the club has decided to continue to recognise those who have caps for their country on Gloucester Rugby Premiership jerseys – as has been the case since 2015. “Kirill’s national flag will ...

Gotovtsev joined Gloucester in 2021 ... Kirill's blessing" to “support World Rugby’s 2022 sanction regarding the conflict in Ukraine.” “Kirill’s national flag will not appear on his ...

Gloucester Rugby has been forced to remove a Russian flag from the shirt of one of their players after a complaint from a fan. The Cherry and Whites have operated a policy, since 2015, of rewarding ...

while the country was also banned from qualifying for the 2023 Rugby World Cup. Gloucester have featured the international flags of players who have been capped at Test level since 2015.

"We remain entirely supportive of World Rugby's 2022 sanction regarding ... Kirill Gotovtsev has had a Russian flag on his shirt since he joined Gloucester in 2021 The back of Gotovtsev's shirt ...

World Rugby also banned Russia from qualifying ... permitted to wear a small emblem of the country’s flag just below his neckline. Gloucester have a policy of putting a country’s flag on ...