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23 Oct 2025 - Corporate

Scottish Rugby appoints Gemma Fay as first Managing Director of Women’s Rugby

In the newly created position, Fay will lead the continued expansion and professionalisation of women’s rugby in Scotland to ensure sustainable success from grassroots through to the elite programmes. The key areas of responsibility for this role are strategic development, commercialisation, and financial budget management. She will work closely with Performance Director David Nucifora, newly […]

7 Oct 2025 - Corporate

Scottish Rugby broadens safeguarding approach to cover whole rugby community

Historically seen as a reactive measure to dealing with concerns over child safety the new approach, endorsed by Chief Executive Alex Williamson, follows the learnings from a recent external audit carried out by industry experts, Patronus Safeguarding. The audit provided the insight to give Scottish Rugby’s ‘Safeguarding Everyone’ policy a proactive focus and delivering a […]

7 Oct 2025 - Corporate

Scottish Rugby statement

“As a group of national rugby unions, we are urging extreme caution for players and support staff considering joining the proposed R360 competition. We all welcome new investment and innovation in rugby; and support ideas that can help the game evolve and reach new audiences; but any new competition must strengthen the sport as a […]

23 Sep 2025 - Corporate

Scottish Rugby to launch new official travel company

Scottish Rugby Travel, the new supporter travel programme, will create, deliver and manage ticket-inclusive travel and event experiences from the start of the 2026 Guinness Six Nations Championships, home and away. Scottish Rugby has teamed up with Mike Burton Travel, who has operated successful experiential ticket-inclusive travel programmes for many decades taking thousands of supporters […]

21 Jul 2025 - Corporate

Steve Tandy leaves Scotland to take up Wales head coach role

He will lead Wales going into the Quilter Nations Series in November. Tandy joined Scotland ahead of the 2020 Guinness Six Nations and has played an instrumental role in the development of the national team’s defence in recent years. Following an instant impact in his role with Scotland he was selected to join the British […]

14 Jul 2025 - Corporate

Seligmann joins SRL Board as Scottish Rugby Union nominated Independent Non-Executive Director

Steven brings extensive leadership experience and in-depth understanding of working in an integrated way at board, executive and senior leadership level across high-performance sport. His career to date has seen him working in high performance roles across team sports, professional sport, Olympic and Paralympic teams and he brings a proven track record of working in […]

1 Jul 2025 - Scottish Gas Murrayfield

Scottish Rugby appoints David White to CFO role

David will join the organisation on 15 July and also becomes a member of the Scottish Rugby Limited Board. He replaces Oliver Colling who has held the interim CFO role since spring 2024. David’s career to date has seen him work at a national and international level in senior finance and general management roles covering […]

9 Apr 2025 - Scottish Gas Murrayfield

Scottish Rugby Strengthens Leadership Team with Key Commercial Appointment

Scottish Rugby has taken a significant step toward accelerating commercial growth and securing a sustainable future with the appointment of its first-ever Chief Customer Officer, announced today (9 April 2025). The Edinburgh-based governing body, which owns Scottish Gas Murrayfield Stadium, has appointed Olaf Gueldner to oversee its commercial, brand, marketing, digital, and content strategies following […]

6 Mar 2025 - Corporate

Scottish Rugby partners with Coca-Cola

The exclusive three-year sponsorship will allow fans to enjoy a match day with a wide range of CCEP’s portfolio of products, including Coca-Cola, Coca-Cola Zero Sugar, Sprite, Fanta and Schweppes mixers. As well as this, Powerade will be supplied to Scotland’s national men’s and women’s teams, U20 players and coaches. In addition to Scotland’s […]

18 Feb 2025 - Corporate

Royal support for Scottish Rugby’s own charity

The charity, established in 1973, Scottish Rugby’s centenary year, is delighted to announce that HRH The Princess Royal, has agreed to become its Patron. MIPF chair, Ian Rankin said: “The Princess Royal has been a dedicated supporter of the Scotland rugby team through umpteen swings of fortune since the 1980s, performing the official opening of […]