Luca Rees scores 100 tries in Premier Rugby and most tries in Premier rugby and UPDATED most tries list

A significant achievement was reached in Wellington club rugby on Saturday when Northern United No. 8 Luca Rees scored his 100th Premier try, and is our Performer of the Week on social media.

See below the graphic for an updated full list of men’s top try-scorers in Premier rugby in the Wellington competition in the modern era – qualification 50 or more tries.

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The following is current and updated to AFTER Round 13 /the end of the Swindale Shield on 28 June 2025: 

*Notes on the matches played column: An important point about the Matches Played column is that our website didn’t start to record reserves until 2016. From 2005-15 we just denoted the ‘Starting XV’ each week, (as originally, we were a PDF newsletter and there was only space for that) so this means that players on the list below whose careers started earlier than 2016 and who played some matches off the bench their additional ‘Matches Played’ won’t be counted. In these instances their tries still show and can be counted.

Notes on players in italics: Players whose careers started prior to 2005 and whose careers overlap into the first few years of our database can’t be counted in full here, because we don’t have their overall records. One or more of these players could well have scored a lot more tries than the leaders here. It is now our intention to go back further and collate the 1990s and earlier and update these tables accordingly.