England’s most-capped men’s player Ben Youngs has announced he will retire at the end of the 2024-25 season.
The scrum-half, 35, played in 127 Tests for his country and won four Six Nations titles as well as five Premiership titles with Leicester Tigers.
Youngs became Leicester’s youngest ever league player aged 17 in April 2007 and made his 332nd appearance for the club in Sunday’s win at Bristol.
“The time will come to thank everybody who has helped me achieve what I have, but that’s for when it comes to an end,” he said.
“For now, it’s about finishing this chapter of my life with some more success. I’m not done just yet.”
Youngs made his England debut in March 2010 and played at four World Cups in 2011, 2015, 2019 and 2023, retiring from international rugby after the last one in France, where he helped England finish third after victory in the bronze final.
He was part of the successful British and Irish Lions tour of Australia in 2013, featuring in the first two Tests, but withdrew from the 2017 squad to tour New Zealand for family reasons.
Youngs played for Leicester and England alongside his brother Tom, who retired in 2022, while their father Nick played for the club between 1981 and 1988.
In 2021, the family became the first to reach 600 Tigers appearances, a total that now stands at 692.
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