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Jacob Stockdale

Date of birth

3 April 1996 (age 27)

Place of birth

Newtownstewart, Northern Ireland

Height

1.91 m (6 ft 3 in)

Weight

102 kg (16 st 1 lb; 225 lb)

School

Wallace High School

Rugby union career

Senior career
Position(s)	Centre, Wing, Fullback
Years	Team	Apps	(Points)
2016–	Ulster	86	(155)
Correct as of 4 October 2022
National team(s)
Years	Team	Apps	(Points)
2015–2016	Ireland U20	13	(50)
2017–	Ireland	35	(95)
2022	Ireland Wolfhounds	1	(0)
Correct as of 15 November 2022

Jacob Stockdale (born 3 April 1996) is an Irish professional rugby union player who currently plays for Ulster and for Ireland. He plays on the wing or at fullback. He holds the record for tries scored in a single Six Nations Championship, scoring seven for Ireland in the 2018 tournament, for which he was also named Player of the Championship. He won the Nevin Spence Irish Young Player of the Year award in 2018, and was nominated for EPCR European Player of the Year in 2019.

Biography
Statistics
- International tries
Honours
- Ireland
- Awards
See also

Biography

He was born in Newtownstewart in County Tyrone before his family settled in Lurgan. He grew up idolising Tommy Bowe and Jonah Lomu. He attended Wallace High School in Lisburn, where he played in the back row before moving to centre. He played for the school's first team in his final year, was selected for Ireland at Schools and under-18 level, and was named Ulster Schools Player of the Year in the 2014 Ulster Rugby Awards.

He joined the Ulster academy ahead of the 2014–15 season, while studying criminology at Ulster University at Jordanstown. He made his senior debut for Ulster against Benetton in January 2016, making six appearances, including five starts, in the 2015–16 season, and was selected for Ireland under-20s in the 2016 under-20 Six Nations and the 2016 under-20 World Championship. In the 2016–17 season he made 20 appearances including eight starts, and scored nine tries. At the end of the season he was named Ulster's Young Player of the Year. He was named in the Ireland squad for the 2017 Summer Tour, and made his international debut against the United States.

In 2017–18 he made 19 appearances for Ulster, including 18 starts, and scored ten tries. He played his first home game for Ireland in November 2017, against South Africa where he scored a try. Two weeks later in the same November series he won "man of the match" after scoring two tries in Ireland's 28–19 victory over Argentina. He was named Player of the Championship in the 2018 Six Nations Championship, after setting a tournament record for most tries scored with seven as Ireland won the Grand Slam. He was awarded the Nevin Spence Young Player of the Year award by Rugby Players Ireland in May 2018, and won BBC Northern Ireland Sports Personality of the Year in December 2018.

In 2018–19 he made twelve appearances for Ulster, including eleven starts, and scored seven tries. He was nominated for EPCR European Player of the Year in 2019. For Ireland, he won eleven caps, including five in the 2019 Six Nations Championship and four at the 2019 Rugby World Cup, and scored three tries, including one in Ireland's first ever victory against the All Blacks on Irish soil,

In 2019–20 he made 13 appearances, all starts, for Ulster, and scored two tries. For Ireland, he won five caps in the 2020 Six Nations Championship. In 2020-21 he made 14 appearances, all starts, for Ulster, and scored three tries. For Ireland, he won five caps three in the 2020 Autumn Nations Cup, one in the 2021 Six Nations Championship, and one against Japan in July 2021. In 2021–22, he injured his ankle in Ulster's opening United Rugby Championship match against Glasgow Warriors, which kept him out for the rest of the season, eventually requiring surgery in January 2022.

Stockdale is a Christian (his father is a Presbyterian minister), and prays before each game.

Statistics

International tries

Try	Opposing team	Location	Venue	Competition	Date	Result
1	United States	Harrison	Red Bull Arena	2017 Ireland Tour	10 June 2017	Won
2	South Africa	Dublin	Aviva Stadium	2017 November Tests	11 November 2017	Won
3-4	Argentina	Dublin	Aviva Stadium	2017 November Tests	25 November 2017	Won
5-6	Italy	Dublin	Aviva Stadium	2018 Six Nations	10 February 2018	Won
7-8	Wales	Dublin	Aviva Stadium	2018 Six Nations	24 February 2018	Won
9-10	Scotland	Dublin	Aviva Stadium	2018 Six Nations	10 March 2018	Won
11	England	London	Twickenham Stadium	2018 Six Nations	17 March 2018	Won
12	New Zealand	Dublin	Aviva Stadium	2018 November Tests	17 November 2018	Won
13	Scotland	Edinburgh	Murrayfield	2019 Six Nations	9 February 2019	Won
14	Italy	Rome	Rome	2019 Six Nations	24 February 2019	Won
15-16	Wales	Cardiff	Millennium Stadium	2019 Rugby World Cup warm-up	31 August 2019	Won
17	France	Paris	Aviva Stadium	2020 Six Nations	31 October 2020	Lost
18	England	London	Twickenham Stadium	2020 Autumn Nations Cup	21 November 2020	Lost
19	Japan	Dublin	Aviva Stadium	2021 July rugby union tests	3 July 2021	Won