Stephen Jones (rugby player)
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| Personal information | |||
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| Full name | Stephen Michael Jones | ||
| Born |
8 December 1977 Aberystwyth, Wales |
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| Height | 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) | ||
| Weight | 94 kg (14 st 11 lb) | ||
| Club information | |||
| Playing position |
Fly-half Inside centre |
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| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps† | (Pts)† |
| 1996–2003 | Llanelli | 197 | (1786) |
| 2003–2004 | Llanelli Scarlets | 12 | (146) |
| 2004–2006 | Clermont Auvergne | 43 | (566) |
| 2006–2012 | Scarlets | 107 | (918) |
| 2012–2013 | London Wasps | 15 | (136) |
| Representative team(s) | |||
| Wales U16 | () | ||
| Wales U18 | () | ||
| Wales U19 | () | ||
| Wales U21 | () | ||
| Wales Schools | () | ||
| 1998–2011 | Wales | 104 | (917) |
| 2005–2009 | British and Irish Lions | 6 | (53) |
| Teams coached | |||
| 2013–2015 | London Wasps (attack coach) | ||
| 2015– | Scarlets (backs coach) | ||
| † Appearances (Points). |
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Stephen Michael Jones (born 8 December 1977) is a Welsh former rugby union player who played primarily at fly-half for Wales and the British and Irish Lions.
Jones was the record cap holder for Wales until he was overtaken by Gethin Jenkins on 15 March 2014. He remains as Wales most capped back. Jones is sixth in the List of leading rugby union test point scorers, and the second-highest Wales player on the list behind Neil Jenkins.
At the end of the 2012–13 season, Jones retired from playing professional rugby to take up a coaching position at London Wasps and in August 2015 he joined the Scarlets as backs coach.
Jones was born in Aberystwyth. He joined Llanelli RFC in 1996, staying there until the 2003–04 season. He played his last Welsh club season for the Llanelli Scarlets, the Llanelli side in the Welsh regional setup introduced that year. In his Welsh top-level career, he made more than 200 appearances and scored almost 2,000 points.
In 2004, he joined Clermont Auvergne, formerly known as Montferrand. He had a successful club career with Clermont and he was chosen by French journalists as the fly-half of the season in his second year at the club.
After two years at Clermont he returned to play for the Scarlets in 2006. Back in Llanelli, Jones and the team had an excellent run in the Heineken Cup in 2007 and reached the semi-finals after wins home and away against Ulster and Toulouse, and a comfortable home victory against 2006 winners Munster in the quarter-finals. The Scarlets ultimately came unstuck against Leicester in the semi-final.
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