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Tomás Appleton

Full name

Tomás Mourato Vermelho Mega Appleton

Date of birth

29 July 1993 (age 31)

Place of birth

Lisbon, Portugal

Height

1.82 m (6 ft 0 in)

Weight

95 kg (209 lb; 14 st 13 lb)

Rugby union career

Senior career
Position(s)	Centre, Fly-half
Current team	CDUL, Lusitanos XV
Years	Team	Apps	(Points)
2010–	CDUL		()
2015–2016	Darlington Mowden Park	17	(13)
2021–	Lusitanos XV	10	(10)
Correct as of 4 August 2023
International career
Years	Team	Apps	(Points)
2013	Portugal U20	2	(0)
2014–	Portugal	74	(80)
Correct as of 4 August 2023
National sevens team
Years	Team		Comps
2014–2019	Portugal		20
Correct as of 4 August 2023

Tomás Mourato Vermelho Mega Appleton (born 29 July 1993) is a Portuguese semi-professional rugby union player who plays as a centre for Lusitanos XV and captains the Portugal national team.^[1] He is also a qualified and practising dentist.^[2]

Club career

He has played for CDUL since he was 6 years old, and was promoted to the first team in 2011/12. He won the Campeonato Português de Rugby with them in 2011/12, 2013/14 and 2016/17. He spent a season in England at Darlington Mowden Park, in National League One in 2015/16, returning to CDUL afterwards.^[3]^[4]

International career

He has won 48 caps for Portugal, scoring 10 tries, 50 points on aggregate. He won his first cap at the 29–20 victory over Namibia, on 22 November 2014, in Lisbon. He has been a regular player for the "Lobos" ever since then. He played in the 2019 Rugby World Cup qualification tournament. He is currently the captain of the national team.^[5]

References

^ world.rugby. "Portugal's Tomás Appleton: Running rugby is in our DNA | Rugby World Cup". www.rugbyworldcup.com. Retrieved 2023-04-24.
^ Portugal's fallen heroes face very different reception
^ Entrevista - Tomás Appleton, CDUL Official Website, 14 February 2020 (Portuguese)
^ Tomás Appleton. A Revelação em Inglaterra, A Bola, 19 October 2015 (Portuguese)
^ Tomás Appleton International Statistics

External links

Tomás Appleton at ESPNscrum
Tomás Appleton at ItsRugby.co.uk

v t e Portugal squad – 2023 Rugby World Cup
Forwards	Alves M. Bello Bruno Campergue Cerqueira Costa De Freitas Diniz Fernandes Hasse Ferreira Granate Machado Santos Madeira Martins Picão Simões Tadjer Torgal Wallis
Backs	Appleton (c) J. Bello Bento Bettencourt Cardoso Pinto Lima Lucas Marques Marta Moura Pinto Portela Sousa Guedes Storti
Head coach: Patrice Lagisquet

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