Warren Gatland

Warren Gatland OBE

Full name	Warren David Gatland
Date of birth	(1963-09-17) 17 September 1963
Place of birth	Hamilton, New Zealand
Height	1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)
Weight	95 kg (209 lb)
School	Hamilton Boys' High School
University	Waikato University
Occupation(s)	Schoolteacher
Rugby union career
Current status
Position(s)	Head Coach
current team	Wales
Playing career
Position	Hooker
New Zealand No.	892
Provincial/State sides
Years	Club / team	Caps	(points)
1986–1994	Waikato	140
correct as of 9 November 2007.
Coaching career
Years	Club / team
1989–1994 1994–1996 1996–1998 1998–2001 2002–2005 2005–2007 2006–2007 2007– 2009 2013	Galwegians RFC Thames Valley (Asst Coach) Connacht Ireland London Wasps Waikato Chiefs (Technical Advisor) Wales British and Irish Lions (Asst Coach) British and Irish Lions (Head Coach)
correct as of 2 June 2013.

Warren David Gatland OBE (born 17 September 1963) is a New Zealand rugby union coach and former player. He is the head coach of Wales, and was head coach of the British and Irish Lions for their 2013 tour of Australia. As a player he held the record for most games played for Waikato, at 140 caps. Since moving into coaching, he has coached Connacht, Ireland, London Wasps and Waikato.

Playing career

Gatland was born in Hamilton, New Zealand and educated at Hamilton Boys' High School and Waikato University. He played 17 non-international matches for New Zealand, but never won an international cap. His first game as an All Black was in 1988, when he is said to have introduced a hybrid Australian Rules-Gaelic football game to the training sessions, which was well received by the other players.

Gatland became the record-holder of the most games for Waikato near the end of the 1994 season. He finished the season with 140 games in total and announced his retirement before the start of the 1995 season.

Coaching career

Gatland launched his coaching career as a player/coach for Taupiri in 1989, and following the 1989 New Zealand rugby union tour, he remained in Ireland to act as a player/coach for Galwegians RFC, leading the team to promotion into the All-Ireland League Division 2. After retiring from the club in 1994, he became assistant coach to Thames Valley in New Zealand, in doing so, coached the team to promotion from the third Division to the second in the National Provincial Championship. In 1996, he returned to Ireland and became the director of rugby at Connacht Rugby leading them to the quarter-finals of the 1997–98 European Challenge Cup after twice beating Northampton Saints in the pool stages.

Ireland

On 24 February 1998, following the resignation of former England coach Brian Ashton after round one of the 1998 Five Nations Championship, Gatland was appointed coach of Ireland.^[1] His first match in charge was against a rampant French side who had already scored over 70 points in the open two fixtures. However, Gatland led Ireland to a close 18–16 defeat at the Stade de France in Paris. Ireland finished in last place with zero points. Despite Gatland taking charge of a team for several years had regularly failed to win frequent matches, Gatland turned the team around and started to win matches more often. This included a 29–23 victory over the Welsh in the 1999 Five Nations Championship and a 32–24 test match win over Argentina. Ireland had a disappointing 1999 Rugby World Cup campaign and failed to make it to the quarter finals after losing narrowly to Argentina in a play-off game 28–24.

On 19 March 2000, Ireland beat France, in Paris, for the first time since 1972, when a hat-trick of tries from Brian O'Driscoll inspired Ireland to a 25–27 win. Ireland also notably beat France at Lansdowne Road in the return fixture in the 2001 Six Nations Championship. In addition to Ireland's 27–25 win in 2000, Ireland also beat Italy in what was a six-try romp to win 60–13 in Dublin. In 2001, Gatland's final year as coach, Ireland finished the championship top level on points with England, but lost out on points difference. In the same year, Gatland's Irish team almost achieved a historic upset victory against the touring All Blacks, losing 29–40, in what was Gatland's final match in charge of Ireland. He was sacked and was replaced by his assistant coach Eddie O'Sullivan. Overall, Gatland had moved Ireland up two places to sixth in the IRB World Rankings, and had finished with a 47% win rate (won 18, drew 1, lost 19).

London Wasps

After losing his job with Ireland, he joined the coaching staff at London Wasps under Nigel Melville as the Director of Rugby. The team was bottom of the Premiership at this time, but Gatland helped steer them away from the relegation zone and develop one of the meanest defenses in Europe. He took over as Director of Rugby when Melville left for Gloucester at the end of the 2001–02 season. Under Gatland's guidance, London Wasps won multiple Premiership titles; in 2003, 2004 and 2005. This titles includes the Wasps beating Northampton Saints in the semi-final in 2003 and again in 2004, while they also had to beat Leicester Tigers in the final in 2005. In Europe, London Wasps won the 2002–03 European Challenge Cup, winning eight from eight matches, before beating Bath 48–30 away in the final. With their promotion up to the Heineken Cup for the 2003–04 season, London Wasps clinched the title, losing only to the Celtic Warriors on their way to a 27–20 victory over French giants Toulouse. At the end of the 2004/2005 season, Gatland returned to New Zealand, where he was installed as coach at Waikato.

Return to New Zealand (Waikato)

On his return to New Zealand to coach Waikato in the National Provincial Championship (NPC), he led the side to seventh in the Division 1 table. However, under the new competition format, the Air New Zealand Cup in 2006, Gatland took Waikato to the final of the 2006 Air New Zealand Cup, beating Wellington in the final 37–31, losing only one match in the run up to the knock out stages. However, in the 2007 Air New Zealand Cup, Gatland was only able to lead Waikato to the quarter-finals, losing to 38–35 to Hawke's Bay. In addition to his role as head coach of Waikato, during the off-season, he acted as technical advisor for the Chiefs Super 14 team in 2006.

Wales

On 9 November 2007, Gatland was named head coach of Wales, and took up his position on 1 December 2007.^[2]

Gatland's first game as coach of Wales was in the opening week of the 2008 Six Nations Championship, which was a major upset as Wales beat England 26–19 after trailing 19–6 with nearly sixty minutes played. It was Wales' first win at Twickenham since 1988.^[3][4] After victories over Scotland and Italy, Wales went on to defeat the Triple Crown holders Ireland at Croke Park 16–12, thus winning the Triple Crown themselves. This was the first time Wales has held this trophy since 2005. In the final round of fixtures, Wales beat France at the Millennium Stadium 29–12, to clinch their 10th Grand Slam, 100 years after they won their first. Despite being Six Nations Champions, Gataland led Wales to a 2–0 test series defeat to South Africa during the 2008 mid-year rugby union tests, losing 43–17 and 37–21. Wales then went on to lose to South Africa at home during the 2008 Autumn internationals. Their Autumn campaign saw Wales win two, lose two - the two wins being a 34–13 win over Canada and a 21–18 win over Australia. This was Wales' first win over the Wallabies since 2005. Wales were unable to retain their Six Nations title in 2009, finishing fourth with just three wins; England, Italy and Scotland. Due to his commitments to the British and Irish Lions, he was unable to coach Wales to their Summer tour of North America against Canada and the United Stats. However, he led the team in their 2009 Autumn internationals campaign, which consisted of wins against Samoa, and Argentina, but loses to New Zealand and Australia. Wales remained fourth in the 2010 Six Nations Championship, with victories over Italy and Scotland. Their Summer tour consisted of a 2–0 test series defeat to the All Blacks (42–9 and 29–10), and their 2010 Autumn Campaign saw Wales at best get a 16–16 draw with Fiji - losses to Australia, South Africa and New Zealand. For the third consecutive year, Wales finished fourth in the Six Nations table, but on top off their wins over Scotland and Italy, Gatland led Wales to their first victory over Ireland since 2008.

Gatland led Wales to fourth in the 2011 Rugby World Cup, winning three off their four Pool D matches; 17–10 win over Samoa, 81–7 win over Namibia and an record breaking 66–0 win over Fiji, their lose was a 17–16 lose to the Springboks. Wales beat Ireland 22–10 in the quarter-final, but lose to France 9–8 in the semi-final. They lose the Bronze final to Australia 21–18 to finish fourth. This meant that Wales were ranked fourth in the world, their highest ever ranking again under Gatland, previously fourth in 2009.

In the 2012 Six Nations Championship, Gatland won a second Grand Slam in four year.^[5] However, Gatland was unable to see Wales' great form in their Summer tour of Australia, as in April 2012 Gatland broke both his heels while on holiday in New Zealand, and needed reconstructive surgery on his right heel. Initial hopes were that he would recover in time to lead Wales for their three-test tour,^[6] but on 19 April 2012 it was announced that he would not recover before the tour, and assistant coach Robert Howley took charge.^[7] Due to his success with Wales, Gatland was named Head Coach for the 2013 British and Irish Lions tour to Australia. This meant that Gataland was unable to coach Wales in their 2012 Autumn Campaign, but was allowed to coach the side against Australia and New Zealand. With Wales three defeats on their summer tour, and their winless Autumn Campaign, Wales dropped to tenth in the IRB World Rankings, they lowest ever ranking and a position they had not been in since 2007.

He was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2014 Birthday Honours for services to rugby.^[8]

British and Irish Lions

For the 2009 tour of South Africa, Gatland was named as assistant coach, specializing as the Forwards coach under Ian McGeechan. ^[9][10]

In September 2012, he was appointed Lions Head Coach for the 2013 tour of Australia.^[11][12] The Lions won the test series against Australia 2-1.^[13] He was given a 10-month contract with the Lions, taking a sabbatical from coaching Wales, although he did coach Wales against Australia and New Zealand in the 2012 Autumn internationals. Gatland promised impartial selection and said he believed that Graham Henry in 2001 picked too many Welsh players who were not good enough to go on the tour. He named Rob Howley, Graham Rowntree, Andy Farrell and Neil Jenkins as his assistants for the tour.

During the tour, Gatland led the Lions to a 2–1 series victory over the Wallabies, the first series win since the 1997 tour of South Africa. Including the non-test matches, Gatland coached the Lions to win eight out of the ten matches played, the loses coming against Australia in the second test, and the Brumbies in a mid week match. In the first test, he named ten Welsh players in the match day-23, four Irish, eight English and one Scot. This team won the first test 23–21, following a missed penalty by Kurtley Beale post 80 minutes. His team in the second test, consisting of nine Welsh, six Irish, seven English and one Scot, lost the test in Melbourne 16–15. In the third test, Gataland was heavily criticized by the amount of Welsh players in the match day 23, at 11 players. He was criticized over the dropping of Brian O'Driscoll, not just out of the starting XV, but out of the whole match day squad. Despite this, the Lions won the final test 41–16, which was with a record winning margin for the Lions against Australia.

Since the 2013 tour, Warren Gatland has been very vocal over his desire to lead the Lions in 2017 against his home nation New Zealand.^[14]

In December 2013, Gatland was named UK coach of the year at the 2013 UK Coaching Awards.^[15]

Coaching statistics

Ireland

Overview

Opponent	Played	Won	Drew	Lost	Win ratio (%)	For	Against
Argentina	3	1	0	2	33.33%	79	86
Australia	3	0	0	3	0%	39	101
Canada	1	0	1	0	0%	27	27
England	4	1	0	3	25%	70	126
France	4	2	0	2	50%	74	68
Georgia	1	1	0	0	100%	70	0
Italy	3	3	0	0	100%	140	65
Japan	1	1	0	0	100%	78	9
New Zealand	1	0	0	1	0%	29	40
Romania	3	3	0	0	100%	134	52
South Africa	4	0	0	4	0%	44	125
Samoa	1	1	0	0	100%	35	8
Scotland	3	1	0	2	33.33%	67	84
United States	2	2	0	0	100%	136	11
Wales	4	2	0	2	50%	105	82
TOTAL	38	18	1	19	47.37%	1127	884

International Matches as Head Coach

Matches (1998–2001)
Matches	Date	Opposition	Venue	Score (Ireland–Opponent)	Competition	Captain
1998
1	7 March	France	Stade de France, Saint-Denis	16–18	Five Nations Championship	Keith Wood
2	21 March	Wales	Lansdowne Road, Dublin	21–30
3	4 April	England	Twickenham, London	17–35
4	13 June	South Africa	Vodacom Park, Bloemfontein	13–37	South African Test Series	Paddy Johns
5	20 June		Loftus Versfeld, Pretoria	0–33
6	14 November	Georgia	Lansdowne Road, Dublin	70–0	1999 RWC Qualifier	Paddy Johns
7	21 November	Romania	Lansdowne Road, Dublin	53–35
8	28 November	South Africa	Lansdowne Road, Dublin	13–27	Autumn International	Paddy Johns
1999
9	6 February	France	Lansdowne Road, Dublin	9–10	Five Nations Championship	Paddy Johns
10	20 February	Wales	Wembley Stadium, London	29–23
11	6 March	England	Lansdowne Road, Dublin	15–27
12	20 March	Scotland	Murrayfield Stadium, Edinburgh	13–30
13	10 April	Italy	Lansdowne Road, Dublin	39–30	Test match	Paddy Johns
14	12 June	Australia	Ballymore Stadium, Brisbane	10–46	Australian Test Series	Dion O'Cuinneagain
15	19 June		Subiaco Oval, Perth	26–32
16	28 August	Argentina	Lansdowne Road, Dublin	32–24	Test match	Dion O'Cuinneagain
17	2 October	United States	Lansdowne Road, Dublin	53–8	1999 Rugby World Cup	Dion O'Cuinneagain
18	10 October	Australia	Lansdowne Road, Dublin	3–23
19	15 October	Romania	Lansdowne Road, Dublin	44–14
20	20 October	Argentina	Stade Félix Bollaert, Lens	24–28
2000
21	5 February	England	Twickenham, London	18–50	Six Nations Championship	Keith Wood
22	19 February	Scotland	Lansdowne Road, Dublin	44–22
23	4 March	Italy	Lansdowne Road, Dublin	60–13
24	19 March	France	Stade de France, Saint-Denis	27–25
25	1 April	Wales	Lansdowne Road, Dublin	19–23
26	3 June	Argentina	Estadio Ricardo Etcheverry, Buenos Aires	23–34	Americas Tour	Keith Wood
27	10 June	United States	Singer Family Park, Manchester, New Hampshire	83–3
28	17 June	Canada	Fletcher's Fields, Markham, Ontario	27–27
29	11 November	Japan	Lansdowne Road, Dublin	78–9	Autumn Internationals	Keith Wood
30	19 November	South Africa	Lansdowne Road, Dublin	18–28
2001
31	3 February	Italy	Stadio Flaminio, Rome	41–22	Six Nations Championship	Keith Wood
32	17 February	France	Lansdowne Road, Dublin	22–15
33	2 June 2001	Romania	Stadionul Arcul de Triumf, Bucharest	37–3	Test match	Mick Galwey
34	22 September	Scotland	Murrayfield Stadium, Edinburgh	10–32	Six Nations Championship	Keith Wood
35	13 October	Wales	Millennium Stadium, Cardiff	36–6
36	20 October	England	Lansdowne Road, Dublin	20–14
37	11 November	Samoa	Lansdowne Road, Dublin	35–8	Autumn Internationals	Anthony Foley
38	17 November	New Zealand	Lansdowne Road, Dublin	29–40		Keith Wood

Honors

• Six Nations Championship
  • Runners-up: 2001
  • Third: 2000

• Millennium Trophy
  • Winners: 2001
  • Runners-up: 1999, 2000

• Centenary Quaich
  • Winners: 2000
  • Runners-up: 1999, 2001

• Lansdowne Cup
  • Runners-up: 1999

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Wales

Overview

Opponent	Played	Won	Drew	Lost	Win ratio (%)	For	Against
Argentina	3	3	0	0	100%	101	35
Australia	8	1	0	7	12.50%	151	198
Barbarians	1	0	0	1	0.00%	28	31
Canada	1	1	0	0	100%	34	13
England	9	4	0	5	44.44%	176	184
Fiji	3	2	1	0	66.67%	99	29
France	8	4	0	4	50.00%	145	124
Ireland	8	5	0	3	62.50%	133	142
Italy	7	7	0	0	100%	232	87
Namibia	1	1	0	0	100%	81	7
New Zealand	7	0	0	7	0%	91	223
South Africa	10	1	0	9	10%	194	279
Samoa	2	2	0	0	100%	34	23
Scotland	7	7	0	0	100%	215	97
Tonga	1	1	0	0	100%	17	7
TOTAL	76	39	1	36	51.32%	1731	1479

International Matches as Head Coach

Note: World Rankings Column shows the World Ranking Wales was placed at on the following Monday after each of their matches

Matches (2008–Present)
Matches	Date	Opposition	Venue	Score (Wales–Opponent)	Competition	Captain	World Ranking
2008
1	2 February	England	Twickenham, London	26–19	Six Nations Championship	Ryan Jones	8th
2	9 February	Scotland	Millennium Stadium, Cardiff	30–15			8th
3	23 February	Italy	Millennium Stadium, Cardiff	47–8			8th
4	8 March	Ireland	Croke Park, Dublin	16–12			7th
5	15 March	France	Millennium Stadium, Cardiff	29–12			6th
6	7 June	South Africa	Vodacom Park, Bloemfontein	13–43	South African Test Series	Ryan Jones	6th
7	14 June		Loftus Versfeld, Pretoria	21–37			6th
8	8 November	South Africa	Millennium Stadium, Cardiff	15–20	Autumn internationals	Ryan Jones	7th
9	14 November	Canada	Millennium Stadium, Cardiff	34–13			7th
10	22 November	New Zealand	Millennium Stadium, Cardiff	9–29			6th
11	29 November	Australia	Millennium Stadium, Cardiff	21–18			5th
2009
12	8 February	Scotland	Murrayfield Stadium, Edinburgh	26–13	Six Nations Championship	Martyn Williams	4th
13	14 February	England	Millennium Stadium, Cardiff	23–15		Ryan Jones	4th
14	27 February	France	Stade de France, Saint-Denis	16–21			5th
15	14 March	Italy	Stadio Flaminio, Rome	20–15		Alun-Wyn Jones	5th
16	21 March	Ireland	Millennium Stadium, Cardiff	15–17		Ryan Jones	7th
17	7 November	New Zealand	Millennium Stadium, Cardiff	12–19	Autumn internationals	Ryan Jones	7th
18	13 November	Samoa	Millennium Stadium, Cardiff	17–13			8th
19	21 November	Argentina	Millennium Stadium, Cardiff	33–16			6th
20	28 November	Australia	Millennium Stadium, Cardiff	12–33		Gethin Jenkins	8th
2010
21	6 February	England	Twickenham, London	17–30	Six Nations Championship	Ryan Jones	8th
22	13 February	Scotland	Millennium Stadium, Cardiff	31–24			8th
23	26 February	France	Millennium Stadium, Cardiff	20–26			8th
24	13 March	Ireland	Croke Park, Dublin	12–27		Martyn Williams	8th
25	20 March	Italy	Millennium Stadium, Cardiff	33–10		Ryan Jones	8th
26	5 June	South Africa	Millennium Stadium, Cardiff	31–34	Mid-year test	Ryan Jones	8th
27	19 June	New Zealand	Carisbrook, Dunedin	9–42	New Zealand Test Series	Ryan Jones	8th
28	26 June		Waikato Stadium, Hamilton	10–29			8th
29	6 November	Australia	Millennium Stadium, Cardiff	16–25	Autumn internationals	Matthew Rees	9th
30	13 November	South Africa	Millennium Stadium, Cardiff	25–29			9th
31	19 November	Fiji	Millennium Stadium, Cardiff	16–16		Ryan Jones	9th
32	27 November	New Zealand	Millennium Stadium, Cardiff	25–37		Matthew Rees	9th
2011
33	4 February	England	Millennium Stadium, Cardiff	19–26	Six Nations Championship	Matthew Rees	9th
34	12 February	Scotland	Murrayfield Stadium, Edinburgh	24–6			8th
35	26 February	Italy	Stadio Flaminio, Rome	24–16			7th
36	12 March	Ireland	Millennium Stadium, Cardiff	19–13			7th
37	19 March	France	Stade de France, Saint-Denis	9–28			7th
38	4 June	Barbarians	Millennium Stadium, Cardiff	28–31	2011 RWC Warm-ups	Sam Warburton	7th
39	6 August	England	Twickenham, London	19–23			7th
40	13 August		Millennium Stadium, Cardiff	19–9			7th
41	20 August	Argentina	Millennium Stadium, Cardiff	28–13		Martyn Williams	6th
42	11 September	South Africa	Westpac Stadium, Wellington	16–17	2011 Rugby World Cup	Sam Warburton	6th
43	18 September	Samoa	Waikato Stadium, Hamilton	17–10			7th
44	26 September	Namibia	Stadium Taranaki, New Plymouth	81–7			7th
45	2 October	Fiji	Waikato Stadium, Hamilton	66–0			6th
46	8 October	Ireland	Westpac Stadium, Wellington	22–10			4th
47	15 October	France	Eden Park, Auckland	8–9			6th
48	21 October	Australia	Eden Park, Auckland	18–21		Gethin Jenkins	8th
49	3 December	Australia	Millennium Stadium, Cardiff	18–24	Autumn international	Sam Warburton	8th
2012
50	5 February	Ireland	Aviva Stadium, Dublin	23–21	Six Nations Championship	Sam Warburton	6th
51	12 February	Scotland	Millennium Stadium, Cardiff	27–13		Ryan Jones	6th
52	25 February	England	Twickenham, London	19–12		Sam Warburton	5th
53	10 March	Italy	Millennium Stadium, Cardiff	24–3		Gethin Jenkins	5th
54	17 March	France	Millennium Stadium, Cardiff	16–9		Sam Warburton	5th
55	24 November	New Zealand	Millennium Stadium, Cardiff	10–33	Autumn internationals	Sam Warburton	7th
56	1 December	Australia	Millennium Stadium, Cardiff	12–14			9th
2013
57	9 November	South Africa	Millennium Stadium, Cardiff	15–24	Autumn internationals	Sam Warburton	7th
58	16 November	Argentina	Millennium Stadium, Cardiff	40–6			6th
59	22 November	Tonga	Millennium Stadium, Cardiff	17–7		Ryan Jones	5th
60	30 November	Australia	Millennium Stadium, Cardiff	26–30		Sam Warburton	6th
2014
61	1 February	Italy	Millennium Stadium, Cardiff	23–15	Six Nations Championship	Alun-Wyn Jones	6th
62	8 February	Ireland	Aviva Stadium, Dublin	3–26		Sam Warburton	7th
63	21 February	France	Millennium Stadium, Cardiff	27–6			6th
64	9 March	England	Twickenham, London	18–29			7th
65	15 March	Scotland	Millennium Stadium, Cardiff	51–3			6th
66	14 June	South Africa	Growthpoint Kings Park, Durban	16–38	South African Test Series	Alun-Wyn Jones	6th
67	21 June		Mbombela Stadium, Nelspruit	30–31			6th
68	8 November	Australia	Millennium Stadium, Cardiff	28–33	Autumn internationals	Sam Warburton	7th
69	15 November	Fiji	Millennium Stadium, Cardiff	17–13		Gethin Jenkins	7th
70	22 November	New Zealand	Millennium Stadium, Cardiff	16–34		Sam Warburton	6th
71	29 November	South Africa	Millennium Stadium, Cardiff	12–6			6th
2015
72	6 February	England	Millennium Stadium, Cardiff	16–21	Six Nations Championship	Sam Warburton	6th
73	15 February	Scotland	BT Murrayfield, Edinburgh	26–23			6th
74	28 February	France	Stade de France, Saint-Denis	20–13			6th
75	14 March	Ireland	Millennium Stadium, Cardiff	23–16			5th
76	21 March	Italy	Stadio Olimpico, Rome	61–20			5th
77	8 August	Ireland	Millennium Stadium, Cardiff		2015 RWC Warm-ups
78	29 August		Aviva Stadium, Dublin
79	5 September	Italy	Millennium Stadium, Cardiff
80	20 September	Uruguay	Millennium Stadium, Cardiff		2015 Rugby World Cup
81	26 September	England	Twickenham, London
82	1 October	Fiji	Millennium Stadium, Cardiff
83	10 October	Australia	Twickenham, London

Honors

• Six Nations Championship
  • Winners: 2008, 2012, 2013

• Grand Slam
  • Winners: 2008, 2012

• Triple Crown
  • Winners: 2008, 2012

• James Bevan Trophy
  • Winners: 2008
  • Runners-up: 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014

• Prince William Cup
  • Winners: Nov 2014
  • Runners-up: June 2008, Nov 2008, June 2010, Nov 2010, 2013, June 2014

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British and Irish Lions

Overview

Note: Only international tests nations are listed below.

Opponent	Played	Won	Drew	Lost	Win ratio (%)	For	Against
Australia	3	2	0	1	66.67%	79	53
TOTAL	3	2	0	1	66.67%	79	53

International Matches as Head Coach

Matches (2013)
Matches	Date	Opposition	Venue	Score (Lions–Opponent)	Captain
2013 British and Irish Lions tour to Australia
1	1 June	Barbarians	Hong Kong Stadium, Hong Kong	59–8	Paul O'Connell
2	5 June	Western Force	Patersons Stadium, Perth	69–17	Brian O'Driscoll
3	8 June	Queensland Reds	Suncorp Stadium, Brisbane	22–12	Sam Warburton
4	11 June	Combined NSW-QLD Country	Hunter Stadium, Newcastle	64–0	Brian O'Driscoll
5	15 June	New South Wales Waratahs	Sydney Football Stadium, Sydney	47–17	Sam Warburton
6	18 June	Brumbies	Canberra Stadium, Canberra	12–14	Rory Best
7*	22 June	Australia	Suncorp Stadium, Brisbane	23–21	Sam Warburton
8	22 June	Melbourne Rebels	AAMI Park, Melbourne	35–0	Dan Lydiate
9*	29 June	Australia	Etihad Stadium, Melbourne	15–16	Sam Warburton
10*	6 July	Australia	ANZ Stadium, Syndey	41–16	Alun Wyn Jones

Honors

• Tom Richards Cup
  • Winners: 2013

• BBC Sports Personality of the Year Coach Award
  • Winner: 2013^[16]

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Club honors

London Wasps

• Zurich Premiership
  • Winners: 2002–03, 2003–04, 2004–05

• Heineken Cup
  • Winners: 2003–04

• European Challenge Cup
  • Winners: 2002–03

Waikato

• Air New Zealand Cup
  • Winners: 2006

Outside rugby

In 2012 Gatland made a cameo appearance as himself in an episode of the UK TV comedy drama Stella.

References

External links

• Wales profile
• Lions profile
• ESPN Profile
• Warren Gatland at AllBlacks.com
• Collected news and articles at Guardian

Sporting positions
Preceded by Brian Ashton	Irish national rugby coach 1998–2001	Succeeded by Eddie O'Sullivan
Preceded by Nigel Davies	Welsh national rugby coach 2007 – present	Succeeded by Incumbent

Ireland squad – 1999 Rugby World Cup Forwards Brennan Casey Clohessy Corkery Corrigan Davidson Dawson Fitzpatrick Johns McKeen Miller Nesdale O'Cuinneagain O'Kelly Wallace Ward Wood Backs Bell Bishop Dempsey Elwood Humphreys Maggs Mostyn Mullins O'Driscoll O'Meara O'Shea Tierney Topping Coach Gatland

Wales squad – 2011 Rugby World Cup Fourth Place Forwards Bennett Bevington Burns Charteris B. Davies Faletau James Jenkins A. Jones A.W. Jones R. Jones Lydiate Mitchell Owens Powell Warburton (c) Backs Brew Byrne J. Davies Halfpenny Hook S. Jones Knoyle North Phillips Priestland Roberts L. Williams Scott Williams Shane Williams Coach Gatland

British and Irish Lions – 2009 South Africa tour Forwards Heaslip (Ireland) Powell (Wales) Wallace (Ireland) Ferris (Ireland) Quinlan (Ireland)(Selected but ruled out by ban) Worsley (England) M Williams (Wales) A W Jones (Wales) O'Connell (Captain) (Ireland) O'Callaghan (Ireland) Shaw (England) Hines (Scotland) Jenkins (Wales) A R Jones (Wales) Sheridan (England) Vickery (England) Murray (Scotland) Flannery (Ireland)(Selected but ruled out by injury) Mears (England) Rees (Wales) Croft (England) Ford (Scotland) Hayes (Ireland) Payne (England) Backs Byrne (Wales) Kearney (Ireland) S Williams (Wales) Halfpenny (Wales)(Selected but ruled out by injury) Monye (England) Fitzgerald (Ireland) Bowe (Ireland) Shanklin (Wales)(Selected but ruled out by injury) Roberts (Wales) O'Driscoll (Ireland) D'Arcy (Ireland) Earls (Ireland) Flutey (England) O'Gara (Ireland) S Jones (Wales) Phillips (Wales) Ellis (England) O'Leary (Ireland)(Selected but ruled out by injury) Blair (Scotland) Hook (Wales) Coach McGeechan (plus Gatland, Edwards and Howley)

British and Irish Lions – 2013 Australia tour Forwards Rory Best (Ireland) (Replaced D.Hartley) Dylan Hartley (England) (Ruled out by suspension) Richard Hibbard (Wales) Tom Youngs (England) Dan Cole (England) Alex Corbisiero (England) (Replaced C.Healy) Tom Court (Ireland) (Called up as injury cover) Ryan Grant (Scotland) (Replaced G.Jenkins) Cian Healy (Ireland) (Ruled out by injury) Gethin Jenkins (Wales) (Ruled out by injury) Adam Jones (Wales) Matt Stevens (England) Mako Vunipola (England) Ian Evans (Wales) Richie Gray (Scotland) Alun Wyn Jones (Wales) Paul O'Connell (Ireland) (Ruled out by injury) Geoff Parling (England) Tom Croft (England) Dan Lydiate (Wales) Sean O'Brien (Ireland) Justin Tipuric (Wales) Sam Warburton (C) (Wales) Taulupe Faletau (Wales) Jamie Heaslip (Ireland) Backs Conor Murray (Ireland) Mike Phillips (Wales) Ben Youngs (England) Owen Farrell (England) Jonathan Sexton (Ireland) Brad Barritt (England) (Called up as injury cover) Jonathan Davies (Wales) Brian O'Driscoll (Ireland) Jamie Roberts (Wales) Manu Tuilagi (England) Billy Twelvetrees (England) (Called up as injury cover) Tommy Bowe (Ireland) Alex Cuthbert (Wales) Sean Maitland (Scotland) George North (Wales) Christian Wade (England) (Called up as injury cover) Shane Williams (Wales (Called up as injury cover) Simon Zebo (Ireland) (Called up as injury cover) Leigh Halfpenny (Wales) Stuart Hogg (Scotland) Rob Kearney (Ireland) Coach Warren Gatland (plus Rob Howley, Andy Farrell, Graham Rowntree and Neil Jenkins)