Baxter extends contract at Chiefs

Thursday, 2 April 2026 16:32

By Brad Hardware

It's a multi-year deal

Rob Baxter has extended his contract as director of rugby at Exeter Chiefs.

The 55-year-old has been at the helm since taking on the role of head coach in 2009. As a player, he added more than 10 tropies to the club's cabinet, including two PREM titles and an Investec Champions Cup.

Exeter Rugby Club's CEO and chairman Tony Rowe said: "Rob has been front and centre of the growth of this club having helped build its foundations as a player. He is an Exeter Chiefs man through and through and has led us through some of our most memorable moments.

“He has also built a new coaching team and a young squad that are already keen and able to compete at the top level. It will be exciting to see where he can take them in the next few years.”

Baxter captained the first team for 10 years, making 312 appearances before retiring from paying in 2005.

He said: “I’m delighted to have signed a contract extension. I’ve been involved here a long time, had some fantastic experiences and some tough ones along the way too, though thankfully those have been few and far between.

“To have the club be happy to extend my time here makes me proud. The key thing for me is how excited I am and how enthused I am to work with the current crop of players we have here at Chiefs as well as the players we’ve already signed for next season, the young academy players coming through our pathway, and the group of coaches.

“I can really see a bright future for the club. I genuinely feel we’re going to be a club challenging others at the right end of the PREM and hopefully we’ll grow into a team who battles it out in the latter stages of European competition in the future too.

“That is certainly my aim, and I know the club are very ambitious in what they still want to achieve. Hopefully things align and we go on to achieve great things.”

Baxter extends contract at Chiefs

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