Sam Stanley (rugby Union)
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Sam Stanley (born 8 November 1991) is a British
rugby union Rugby union football, commonly known simply as rugby union in English-speaking countries and rugby 15/XV in non-English-speaking world, Anglophone Europe, or often just rugby, is a Contact sport#Terminology, close-contact team sport that orig ...
player. He played
rugby sevens Rugby sevens (commonly known simply as sevens, and originally seven-a-side rugby) is a variant of rugby union in which teams are made up of seven players playing seven-minute halves, instead of the usual 15 players playing 40-minute halves. R ...
for England during the 2013/14 and 2014/15
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. At club level, he previously played for
Saracens F.C. Saracens Rugby Club () are an English professional rugby union club based in North London, England, currently playing in Premiership Rugby, which is the highest level of competition in English rugby. Established in 1876, the club has spent mo ...
(2010–2014) and the
Bedford Blues Bedford Blues are a semi-professional rugby union club in the town of Bedford, England, currently playing in the RFU Championship. History Foundation and 19th century Bedford RUFC was founded in 1886 after an amalgamation between Bedford Rove ...
(2011–2014). In 2015, he signed with the
Ealing Trailfinders Ealing Trailfinders Rugby Club is an English professional rugby union club based in West London. The club's first team are the reigning RFU Championship champions of 2024–25 but were considered ineligible for promotion to Premiership Rugby a ...
. He can play at
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or
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Personal life

Stanley comes from a rugby playing family. His brother is
Michael Stanley Michael Stanley (born Michael Stanley Gee; March 25, 1948 – March 5, 2021) was an American singer-songwriter, musician, and radio and television personality. As a solo artist and with the Michael Stanley Band (MSB), and Michael Stanley and t ...
, who plays for Samoa, and his uncle is
Joe Stanley Joe Stanley (born 13 April 1957) is a former rugby union player. He was born in Auckland, New Zealand. Career Stanley played for Ponsonby RFC and Auckland in the National Provincial Championship, and New Zealand as a centre. Joe is a member o ...
, who played rugby for New Zealand. In August 2015, Stanley became the first English rugby union player to
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as gay. In 2017, he announced his engagement to his long term boyfriend, ( Laurence Hicks): they had met seven years previously on a
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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Stanley, Sam 1991 births Living people English rugby union players England international rugby sevens players Saracens F.C. players Rugby union fullbacks Rugby union fly-halves English gay sportsmen British LGBTQ rugby union players Ealing Trailfinders Rugby Club players 21st-century English sportsmen