News - AU Rugby
Ben Botica to leave Harlequins for Montpellier
PA Sport
May 4, 2016
© Steve Bardens/Getty Images for Harlequins

Harlequins have announced fly-half Ben Botica is to join French Top 14 club Montpellier.

Botica will move to Montpellier -- Quins' European Challenge Cup final opponents in Lyon on May 13 -- this summer as replacement for Toulon-bound Francois Trinh-Duc.

Botica, 26, joined Quins in 2012 and has made 93 appearances in which he has scored more than 500 points. Quins, on Tuesday, announced the signing of Wasps' Scotland international fly-half Ruaridh Jackson for next term.

"It was a very hard decision for me to leave Harlequins," Botica said. "The last four years, in terms of my development as a player, have been priceless. Being around such a great group, in playing ability and as people is something you can't buy.

"It's beginning to hit home how much I will miss this club and the people associated with it.

"I have been given a new and exciting challenge in France with Montpellier, but my immediate focus is to help Harlequins finish in the (Aviva Premiership) top six and win European silverware."

Quins scrum-half Tito Tebaldi, meanwhile, will join Italian Guinness PRO12 club Treviso, and lock Kieran Treadwell is heading to Ulster from the Twickenham Stoop.

© PA Sport

Live Sports

Communication error please reload the page.

ABOUT COOKIES

To help make this website better, to improve and personalize your experience and for advertising purposes, are you happy to accept cookies and other technologies.

More Info Here Cookie Choices