Shaun Edwards

Shaun Edwards, OBE (born 17 October 1966 in Wigan) is an English rugby union coach and former rugby league footballer, a scrum-half or stand-off who is described as the most decorated player in rugby league history with 37 winner's medals. He signed for Wigan on his seventeenth birthday for a then record schoolboy fee, played 452 games for the club between 1983 and 1997, and won a record eight championships and nine Challenge Cups, with spells at Balmain Tigers, London Broncos and Bradford Bulls. He won Man of Steel in 1990, played 36 times for Great Britain, captained England at the 1995 World Cup and appeared in three Rugby League World Cups. After retiring in 2000 he moved into rugby union, first as assistant and then head coach of London Wasps, then as defence coach of Wales, the British and Irish Lions, France and, from 2026, Argentina. He is an inductee of the Rugby League Hall of Fame and the Wigan Warriors Hall of Fame.