Harry Thacker

{{Short description|English rugby union player}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2025}}

{{Use British English|date=September 2016}}

{{Infobox rugby biography

| name = Harry Thacker

| image = Harry Thacker 2023.jpg

| caption =

| birth_name = Harry Joseph Thacker

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1994|02|18|df=y}}

| birth_place = Leicester, England

| death_date =

| death_place =

| height = {{convert|1.74|m|ftin|abbr=on}}

| weight = {{convert|96|kg|stlb|abbr=on}}

| relatives = Daniel Thacker (brother)

Charlie Thacker (brother)

| position = Hooker/Flanker

| currentclub = Bristol Bears

| years1 = 2013–2018

| clubs1 = Leicester Tigers

| apps1 = 70

| points1 = 55

| years2 = 2018–Present

| clubs2 = Bristol Bears

| apps2 = 127

| points2 = 300

| clubupdate = 14 March 2023

| repyears1 = 2014

| repteam1 = England U-20

| repcaps1 = 5

| reppoints1 = 20

| school = Leicester Grammar School, Northumbria University

}}

Harry Joseph Thacker (born 18 February 1994) is an English rugby union player who plays for Bristol Bears in Premiership Rugby. He plays as a hooker.{{cite web |url= http://www.leicestertigers.com/rugby/leicester_tigers_senior_squad.php?player=97868&includeref=dynamic|title= Leicester Tigers Senior Squad – Harry Thacker |work=web page |publisher= Leicester Tigers |accessdate =13 October 2014}} Thacker made 70 appearances for Leicester Tigers between 2013–2018.

Thacker is the son of former Tigers hooker Troy Thacker.{{cite web |url= http://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/family-affair-charlie-thacker-targets-leicester/story-21941587-detail/story.html |title= Family affair as Charlie Thacker targets Leicester Tigers' first team |work= web page |publisher= Leicester Mercury |accessdate= 31 August 2016 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20140729001033/http://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/Family-affair-Charlie-Thacker-targets-Leicester/story-21941587-detail/story.html |archive-date= 29 July 2014 |url-status= dead }} He has a younger brother, Charlie, who was in the Tigers development squad,{{cite web |url= http://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/family-affair-charlie-thacker-targets-leicester/story-21941587-detail/story.html |title= Family affair as Charlie Thacker targets Leicester Tigers' first team |work= web page |publisher= Leicester Mercury |accessdate= 31 August 2016 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20140729001033/http://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/Family-affair-Charlie-Thacker-targets-Leicester/story-21941587-detail/story.html |archive-date= 29 July 2014 |url-status= dead }} and now plays for Nottingham in the RFU Championship.

On 20 January 2018, Thacker agreed to leave Leicester to join Bristol ahead of the 2018–19 season.{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/42760404|publisher=BBC Sport|title=Bristol: John Afoa and Harry Thacker among nine signings for next season|date=20 January 2018|accessdate=27 March 2018}}