18 Facts About Sean Maitland

Sean Daniel Maitland was born on 14 September 1988 and is a New Zealand-born Scottish rugby union player.

Sean Maitland previously played for London Irish and before that for Glasgow Warriors in the PRO12, Crusaders in Super Rugby and Canterbury in the Mitre 10 Cup.

Sean Maitland attended Hamilton Boys' High School where he played in the first XV and competed in athletics, recording a personal best of 11.

Sean Maitland is half-Scottish and is of Samoan and Maori descent from his mother's side.

Sean Maitland is the cousin of New Zealand born, Australian rugby union player Quade Cooper.

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Sean Maitland spent 2005 and 2006 in the New Zealand Schools team and was a member of New Zealand under-19 World Cup winning side in 2007 and the New Zealand under-20 side in 2008 winning the IRB Junior World Championship.

Sean Maitland scored four tries against teams from Argentina, Ireland and Wales.

Sean Maitland debuted for Canterbury in 2006, and made his Super Rugby debut for the Crusaders against the ACT Brumbies in 2008 and played in every Crusaders match that year.

Sean Maitland joined Glasgow Warriors in 2012, and won his first cap for Scotland at the start of the 2013 Six Nations Championship.

Sean Maitland helped Saracens win the European Champions Cup in 2019, scoring a try in the final.

Sean Maitland had previously missed Saracens' victory in the 2017 European Champions Cup final through injury.

On 30 April 2013, Sean Maitland was announced in the British and Irish Lions squad for the tour of Australia later that year.

Sean Maitland was not selected in the team to play the Queensland Reds mid-week game, in which Cooper captained the Reds for the first time.

Sean Maitland played in the Rugby World Cup 2015, in which Scotland reached the quarter-finals.

Sean Maitland was controversially sin binned for a supposed deliberate knock-on in the quarter-finals.

On Maitland's maternal grandfather's side, Sean is closely related to 'Smoking Joe' Stanley of New Zealand All Black fame in the mid 1980s–1990 on his Samoan side.

In 2009, Sean Maitland was a finalist in the Cleo New Zealand Bachelor of the Year competition.

In October 2020 Sean Maitland was charged by the RFU for “conduct prejudicial to the interests of the Union” for breaking COVID-19 regulations whilst on duty with the Barbarians.