It was way back in October 2018 when Northampton Saints supporters caught their first glimpse of Fraser Dingwall in senior rugby, when he debuted from the bench against Leicester Tigers as a teenager.
He would go on to feature 12 times that season before making 23 outings during the 2019/20 campaign, a term that ended with him winning the Club’s Young Player of the Season award and being nominated for Premiership Rugby Cup’s Breakthrough Player award.
The trajectory of progress was a steep one after first joining Saints’ Academy as a 14-year-old. The Bedford School graduate signed his first full-time Northampton contract in 2017 and gained international honours with Scotland, before switching to England at Under-18s and Under-20s level – for the latter he held the captaincy at the 2019 Six Nations and World Rugby Championship in Argentina.
Senior honours seemed destined to follow and that journey began when Dingwall was called into England’s training squad ahead of the 2020 Six Nations and Autumn Nations Cup. After numerous camp involvements, Dingwall gained his first cap in the 2024 Six Nations against Italy, then followed that with a maiden Test try against Wales a week later at Twickenham. He featured against the same two sides in the 2025 tournament, too.
The centre has been a model of consistency for the men in Black, Green and Gold, clocking up 20-plus appearances for three successive seasons, peaking with 25 outings in 2021/22, followed by just one fewer in 2022/23 when he won the Supporters’ Player of the Season award, and the Try of the Season award for his spectacular effort against Gloucester.
Dingwall was also a pivotal member of the Premiership-winning campaign in 2023/24, featuring in 16 of Saints’ 20 league and knock-out games, and has captained Northampton on numerous occasions – including the Champions Cup Final in 2024/25.
