{{short description|English rugby union footballer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2025}} {{Use British English|date=September 2016}} <!--- Don't mess with this line! ---> <!--- Write your article below this line ---> {{Infobox rugby biography | name = Nick Auterac | image = Auterac-Nick.jpg | caption = Auterac in 2019 | birth_name = Nick Auterac | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1992|11|12|df=y}} | birth_place = Westminster, England | height = {{convert|1.82|m|ftin|abbr=on}} | weight = {{convert|120|kg|lb stlb|abbr=on}} | school = Mill Hill School | position = Prop | amatyears1 = | amatteam1 = | ru_amupdate = | clubs1 = Saracens | clubs2 = → London Scottish | clubs3 = → Bedford Blues | clubs4 = Bath | clubs5 = Harlequins | clubs6 = Northampton Saints | clubs7 = Edinburgh Rugby | apps1 = 18 | apps2 = 8 | apps3 = 9 | apps4 = 80 | apps5 = 23 | apps6 = 30 | apps7 = 4 | points1 = 0 | points2 = 0 | points3 = 5 | points4 = 15 | points5 = 0 | points6 = 5 | points7 = 0 | years1 = 2011–2014 | years2 = 2011–2012 | years3 = 2013–2014 | years4 = 2014–2018 | years5 = 2018–2020 | years6 = 2020–2022 | years7 = 2022–2023 | ru_clubupdate = 26 April 2023 | repteam1 = England U20 | repyears1 = 2012 | repcaps1 = 2 | reppoints1 = 0 | ru_ntupdate = }}
'''Nick Auterac''' (born 12 November 1992) is an English former rugby union player who played as a prop.
==Club career== Auterac is a Saracens academy graduate. His lack of first team appearances at Saracens between 2011 and 2014 contributed to a 2014 move to Bath.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/25858889|work=BBC Sport|title=Bath sign Sale's Henry Thomas and Saracens' Nick Auterac|date=23 January 2014|accessdate=1 December 2025}}</ref> He was a regular starter in Bath's successful 2014–15 Premiership Rugby season. Bath reached the league playoff final before being defeated by Auterac's former side Saracens.<ref name="prem">{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/32883783|title=Premiership final: Bath 16-28 Saracens|first=Nabil|last=Hassan|work=BBC Sport|date=30 May 2015|access-date=1 December 2025}}</ref>
On 14 November 2018 it was revealed that Auterac had agreed terms with Harlequins.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rugbypass.com/news/bath-prop-auterac-set-leave-premiership-rivals|website=RugbyPass|accessdate=21 April 2018|title=Bath prop Auterac set to leave for Premiership rivals|first=Alex|last=Shaw|date=14 November 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.talkingrugbyunion.co.uk/nick-auterac-to-join-harlequins-at-end-of-season/20005.htm|title=Nick Auterac to join Harlequins at end of season|work=Talking Rugby Union|date=16 March 2018|access-date=21 April 2018}}</ref> Auterac went on to make his Quins debut in a Premiership Rugby Cup game against former club, Bath, in late October 2018.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.premiershiprugby.com/report/match-report-bath-rugby-19-27-harlequins/ |title=Match Report: Bath Rugby 19-27 Harlequins|work=Premiership Rugby|date=27 October 2018}}</ref>
On 21 January 2020, Auterac signed for Premiership rivals Northampton Saints from the 2020–21 season.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.northamptonchron.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/saints-sign-harlequins-prop-1371212|website=Northampton Chronicle|accessdate=23 May 2020|title=Saints sign Harlequins prop|first=Tom|last=Vickers|date=21 January 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/51192849|work=BBC Sport|title=Nick Auterac: Northampton Saints agree deal to sign Harlequins prop|date=21 January 2020|accessdate=1 December 2025}}</ref> In his first season at the club he played in the EPCR Challenge Cup quarter-final defeat against Ulster.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/56663098|title=European Challenge Cup: Northampton Saints 27-35 Ulster|first=James|last=Law|work=BBC Sport|date=10 April 2021|accessdate=1 December 2025}}</ref>
Auterac joined Edinburgh for the 2022–23 United Rugby Championship.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/62928421|title=New United Rugby Championship season beckons for Glasgow Warriors & Edinburgh|first=George|last=O'Neill|work=BBC Sport|date=16 September 2022|accessdate=1 December 2025}}</ref> After making only four appearances it was announced in April 2023 he would leave.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/65215024|work=BBC Sport|title=Edinburgh: Damien Hoyland, Jaco van der Walt, Henry Pyrgos, Nick Haining to leave|date=7 April 2023|accessdate=1 December 2025}}</ref> Auterac subsequently retired from the sport and became a chef.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/rugby-union/2025/06/17/auterac-i-quit-professional-rugby-to-become-chef/|url-access=subscription|title=Nick Auterac quit rugby... to become a chef|first=Charles|last=Richardson|website=The Daily Telegraph|date=17 June 2025|accessdate=1 December 2025}}</ref>
== International career == Auterac was a member of the England under-20 side that won the 2012 Six Nations Under 20s Championship.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/17137583|work=BBC Sport|title=Under 20s Six Nations: England U20 40-9 Wales U20|date=24 February 2012|accessdate=1 December 2025}}</ref>
Auterac qualified to represent Scotland due to his maternal grandmother and in June 2021 he was called up to the Scotland squad for Summer internationals.<ref name="ts">{{cite news |url=https://www.scotsman.com/sport/rugby-union/nick-auterac-edinburgh-rugbys-new-prop-is-tech-house-loving-foodie-and-wannabe-bagpiper-3823301|title=Nick Auterac: Edinburgh Rugby’s new prop is tech house-loving foodie and wannabe bagpiper|first=Graham|last=Bean|work=The Scotsman|date=29 August 2022|access-date=1 December 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/57318490|work=BBC Sport|title=Scotland: Seventeen uncapped players in squad for summer Tests|date=1 June 2021|accessdate=1 June 2021}}</ref> All these fixtures were cancelled due to Covid and he remained uncapped.<ref name="ts"/>
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==External links== *[http://www.premiershiprugby.com/matchcentre/fixtures/squads.php?player=98044&includeref=dynamic Premiership Rugby Profile] *[http://www.epcrugby.com/matchcentre/player_archive.php?player=103921&includeref=dynamic European Professional Club Rugby Profile]
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