Stephen Begley

Stephen Begley (born 4 April 1975) is a Scottish^[2] former rugby union player who played for Glasgow Rugby, now Glasgow Warriors at the Lock position.

Begley played in the amateur Glasgow District side at Under 21 grade.^[3]

Begley played for the amateur club Glasgow Academicals.^[4][5][6][7] When the Accies merged with Glasgow High Kelvinside to form the Glasgow Hawks in 1997, he then played for the Glasgow Hawks.^[8][9][10]

For a short spell, Begley played for Old Belvedere RFC in Dublin, Ireland. He was then picked for the Scottish Exiles district team.^[11]

After moving back from France, Begley played for Watsonians^[12] before moving back to Hawks.^[13]

Begley was back with the Glasgow Hawks in 2003^[14] via a short spell back at Glasgow Academicals.^[15] His try for the Hawks clinched the BT Premiership title for them in 2004 against Heriots. Hawks became the first ever west of Scotland team to win the Scottish title,^[16] in 30 years of effort.^[17] Heriots had approached Begley to play for them in 1996.^[18] The next year 2005 Hawks almost wrapped up the title against Heriots at Goldenacre with Begley again scoring a try.^[19] The 2006 title was almost made certain at Currie.^[20]

Begley left Glasgow Hawks in 2006.^[21]

Begley played several times for the professional side Glasgow in Europe.^[22][23]

He played for the Scotland Under 19s^[24] and Scotland Under 21s^[4][25] and hoped for a call up to Scotland A.^[26]

He played for the French rugby clubs Lyon,^[27] Strasbourg and Brive.^[1][2]

He also played rugby in London and Capetown.^[2] The Capetown side was Hamilton RFC, Sea Point. Begley played for them in the nineties and then turned out for them as a guest player when Hamilton, Sea Point entered a Sevens team in the Melrose Sevens in 2011. Begley turned out for them in the precursor Veterans Tens tournament which then the Capetown side went on to win.^[28]

References

External links

• EPC profile
• Begley European call-up
• Begley against Wasps