at NextGenXV have compiled a comprehensive list of all pro players from the major rugby competitions across the globe and sought out which schools they have attended. We looked at […]
URC Under 23 Team of the Tournament
With the URC group stages behind us we thought we would take a look at the Next Generation of players who have come through this season. This was no easy task with plenty of high quality players from across the league. In order to qualify a player must have been born after 1 January 1999. […]
U18 Six Nations Festival: Men’s Squads Confirmed ahead of Saturday’s Kick Off
The U18 Six Nations Men’s and Women’s begin this weekend, and the 26-player squads for all six men’s teams have been announced. The remaining women’s squads will likely soon be announced too, at which point we will preview that competition, the first of its kind, but for now we focus on the first men’s U18 […]
15 Under 20 Rugby Players to Watch in 2022
As we do every year we kick off by naming 100 Under 20 internationals to watch, from that list we select a XV to watch and finally from this list we will name our number 1 global prospect for the 2022 season. Herewith is NextGenXV’s 15 to watch in 2022: 15) Davit Niniashvili (Georgia) Niniashvili […]
URC Squads and their Schools
With the United Rugby Championship just around the corner we here at NextGenXV went through the various squad lists and as always looked at which schools the various players attended. As the Springboks are currently on tour a number of high profile players were missing from the current touring parties, we however did include them […]
