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Scarlets Director of Rugby

Nigel Davies

Role: Director of Rugby
Team: Scarlets
Nationality: Welsh
Age: 61
In charge since: Jun 2026
Matches: 4
Record W-D-L: 2-0-2
Win rate: 50.0%

Record in our match database since Sep 2026

as of 17 Oct 2026

4 Matches
2 Won
0 Drawn
2 Lost
50.0% Win rate

Nigel Davies has overseen 4 completed Scarlets matches in our database since September 2026 — 2 won, 0 drawn, 2 lost. That is a 50.0% win rate, with 115 points scored and 99 conceded.

Records are computed from the WeTalkRugby match database and cover matches we hold data for within this tenure. They are not an official all-time record.

Record by competition

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Nigel Davies, record by competition in our match database
Competition	P	W	L	Win %	PF	PA
All matches · Scarlets All competitions	4	2	2	50.0%	115	99
United Rugby Championship Sep 2026 – Oct 2026	3	1	2	33.3%	68	85
Challenge Cup Oct 2026	1	1	0	not available	47	14

Last five matches

Every match in our database

4 matches

United Rugby Championship 3P · 1W · 0D · 2L

Challenge Cup 1P · 1W · 0D · 0L

Won v NewCastle RedBulls 47–14 17 Oct 2026

Career

Scarlets Director of Rugby 2026– 4 matches in our data

About Nigel Davies

Nigel Davies is director of rugby at the Scarlets, a 29-cap Wales centre and Llanelli one-club man brought back to rebuild the region.

Nigel Davies is Director of Rugby at the Scarlets, confirmed permanently in June 2026 after five months in the role on an interim basis. He works above head coach Dwayne Peel, who leads daily coaching, match preparation and technical delivery.

Born in Trimsaran in March 1965, he was a centre and a Llanelli one-club man, making 498 appearances and scoring 115 tries. He won 29 caps for Wales.

Coaching and beyond

Davies was assistant to Wales under Gareth Jenkins and caretaker Wales head coach in 2007. He was Scarlets head coach from 2008 to 2012, then Director of Rugby at Gloucester until 2014, head coach at Ebbw Vale, and chief executive at Merthyr. Alongside rugby he spent two decades in business consultancy, organisational transformation and leadership development — which is precisely why he was brought back.

The remit

He was appointed interim Director of Rugby in January 2026 after conducting a review of the rugby department, and confirmed permanently that June. The job is structural rather than technical: alignment, squad rebuild and assembling a coaching team, at a critical moment for Welsh professional rugby.