Kelly Brazier

Kelly Brazier
Brazier in 2016
Born (1989-10-28) 28 October 1989
Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand
Height170 cm (5 ft 7 in)
Weight70 kg (154 lb)
SchoolOtago Girls' High School
Otago Polytechnic
OccupationProfessional rugby player
Rugby union career
Position(s) Second five-eighth, First five-eighth
Amateur team(s)
Years Team Apps (Points)
2003–2010 Alhambra Union (0)
2011– Clanswomen (0)
Provincial / State sides
Years Team Apps (Points)
2004–2010 Otago 22 (162)
2011 Canterbury 5 (67)
2012–2016 Otago 22 (162)
2017– Bay of Plenty 8 (64)
Super Rugby
Years Team Apps (Points)
2022; 2025 Chiefs Manawa 8 (29)
International career
Years Team Apps (Points)
2009–25 New Zealand 44 (195)
National sevens team
Years Team Comps
2013–25 New Zealand 224 apps
Coaching career
Years Team
2023 Brave Louve (7s)
Medal record
Representing  New Zealand
Women's rugby union
Women's Rugby World Cup
2010 England Team competition
2017 Ireland Team competition
2025 England Team competition
Women's rugby sevens
Olympic Games
2016 Rio de Janeiro Team competition
2020 Tokyo Team competition
Commonwealth Games
2018 Gold Coast Team competition
2022 Birmingham Team competition
Rugby World Cup Sevens
2013 Moscow Team competition
2018 San Francisco Team competition
2022 Cape Town Team competition

Kelly Brazier (born 28 October 1989) is a New Zealand rugby union coach and former player. She has played flyhalf, centre and fullback for the Black Ferns, New Zealand's women's national rugby team, and has competed at four Rugby World Cups in 2010, 2014, 2017 and 2025. She has represented Otago, Canterbury and the Bay of Plenty in the Farah Palmer Cup.

Brazier has also represented the Black Ferns sevens team in the Olympic Games, the Rugby World Cup Sevens, the Women's Sevens Series, and the Commonwealth Games. She has won gold medals in every major sevens tournaments. Brazier was the first player, of either sex, to have won two sevens World Cups and two fifteen=a-side World Cups.