Scotland has named the 37-player squad that will travel to Ottawa this summer to take on Canada’s Men’s Rugby Team on July 6 at TD Place, which includes world-class players such as James Ritchie, Huw Jones and Duhan van der Merwe. 

Scotland will bring a strong mix of veteran players and potential debutants, with 17 players from their 2024 Guinness Six Nations campaign, 13 players who competed in the 2023 Rugby World Cup, and 13 players from the 2023 Guinness Six Nations squad that was featured in Netflix’s Six Nations: Full Contact.  

This includes Duhan van der Merwe, who is just two tries away from breaking the all-time try scoring record for Scotland, and Huw Jones, an electric centre who has contributed to multiple milestone victories for Scotland since his debut in 2016. 

James Ritchie is one of several players on Scotland’s roster with a Canadian connection, as he earned his first cap for Scotland against Canada in 2018 in Edmonton. Now with 49 caps to his name, Ritchie could hit the half-century mark against Canada in July.  

Matt Fagerson debuted and scored for the Glasgow Warriors at 18 years old against Canada A in a pre-season match for the 2016-17 season, earning a call up to the Scottish squad in 2018. He has since made over 100 appearances for the Warriors and earned 44 caps for Scotland. 

Toronto-born Ewan Ashman lived in Canada until the age of four and has continued to make a name for himself throughout his career, leading the 2019 World Rugby U20 Championship in scoring and winning his first senior cap in 2021. He played his first Guiness Six Nations against Italy in 2023 before making three appearances at the 2023 Rugby World Cup. 

Canada and Scotland will compete for the Douglas JL Horn Memorial Cup, which was first played for in 2008 and is contested any time the two teams meet. The Douglas Horn Cup was sponsored by the late Alan Horn, a stalwart support of Canadian rugby and a titan in Canada’s communications industry, who named the trophy after his father and former Scottish rugby player, Douglas Horn. 

Scotland’s full announcement can be found here. 

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