Position: Half-back

Date of birth: 31/10/1994

Heritage number: 1174

Previous club: Canberra Raiders

Representative honours: England, Great Britain

Warrington debut: vs Leeds Rhinos (A), scrum-half, Warrington won 27-26 on 01/08/21

Honours

Super League: 2016 and 2018 (with Wigan)

World Club Challenge: 2017 (with Wigan)

George Williams is the England captain and the inspiration behind many of Warrington’s best performances.

Wigan-born Williams played for the Ince Rose Bridge and St Pat’s junior teams before joining the Warriors scholarship programme in 2011.

By 2014, he was a first-team regular and was rewarded with a four-year contract that May. In 2015, he was the Super League Young Player of the Year.

At the DW Stadium, he made 179 appearances, scoring 60 tries and kicking 70 goals and one drop goal and winning the Grand Final in 2016 and 2018 and the World Club Challenge in 2017.

In 2019, he was selected for the Great Britain tour of Tonga, New Zealand and Papua New Guinea.

In July 2019, Williams signed for Canberra Raiders on a three-year deal from 2020. He made a big success of the move before asking to be released from his contract in May 2021 so that he could return home.

Warrington snapped him up in July 2021 on a three-and-a-half-year deal and he marked his debut at Leeds by kicking a last-minute, match-winning drop goal in a 27-26 victory.

In 2023, he signed a two-year extension to his contract until November 2026.

He was named England captain in April 2023 and scored a hat-trick in a man-of-the-match display against France at the Halliwell Jones.