Squad Sizes - 2013/14 Domestic Competition

first number is the amount of players to have started a League match, secon the number who have had just replacement appearances


Aviva Premiership

Saracens: 36/8
Northampton: 31/9
Bath: 36/6
Leicester: 37/7
Harlequins: 35/9
Sale: 31/6
Wasps 34/9
Exeter: 30/6
Gloucester: 35/5
London Irish: 34/7
Newcastle: 36/4
Worcester: 37/4

Ranges from total squad size of 44 (Sarries/Tigers) to 36 (Exeter). Frommemory (did this same piece last year) in general this is fewer players than 2012/13.


Pro 12

Leinster: 42/5
Glasgow: 42/5
Munster: 40/6
Ulster: 41/5
Ospreys: 38/6
Scarlets: 33/9
Edinburgh: 39/7
Cardiff: 39/5
Connacht: 36/6
Dragons: 41/3
Treviso: 38/9
Zebre: 42/7

About the same as last season, overall. Zebre have used the most players, with Scarlets the least.


Top 14

Toulon: 38/3
Montpellier: 41/4
Clermont: 39/5
Racing: 38/3
Castres: 35/3
Toulouse: 39/4
Stade: 39/6
Begles: 38/3
Brives: 42/3
Grenoble: 42/6
Oyonnax: 40/2
Perpignan: 35/3
Bayonne: 36/3
Biarritz: 37/7

Lower than I was expecting.

Very interesting, thanks for that.

For all the talk of the top 14 being so tough they aren't using that many players to rotate.

Not surprised the rabo use the most players as teams like Glasgow, Leinster and Treviso are decimated during the AI and 6N.

The top-down league Co-Ops do have whole substructures to draw upon. The bottom-up privateers can't just nick off their rivals' shelves to supply stock deficiencies.

Well not legally anyway.

Very interesting, I guess the reason the T14 clubs squads are the biggest is that there are only so many SH superstars available...

Does our number include short term loanees like Ian Nimmo and Sean Kennedy who came and went?

Cumulatively the player appearances amount to


Saracens: 44
Northampton: 40
Bath: 42
Leicester: 44
Harlequins: 44
Sale: 38
Wasps 42
Exeter: 36
Gloucester: 40
London Irish: 41
Newcastle: 40
Worcester: 41

Jeff Total: 492; Mean 41


Leinster: 47
Glasgow: 47
Munster: 46
Ulster: 46
Ospreys: 44
Scarlets: 42
Edinburgh: 46
Cardiff: 44
Connacht: 42
Dragons: 44
Treviso: 47
Zebre: 49

P12 Total: 544; Mean 45.3

Ireland Total: 181 ; Mean 45.25
Italy Total: 96 ; Mean 48
Scotland Total: 93 ; Mean 46.5
Wales Total: 174 ; Mean 43.5


Toulon: 41
Montpellier: 45
Clermont: 44
Racing: 41
Castres: 38
Toulouse: 43
Stade: 45
Begles: 41
Brives: 45
Grenoble: 48
Oyonnax: 42
Perpignan: 38
Bayonne: 39
Biarritz: 44

T14 Total: 604 ; Mean 43.1

Think that tells us what we knew. Teams with fewer Internationals can operate with smaller squads.

Edit: and for the French they have more games therefore more players required.