Luke Burgess (rugby union)

Luke Burgess
Full name	Luke Burgess
Date of birth	20 August 1983 (age 40)
Place of birth	Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia
Height	179 cm (5 ft 10 in)
Weight	89 kg (14 st 0 lb; 196 lb)
School	St Joseph's College, Hunters Hill
Rugby union career
Position(s)
Position(s)	Scrum-half
Current team	Rebels
Senior career
Years	Team
2003–07	Brumbies
2007	Melbourne Rebels (ARC)
2008–11	Waratahs
2011–13	Stade Toulousain
2013–15	Rebels
2014	Melbourne Rising
2015−16	Zebre
	Correct as of 14 June 2015
International career
Years	Team
2008–2015	Australia
	Correct as of 7 June 2013

Luke Burgess (born 20 August 1984) is a retired professional rugby union player. His usual position was scrum-half. He represented Australia on 37 occasions.

Early career

Burgess was born in Newcastle, Australia. ^{[citation needed]} He was educated at St Joseph's College, Hunters Hill.^[1] He played his club rugby with Sydney University Colts and Eastern Suburbs RUFC in Sydney.

Professional career

He played with the Brumbies from 2003 to 2007, but due to the presence of Wallaby captain George Gregan, he only made two appearances for the team, making his Super 12 debut in 2005.^[2] In 2007 he played for the Melbourne Rebels in the now defunct Australian Rugby Championship.

Burgess joined the NSW Waratahs in 2008, and made his first Super 14 appearance off the bench mid-year. Later that year he made his Test debut for the Wallabies against Ireland at the Telstra Dome, Melbourne. A knee injury kept him out of the 2008 Tri Nations Series, but he was selected for the Wallabies end 2008 Spring Tour.^{[citation needed]}

From 2011, Burgess played for Stade Toulousain in the Top 14 championship, France, making his debut in the Heineken Cup match against Gloucester.

He joined the Melbourne Rebels for the start of the 2014 Super Rugby season.^[3]^[4]^[5]

In 2015, he moved to Italy to play for Zebre and announced his retirement from professional rugby in May 2016.^[6]