Pedro Leal (rugby union)

Pedro Leal
Date of birth (1984-04-28) 28 April 1984 (age 40)
Place of birthLisbon, Portugal
Height1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Weight75 kg (165 lb)[1]
Rugby union career
Position(s) Scrum-half / Fullback / Fly-Half
Senior career
Years Team Apps (Points)


2011–2012
2013–2014		 Direito
Brive
Nice
Lusitanos XV

10
2

(111) 5t
(3)
Correct as of 11 February 2014
International career
Years Team Apps (Points)
2005–2017 [2] Portugal 76 (265)
Correct as of 16 March 2019
National sevens team
Years Team Comps
2005–2016 Portugal 338 (1278)

Pedro Miguel da Cunha Leal (born 28 April 1984, in Lisbon) is a Portuguese international rugby player and a regular on the World Rugby Sevens World Series circuit. He plays as a fullback or a scrum-half.

He is widely considered Portugal's best player in rugby sevens, and in the 2006/07 IRB Sevens World Series he scored 20 tries from eight tournament appearances.[3] He was the top scorer at the 2008 Hannover Sevens event, with 74 points. Leal is one of only nine players to have scored more than 1,000 points in the World Rugby Sevens World Series.

Leal has 76 full caps for Portugal. He played three games at the 2007 Rugby World Cup.

  1. ^ "Federação Portuguesa de Rugby – Notícias". Fpr.pt. Archived from the original on 17 December 2009. Retrieved 6 July 2012.
  2. ^ "PEDRO LEAL Portugal". espncrum. Retrieved 8 March 2023.
  3. ^ "Player Statistics (Tries) for 2006/07 IRB Sevens series". irbsevens.com. 8 September 2007. Archived from the original on 9 December 2007. Retrieved 8 September 2007.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)