Exeter Chiefs

Chiefs celebrate 20 years of Sandy Park with retro style shirt

Exeter Chiefs have turned back the clock with their new home and away kit to celebrate the first game played at Sandy Park 20 years ago.

The long-awaited kit for the 2026/27 season has been revealed today. Its retro design was inspired by the shirt worn by the players who ran out for Chiefs against Coventry in September 2006.

Designed and manufactured by VX3, the kit has been given a modern uplift, but its origins are clearly recognisable from the first jersey worn at Sandy Park, which features the light blue paneling of the 2006 shirt.

Exeter Chiefs CEO Tony...

Full story

Bishop announces Exeter Chiefs Women’s cup captains for 2026/27

Exeter Chiefs Women head coach Oli Bishop has named a captain and two vice-captains for the duration of the JAECOO Next Gen Cup.

Emily Robinson will lead the women through a second campaign while there are new vice-captains in place, centurion full-back Merryn Elworthy and Black Ferns prop Amy Rule.

Bishop said: “The three leaders we decided to pick are based on the work they have done for us in the past. They hugely represent the club on and off the pitch.

“They definitely want to grow our team and are huge in our team-first attitude. With a young group going...

Read more

Chiefs Women’s young guns sign transition contracts

Exeter Chiefs have signed up promising talent from the U23s pathway to enhance the women’s programme for the 2026/27 season.

Ten young players have been contracted to the club, including 18-year-old Izzy Firth who has only just left Exeter College.

England U18s captain centre Meghan Crilly will join also the Exeter Chiefs transition squad after two years at Loughborough College, competing in the ACE League.

Prop Lilly Plowman and lock Ellie Wood return for another year under this agreement while new for this season are scrum-half Charlotte Coyle, tighthead prop...

Read more

Oli Bishop promoted to Chiefs Women’s head coach role

Exeter Chiefs Women have promoted assistant coach Oli Bishop to the role of head coach ahead of the 2026/27 season.

Bishop joined Chiefs as women’s attack and backs coach ahead of last season. He arrived from Trailfinders Women with a wealth of experience having spent nine seasons with Wasps Women before coaching for two further seasons in London.

Bishop immediately settled in the Chiefs environment and in his first season helped to lead Chiefs to a PWR semi-final against Saracens Women.

The club’s CEO Tony Rowe CBE said: “Oli came to the club with years of...

Read more

Lander sets her sights on Exeter Chiefs

Exeter Chiefs Women will welcome Lizzie Lander to squad as she makes the move from Bath Rugby Ladies.

Signed as a lock, Lander can also play at blindside flanker and No 8, Lander will bring her confident ball carrying ability and tireless tackling prowess to the squad.

The former British Army officer, who trained at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst graduate, has been studying at the University of Bath while playing for the city’s Championship South 1 team.

She will swap the hoops of Bath for the black of Chiefs as she heads down the M5 to try her hand at...

Read more

Exeter Chiefs sign powerful lock Nkwocha

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Fri, 07/10/2026 - 10:38pm

Second row Obinna Nkwocha will join Exeter Chiefs from Worcester Warriors for the 2026/27 season.

A graduate of the Saracens Academy, the young lock spent a single season with Warriors after two years with Coventry RFC.

Known for his explosive power, the 23-year-old will add his 6ft 5ins, 118kg frame to the Chiefs boiler room with the opportunity hone his skills alongside international second-rows, Dafydd Jenkins and Andrea Zambonin.

Exeter Chiefs’ director of rugby Rob Baxter said: “We have been looking at our second-row options with Rusi Tuima moving on and...

Read more

Bundy joins Chiefs Women’s coaching team

Authored by Mary Youlden
Posted: Thu, 07/09/2026 - 12:32pm

Exeter Chiefs Women will welcome Ross Bundy as assistant coach for the 2026/27 season.

A specialist in forwards and defence, including the contact and breakdown areas, Bundy has joined Chiefs from Leicester Tigers Women.

As a former player, Bundy ran out for Racing Club Narbonne, Nottingham and Scotland U20s, before turning his attention to coaching.

The former head coach of Leicester Tigers Women began his coaching career as head coach at Rotterdam Rugby and was retained as a consultant coach after a successful first season with the Dutch team.

During...

Read more

Young Welsh prop joins Exeter Chiefs Women

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Tue, 07/07/2026 - 11:26pm

Exeter Chiefs Women have signed exciting young prop Maisie Davies from Bristol Bears.

The loosehead had moved to Bristol for the 2025/26 PWR season after an outstanding campaign for Gwalia Lightning in 2024/25 and being named MVP for Wales U20s’ Women’s Summer Series in 2024.

At just 20 years old, Davies has already racked up 17 caps for Wales and played in the Rugby World Cup last year.

Formerly a goal-kicking blindside flanker for Cardiff Metropolitan, Davies moved to the front row just months before she headed off for the Summer Series in Parma. She scored...

Read more

Black Knight Rugby Completes Exeter Chiefs Takeover

Exeter Chiefs heralded a new dawn today as the club confirmed its sale to Black Knight Rugby.

A new subsidiary of Cannae Holdings, Inc., Black Knight Rugby, has purchased 100% of the shares of Exeter Rugby Group Ltd following a vote by Exeter’s members to permit the sale of the club.

Under Black Knight, Tony Rowe CBE will continue as CEO of the club to maintain continuity.

Rowe said: “If you had to choose an investor in the world of sport, you could not choose better than Black Knight. I am absolutely over the moon.”

The deal ends Rowe’s 25-year...

Read more

Chiefs Women bid farewell to outgoing players

Exeter Chiefs Women will bid farewell to seven players at the end of the 2025/26 season.

Among those confirmed so far will be Canadian hooker and crowd favourite Emily Tuttosi who is heading back to Canada to take on a coaching role. The 30-year-old joined Chiefs in their inaugural season. She has played 88 games for the club and scored 31 tries.

Tuttosi will be joined on the leavers’ list by former Ireland captain Edel ‘Tricky’ McMahon, who has been with the club since 2022. Operations to both knees have meant the flanker has not been able take part in the 2025/26...

Read more

Exeter Rugby Club members vote to accept expression of interest

Members and shareholders of Exeter Rugby Club Group plc gathered at Sandy Park last night (7 May) to vote on an expression of interest to buy the club.

At a special general meeting held in the Exeter Suite, the club’s chairman and CEO Tony Rowe talked through a letter of intent from Cannae Holdings Inc’s (Black Knight Sports and Entertainment), which outlined their interest in purchasing all the shares of Exeter Rugby Club Group plc.

Members voted by a majority to permit the sale of the company.

Rowe said: “This does not represent a firm offer. It is just a non-...

Read more
Ida Hotel and Restaurant, Icmeler, Türkiye
your pets daily logo
Home Education Daily logo
Food and Drink Daily logo in red, white and black
your beauty daily logo with heart

Top video

Selco Builders Warehouse | England Rugby star Jack Nowell visits Exeter Saracens junior teams

England ace Jack delivers tips to Saracens

Exeter Weather