Shaun Edwards

For the Australian footballer, see Shaun Edwards (Australian footballer).

Shaun Edwards
OBE
Personal information
Full nameShaun Edwards
Born (1966-10-17) 17 October 1966 (age 58)
Wigan, Lancashire, England
Playing information
Height5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)
Weight11 st 10 lb (74 kg)
PositionFullback, Stand-off, Scrum-half
Club
Years Team Pld T G FG P
1983–97 Wigan 466 274 23 4 1146
1989 Balmain Tigers 12 1 0 0 4
1997 London Broncos 24 13 0 0 52
1998 Bradford Bulls 12 5 0 0 20
1999–00 London Broncos 28 10 1 0 42
Total 542 303 24 4 1264
Representative
Years Team Pld T G FG P
1985–94 Great Britain 36 15 0 0 60
1985–91 Lancashire 3+1 2 0 0 8
1995–96 England 3 1 0 0 4
1998 Ireland 1 2 0 0 8
Coaching information
Club
Years Team Gms W D L W%
2001–11 London Wasps
Representative
Years Team Gms W D L W%
2008–19 Wales (defence)
2020– France (defence)

Shaun Edwards, OBE (born 17 October 1966) is an English rugby union coach and former rugby league player, who is the defence coach for the France national team. A scrum-half or stand-off, Edwards is the most decorated player in rugby league history, with 37 winner's medals. In 2015 he was the 25th person inducted into the Rugby League Hall of Fame.[6]

At schoolboy level, he captained England in both rugby league and rugby union. He played for Wigan in the Championship and Super League between 1983 and 1997, and also had spells with Balmain Tigers, London Broncos (twice) and Bradford Bulls. Playing for Wigan, Edwards won a record eight championships, and a record nine Challenge Cups. In total he played in eleven Challenge Cup finals, also a record.[7] He was voted Man of Steel in 1990 and is an inductee of the Wigan Hall of Fame.

Edwards played 36 times for Great Britain, as well as for England in 1995 and 1996 and Ireland in 1998. In all, he appeared in three Rugby League World Cups.[1]

After retiring from playing he joined London Wasps in rugby union as assistant coach in 2001, and was head coach from 2005 to 2011. During his time at the club they won two Heineken Cups, four Premiership titles, an Anglo-Welsh trophy and the European Challenge Cup.

In 2008 he became Wales' defence coach, and has won four Six Nations championships, including three Grand Slams. He was also defence coach for the British & Irish Lions on their tour of South Africa in 2009. He joined France in 2020 and won the Grand Slam in 2022.

  1. ^ a b "Statistics at rugbyleagueproject.org". rugbyleagueproject.org. 31 December 2017. Retrieved 1 January 2018.
  2. ^ "England Statistics at englandrl.co.uk". englandrl.co.uk. 31 December 2017. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 1 January 2018.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  3. ^ "Great Britain Statistics at englandrl.co.uk". englandrl.co.uk. 31 December 2017. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 1 January 2018.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  4. ^ "Statistics at wiganwarriorsfans.com". wiganwarriorsfans.com. 31 December 2017. Retrieved 1 January 2018.
  5. ^ "Statistics at nrlstats.com (archived by web.archive.org)". nrlstats.com. 31 December 2017. Archived from the original on 9 August 2008. Retrieved 1 January 2018.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  6. ^ "Shaun Edwards inducted into Rugby League Hall of Fame". Sky Sports. Retrieved 5 June 2017.
  7. ^ Stanford, Peter (2006). Why I am still a Catholic: essays in faith and perseverance. Continuum International Publishing Group. p. 29. ISBN 9780826491459.