# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mathew-tait
# Generated: 2026-08-13T15:58:00.704Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mathew-tait"
name: "Mathew Tait"
slug: "mathew-tait"
description: "Mathew James Murray Tait is a retired English rugby union player who gained 38 caps for England between 2005–2010, including starting in the 2007 Rugby World Cup Final; and played 279 club games for Newcastle Falcons, Sale Sharks and Leicester Tigers between 2004 and 2018. He was considered a utility back regularly playing at centre, fullback or wing. Tait made his Newcastle debut in 2004 and made his England debut at 18 years old in 2005, at the time the second youngest England player selected since the Second World War. He played 87 times for Newcastle before joining Sale in 2008 where he played 49 times. Tait joined Leicester in 2011 and made 143 appearances between his 2011 debut and retirement. While at Leicester Tait started the 2013 Premiership Rugby Final which Leicester won as well as the 2017 Anglo-Welsh Cup Final, which Leicester also won. His final game was on 5 May 2018 against former club Sale."
tagline: "English rugby union footballer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Matthew_Tait_Is_Not_A_Happy_Bunny.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Footballers"
  slug: "footballers"
profileType:
  name: "Football / Soccer Player"
  slug: "footballer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q937857"
birthDate: "1986-02-06"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           41.08
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.682182666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathew_Tait"
    title: "Mathew Tait"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathew_Tait"
    title: "Mathew Tait"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathew_Tait"
    title: "Mathew Tait"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B5%D1%82%D1%98%D1%83_%D0%A2%D0%B5%D1%98%D1%82"
    title: "Метју Тејт"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathew_Tait"
    title: "Mathew Tait"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathew_Tait"
    title: "Mathew Tait"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q433780"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump