The 2024–25 season is Edinburgh's fourth season in the United Rugby Championship, their 31st season of professional rugby. Along with competing in the URC and its Scottish-Italian Shield competition, the club will also participate in the 2024-25 European Rugby Challenge Cup and the 1872 Cup.
Edinburgh Rugby drew an average home attendance of 10,535 in the 2024-25 URC season.https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/2025/04/04/in-another-staggered-season-rugbys-urc-has-lurched-along-all-the-while-breaking-attendance-records/
Coaching staff
Head coach: Sean Everitt Assistant skills coach: Robert Chrystie Forwards coach: Stevie Lawrie Defence coach: Michael Todd Attack and backs coach: Scott Mathie
2024–25 squad
Edinburgh Rugby United Rugby Championship squadProps
Paul Hill Robin Hislop D'Arcy Rae Pierre Schoeman Javan Sebastian Boan Venter Angus Williams*
Hookers
Ewan Ashman Dave Cherry Patrick Harrison
Locks
Rob Carmichael* Grant Gilchrist (cc) Jamie Hodgson Sam Skinner Marshall Sykes Glen YoungBack row
Magnus Bradbury Connor Boyle Luke Crosbie Tom Dodd Freddy Douglas Ben Muncaster Jamie Ritchie Hamish Watson
Scrum-halves
Ali Price Charlie Shiel Ben Vellacott (cc)
Fly-halves
Ben Healy Cammy Scott Ross ThompsonCentres
Mark Bennett Matt Currie James Lang Matt Scott Mosese Tuipulotu*
Wings
Wes Goosen Darcy Graham Ross McCann Nathan Sweeney Duhan van der Merwe
Fullbacks
Emiliano Boffelli Damien Hoyland Harry Paterson(cc) denotes the team co-captains, Bold denotes internationally capped players. * denotes players qualified to play for Scotland on residency or dual nationality. ST denotes a short-term signing. L denotes a player on loan at the club. Players and their allocated positions from the Edinburgh Rugby website.
Academy players Edinburgh Rugby Academy squadProps
Mikey Jones Ollie Blyth-Lafferty Jamie Stewart
Hookers
Jerry Blyth-Lafferty Harri Morris
Locks
Christian Lindsay Euan McVie Mak RutherfordBack row
Tom Currie Ollie Duncan Liam McConnell
Scrum-halves
Connor McAlpine Hamish McArthur Hector Patterson
Fly-halves
Isaac Coates Ross WolfendenCentres
Jack Hocking Sam Leweni Findlay Thomson
Wings
Nairn Moncrieff Lewis Wells
Fullbacks
Jack Brown(c) denotes the team captain, Bold denotes internationally capped players. * denotes players qualified to play for Scotland on residency or dual nationality. ST denotes a short-term signing. Players and their allocated positions from the Edinburgh Rugby website.
United Rugby Championship
Main standings
Round 1
Round 2
Round 3
Round 4
Round 5
Round 6
Round 7
Round 8
Round 9
Round 10
Round 11
Round 12
Round 13
Round 14
Round 15
Round 16
Round 17
Round 18 Edinburgh Rugby qualify for the play-offs.
Play-offs
Bracket
Quarter-final Edinburgh are eliminated from the Championship.
Scottish x Italian Shield Standings
1872 Cup
Glasgow Warriors won the 2024–25 1872 Cup on aggregate score 40–24, after both teams won their home leg. The total attendance across the two fixtures was 67,601 or 33,800 per leg.
Glasgow leg
Edinburgh leg
European Challenge Cup
Pool standings
Round 1
Round 2
Round 3
Round 4
Round of 16 Edinburgh were the third highest seed after the pool stages, guaranteeing home advantage until the semifinals. In the Round of 16, they were drawn against 14th seed Lions.
Quarter-final Victory in the round of 16, and the loss of second seed, Montpellier in the same round left Edinburgh as the top seed in their half of the draw, and a guaranteed home semi-final if they defeated Bulls in the quarter-final.
Semi final A second successive home victory against South African opposition in the quarter final guaranteed Edinburgh a home Anglo-Scottish semi-final against a Gallagher Premiership team, either Bath or Gloucester, the latter the only team to beat Edinburgh in Europe this season.
Friendlies
Home attendance
Edinburgh's normal home stadium, the Edinburgh Rugby Stadium or The Hive has a capacity of 7,800. however, Edinburgh moved their home leg of the 1872 Cup fixture with Glasgow Warriors to Murrayfield Stadium. The bumper 40,063 crowd for this match over the festive period raises their average attendance above the capacity of their main stadium. Their Scottish rivals, Glasgow similarly moved their home fixture, in turn, to Hampden Park.
Domestic LeagueEuropean CupTotal League FixturesTotal Attendance Average Attendance Highest Lowest League FixturesTotal Attendance Average Attendance Highest Lowest Total Attendance Average Attendance2024–25 United Rugby Championship 994,81210,53540,063*Held at Murrayfield Stadium.5,4942024–25 European Rugby Challenge Cup422,567 5,6926,5384,737117,9809,089
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