Zach Mercer

Position: No. 8
Country: not available
Age: 29
Born: 28 Jun 1997
Height: 1.91 m
Weight: not available
Caps: not available
Test tries · pts: not available

Season by season

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Zach Mercer, season by season in tracked matches
Season	App	St	T	Pts
2026–27 Top 14 · Toulon	4	4	0	0
2025–26 Top 14 · Toulon	1	1	0	0

Minutes are not recorded in the match feed for these matches.

Last five matches

Match by match

5 tracked matches

Zach Mercer, attack totals in tracked matches
Attack	Total
Running metres	191
Carries	59
Clean breaks	0
Offloads	4
Try assists	1
Passes	30

Zach Mercer, defence totals in tracked matches
Defence	Total
Tackles made	52
Tackles missed	2
Tackle success	96%

Top 14 5 apps · 0 tries

Zach Mercer, every tracked match in Top 14
Match	Car	M	Tkl
v Racing 92 10 Oct 2026 · W 29–15	15	57	13
v Montpellier 4 Oct 2026 · L 0–28	9	15	13
v La Rochelle 12 Sep 2026 · L 20–21	9	15	2
v Bayonne 5 Sep 2026 · L 26–27	16	76	16
v Castres 6 Jun 2026 · L 21–38	10	28	8
Totals 5 apps · 0 tries	59	191	52

About Zach Mercer

Voted the best player in France in 2022. He went back to England to make himself eligible, and was not picked.

Zach Mercer was voted the best player in the French championship in 2022, having played 26 of Montpellier’s 28 league matches and started the final they won. He then went home to Gloucester specifically to become eligible for England again. Steve Borthwick left him out of the 41-man World Cup squad.

No 8 at Toulon, 1.91m and 108kg, and 29 years old.

Born in Leeds and raised in Halifax, he moved to Scotland at eight and went through school in Glasgow, playing for the Warriors academy and for Scotland under-16s on residency. Bath took him back to England in 2016.

He captained England under-20s to a Grand Slam in 2017 and was voted the Premiership young player of the season ahead of Ellis Genge and Joe Marchant. A junior world title had come the year before.

France is where he became a great player. In the 2022 Top 14 final he grubbered the kick that Arthur Vincent scored the opening try from, and finished the season with 31 appearances, five tries, the player of the year award and a place in the team of the season.

The English return brought a domestic cup, won 23-13 against Leicester and Gloucester’s first trophy in nine years, a losing Challenge Cup final against the Sharks, no England cap, and a serious knee injury that ended his 2024-25 season early.

France got him back for 2025-26. One of the outstanding back-row forwards of his generation, and a reminder that eligibility rules decide careers as much as form does.