Australia
New ZealandNew Zealand born, Australian raised centre Tautalatasi Tasi played in Major League Rugby between 2023-2025. He represented the Toronto Arrows (2023) and the Houston SaberCats (2024-2025).
Tasi has played both Rugby Union and Rugby League professionally, starting with league with his hometown Ipswich Jets in the Queensland Cup for the 2013/14 season before moving to the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs in NSW for 2014/15. He earned his NRL debut with the Rabbitohs in 2016 while also playing with the North Sydney Bears, before switching his focus to rugby union in 2018.
Having adapted to the union game, Tasi played with Brisbane City in the NRC in 2019 before signing with the Melbourne Rebels for the Super Rugby Pre-season, and earned his Super Rugby debut with the NSW Waratahs later that year. He moved to Japan in 2020 to play with the Sunwolves as well as Gordon in the Australian Shute Shield later in the year, claiming the Championship. Tasi returned to Japan to play with the Tokyo Gas before making the move to MLR.
Tasi signed with the Toronto Arrows for the 2023 MLR season and proved to be a standout performer. He racked up over 700m gained with ball in hand and completed 99 tackles in 10 appearances (8 starts) in his debut MLR season. In late November 2023, MLR and the Toronto Arrows announced that the Arrows would not compete in the 2024 MLR season and a week later, the Rugby New York Ironworkers announced that they would also not compete in 2024. It is unknown if Tasi opted into the subsequent dispersal draft but on 7th January 2024, the Houston SaberCats announced the signing of Tautalatasi Tasi ahead of the 2024 MLR season. If Tasi opted in to the Dispersal Draft, his 2024 salary would not count towards the SaberCats’ cap hit. Tasi scored 2 tries in 10 games (all starts) for the SaberCats as they finished with the best regular season record that season, on 14-2. Tasi started the SaberCats’ only playoff game of 2024, where they were stunned by their Texas rivals the Dallas Jackals.
On November 6th, 2024, the Houston SaberCats announced the return of Tautalatasi Tasi for the 2025 MLR season, his 3rd in the competition.
achievements
- MLR Team of the Week: 2024 – Rd 4
- MLR Team of the Week: 2023 – Rd 16
- MLR Team of the Week: 2023 – Rd 4