Sofia Bekir Fuente

About Sofia
DOB 02/06/2000
Born Ovideo, Spain
Height 5ft 7ins / 1.70m
Weight 12st 8lbs / 80kg

Position Hooker
Total Appearances
Total Tries
Total Points
Previous Club CRAT A Coruña

Multi-national hooker Sofia Bekir Fuente has signed to Exeter Chiefs Women ahead of the 2025/26 next season. Born in Ovideo, Spain, Bekir Fuente also qualifies to play for England and Australia.

She represented Western Force Women between 2022 and 2024 while playing her club rugby for Cottesloe Rugby Union Football Club where she was named Players’ Player in 2022 and Club Person of the Year in 2023. Her most recent club is CRAT (Club de Rugby Arquitectura Técnica) A Coruña in Spain.

A latecomer to the sport, Bekir Fuente only started playing in 2021, but she translated her power and athleticism from water polo and rowing to the rugby field helping Cottesloe win the top title in RugbyWA’s women’s programme in her first season.

This will not be her first time playing in the UK. Bekir Fuente played for North Bristol in 2024 seeing them become South West 2 champions. She they reached out to Molly Saunders’ business Sport Exchange, resulting in a conversation with Chiefs head coach Susie Appleby. 

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