Munster’s Jack Crowley has been named the United Rugby Championship Player’s Player of the Season for 2023-24, competition organisers announced on Thursday. The award comes a day after Munster boss Graham Rowntree was crowned BKT Coach of the Season after a vote by the 16-team league’s head coaches. Now Crowley has also received the recognition from his peers after the fly-half’s first full season as the province’s first-choice number 10, helping them to first place in the standings.
It is the second URC award for 2023-24 in as many weeks for Crowley with the now 24-year-old also named the Next-Gen Player of the Season, voted for by members of the media across all five nations, to recognise young up-and-coming talent who started the season aged 23 or under. The winner of the Players’ Player of the Season Award goes to..
. @MunsterRugby ’s Jack Crowley 💥 #URC | #URCAwards Crowley had made just seven starts at fly-half before April 1 last season but was handed the leading role in five of the final six games of the campaign as Munster marched to the URC title with a Grand Final win at the Stormers in Cape Town. This season has seen him continue his development in confident fashion and become Ireland’s first-choice 10 following the retirement of Johnny Sexton for a successful Six Nations title defence.
His URC campaign garnered two tries and 97 points in 12 starts as Munster reached the play-off semi-finals on the back of a 10-game winning run that also saw the .