Stephen Begley

Stephen Begley (born 4 April 1975) is a Scottish former rugby union player who played for Glasgow Rugby, now Glasgow Warriors at the Lock position.

Begley played in the amateur Glasgow District side at Under 21 grade.

Begley played for the amateur club Glasgow Academicals. When the Accies merged with Glasgow High Kelvinside to form the Glasgow Hawks in 1997, he then played for the Glasgow Hawks.

For a short spell, Begley played for Old Belvedere RFC in Dublin, Ireland. He was then picked for the Scottish Exiles district team.

After moving back from France, Begley played for Watsonians before moving back to Hawks.

Begley was back with the Glasgow Hawks in 2003 via a short spell back at Glasgow Academicals. His try for the Hawks clinched the BT Premiership title for them in 2004 against Heriots. Hawks became the first ever west of Scotland team to win the Scottish title, in 30 years of effort. Heriots had approached Begley to play for them in 1996. The next year 2005 Hawks almost wrapped up the title against Heriots at Goldenacre with Begley again scoring a try. The 2006 title was almost made certain at Currie.

Begley left Glasgow Hawks in 2006.

Begley played several times for the professional side Glasgow in Europe.

He played for the Scotland Under 19s and Scotland Under 21s and hoped for a call up to Scotland A.

He played for the French rugby clubs Lyon, Strasbourg and Brive.

He also played rugby in London and Cape Town. The Cape Town side was Hamilton RFC, Sea Point. Begley played for them in the nineties and then turned out for them as a guest player when Hamilton, Sea Point entered a Sevens team in the Melrose Sevens in 2011. Begley turned out for them in the precursor Veterans Tens tournament which then the Cape Town side went on to win.