Personal information | ||||||
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Born |
Pontefract, England |
17 October 1991 |||||
Height | 191 cm (6 ft 3 in) | |||||
Weight | 93 kg (14 st 9 lb) | |||||
Playing information | ||||||
Position | Fullback, Centre | |||||
Club | ||||||
Years | Team | Pld | T | G | FG | P |
2010–11 | Featherstone Rovers | 19 | 27 | 0 | 0 | 108 |
2011– | Leeds Rhinos | 154 | 72 | 45 | 1 | 379 |
2016(loan) | → Penrith Panthers | 11 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
2017– | → Castleford Tigers (loan) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Total | 185 | 100 | 45 | 1 | 491 | |
Representative | ||||||
Years | Team | Pld | T | G | FG | P |
2011–13 | England Knights | 3 | 3 | 9 | 0 | 30 |
2012–15 | England | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 8 |
As of 10 February 2017 | ||||||
Source: RLP |
Zak Hardaker (born 17 October 1991) is an English professional rugby league footballer who currently plays on loan from Leeds Rhinos for Castleford Tigers in the Super League. Hardaker previously played for the Featherstone Rovers in the Championship, Leeds Rhinos in the Super League and the Penrith Panthers in the National Rugby League. His preferred position is fullback, but he can also play at centre and on the wing. An England international representative, Hardaker has won two Challenge Cups and three Super League championships with Leeds. Individually he has been named to the Super League Dream Team on two occasions, and was the 2015 Man of Steel.
Hardaker joined Featherstone Rovers from local amateur side Featherstone Lions after leaving school at Carleton High School in Pontefract. He previously played for his home town club Knottingley Rockware before signing pro terms with Featherstone Rovers.
He scored a hat-trick of tries on his 2010 début for Featherstone Rovers against Hunslet, and went on to score 22 tries in 14 games in all competitions in his début season. This included two tries in Rovers' extra-time 23–22 Co-operative Grand Final defeat by Halifax.
At the end of the season he was named joint Co-operative Championship Young Player of the Year, along with Gareth Moore of Batley Bulldogs.