Steffon Armitage (born 20 September 1985) is an English professional rugby union player who currently plays for French club Stade Niçois.

Born in San Fernando, Trinidad and Tobago in 1985,[1] Armitage grew up in the south of France, where he and his brothers played for Rugby Nice Côte d'Azur Université-Racing.

[13] In July 2012, Armitage was provisionally suspended for abnormal drug test results.,[14] but was cleared to play all the games of the new season with Toulon, both in the Top 14 and Heineken Cup.

Armitage has been considered to be one of the best players in the world due to his technical ability at the breakdown and his capacity to win a high number of turnovers each game.

On 9 July 2019, the San Diego Legion announced that Armitage would join them for the 2020 season in Major League Rugby in the United States,[29] but on 24 September 2019, the San Diego Legion announced it had released Armitage in the wake of his conviction for sexual assault and his suspended sentence, after he had groped a woman in 2018 in France.