Shaun Knight

{{Short description|English rugby union player}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2021}}

{{Use British English|date=November 2012}}

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| relatives = Ciaran Knight (cousin)

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| ru_currentteam = Rouen

| ru_position = Prop

| years1 = 2010–2015

| years2 = 2011

| years3 = 2015–2016

| years4 = 2016–2018

| years5 = 2018–2020

| years6 = 2020–

| clubs1 = Gloucester Rugby

| clubs2 = → Edinburgh

| clubs3 = Newport Gwent Dragons

| clubs4 = Bath

| clubs5 = Rouen

| clubs6 = Hartpury University

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Shaun Knight (born 19 February 1990) is an English rugby union player, currently playing for Hartpury University. He plays as a prop.

Knight played for Matson, Gloucester, and as a dual-registered player for Moseley Rugby Football Club and Cinderford RFC.

He was a member of England's 2009 and 2010 Junior World Cup squads and he spent July to October 2010 with Counties Manukau in New Zealand as part of their wider ITM Cup squad.

In July 2015 Knight joined the Welsh regional team Newport Gwent Dragons.{{cite news|url=http://www.southwalesargus.co.uk/sport/13363110.Dragons_snap_up_Gloucester_prop_Shaun_Knight/|publisher=South Wales Argus|title=Gloucester tight-head prop Shaun Knight signs for Newport Gwent Dragons|date=24 July 2015}}

In September 2016 he joined Bath for the remainder of the 2016–17 season,{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/37483454|title=Bath: Centre Robbie Fruean & prop Shaun Knight join Premiership club|date=2016-09-27|publisher=BBC Sport|language=en-GB|access-date=2016-09-29}} which became a permanent deal until the end of the 2017–18 season.{{cite news|url=http://www.southwalesargus.co.uk/sport/15122758.Dragons_prop_Knight_pens_permanent_Bath_deal/|publisher=South Wales Argus|title=Newport tight-head prop Shaun Knight signs permanent deal with Bath|date=5 March 2017|access-date=5 March 2017}}

On 28 May 2018, he left Bath to travel to France to join Rouen in the third division Federale 1, linking up with their head coach Richard Hill.{{cite news|url=https://www.somersetlive.co.uk/sport/other-sport/shaun-knight-joins-richard-hills-1616924|publisher=Somerset Live|title=Shaun Knight joins Richard Hill's French revolution after leaving Bath Rugby|date=28 May 2018|access-date=11 September 2019}}

On 27 April 2020, Knight returned to Gloucester, England to sign for Hartpury University in the RFU Championship from the 2020–21 season.{{cite news|url=https://www.gloucestershirelive.co.uk/sport/rugby/former-gloucester-rugby-prop-shaun-4083202|publisher=Gloucestershire Live|title=Former Gloucester Rugby prop Shaun Knight to join Hartpury RFC|date=27 April 2020|access-date=7 September 2020}}