Gallagher Premiership Rugby: Danny Care confirms he will extend Harlequins contract for 2025/26 season

Harlequins scrum-half Danny Care is set to remain at the club for the 2025/26 season after confirming he will extend his contract for another year. The 38-year-old has made a record 386 appearances in Quins colours and lifted two Gallagher Premiership titles since joining in 2006. Care earned 101 caps for England and retired from international duty after the 2024 Six Nations.

Harlequins’ Danny Care during the Gallagher Premiership Rugby match between Harlequins and Newcastle Falcons at The Stoop on September 28, 2024 in London, England.

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Danny Care has revealed he will be at Harlequins for the 2025/26 Gallagher Premiership campaign in what will be his 20th season at the club.

The former England scrum-half, who earned 101 caps for his country, joined Harlequins in 2006 and has lifted the Premiership title twice.

He retired from international rugby after the 2024 Six Nations but signed a new one-year deal with Quins in May of last year.

The 38-year-old has made a record 386 appearances for the club and has confirmed he wants to continue playing while he’s still enjoying it.

“I will be at Harlequins next season,” Care said on the BBC’s Rugby Union Weekly podcast. “I ain’t leaving – I love it too much, I can’t give it up yet.

“Hopefully a few Quins fans will be happy with that.

“That game [the 34-34 draw against Leicester in December’s ‘Big Game’] probably reminded me again just how lucky I am, fortunate, to still play this game we love and to still play for the club that I love.”

Care made his first Premiership start in a Harlequins jersey in January 2007 and was part of the squad that tasted domestic success in 2011/12 and 2020/21.

Quins have managed just four wins in 10 this season and currently sit seventh in the table, six points outside the play-off places.

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They arrested a run of three games without a Premiership win with an impressive 38-14 victory away to Newcastle Falcons last time out.

Quins face Toulon and Glasgow Warriors in the Champions Cup next before returning to domestic action against Northampton Saints on January 24, live on TNT Sports and discovery+.

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