The Rugby Awards 2025 Winners

Premiership Rugby, the Rugby Players Association (RPA), Premiership Women’s Rugby (PWR) and Rugby Football Union (RFU) joined forces to celebrate The Rugby Awards, presented by Gallagher, with a black tie ceremony in The City of London.

The Gallagher Player of the Season and the Breakthrough Player of the Season, presented by Defender, were shortlisted by a panel of media experts and voted for by the Gallagher Premiership Players with a record number of votes cast by players for the end-of-season awards.

Full list of award winners:

Gallagher Player of the Season

Tomos Williams (Gloucester Rugby)

Breakthrough Player of the Season, presented by Defender:

Henry Pollock (Northampton Saints)

Director of Rugby of the Season, presented by London Pride:

Johann van Graan (Bath Rugby)

Community Player of the Season, presented by Funding Circle:

 Ellis Genge (Bristol Bears)

The Community Player of the Season was voted by employees of Funding Circle.

Gallagher Premiership Rugby Top Try Scorer, presented by Christopher Ward

Ollie Hassell-Collins (Leicester Tigers) - 13

Gabriel Ibitoye (Bristol Bears) - 13

PWR Player of the Season, presented by Clinique:

Meg Jones (Leicester Tigers)

PWR Breakthrough Player of the Season, presented by Defender:

Millie David (Bristol Bears)

PWR Director of Rugby of the Season, presented by Asahi:

Sean Lynn (Gloucester Hartpury)

PWR Top Try Scorer, presented by Christopher Ward:

May Campbell (Saracens) - 16

Millie David (Bristol Bears) – 16

England Men's Player of the Season, presented by Advanta Wealth:

Tommy Freeman (Northampton Saints)

England Women's Player of the Season, presented by LexisNexis Risk Solutions:

Zoe Aldcroft (Gloucester Hartpury)

Vodafone Business RPA Gain Line Award

Josh Bassett (Leicester Tigers)

Josh Caulfield (Bristol Bears)

Harry Glover (Great Britain 7s)

Harry Thacker & Jake Woolmore (Bristol Bears)

The RPA Blyth Spirit Award

Taylor Gough

The shortlists for the Gallagher Premiership Rugby awards were chosen by a panel consisting of Rachael Burford (RPA), Christian Day (RPA), Jill Douglas (ITV, BBC), Ali Eykyn (TNT Sports), Hugh Godwin (The i Paper), Chris Jones (BBC), Alex Lowe (The Times), Gavin Mairs (Telegraph), Ugo Monye (BBC, TNT Sports), Nick Mullins (TNT Sports) and Claire Thomas (BBC, TNT Sports).