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South West Africa: 24: 6: 31 July 1963: South West Stadium, Windhoek: Tour Match Western Transvaal: 14: 12: 3 August 1963: Olën Park, Potchefstroom: Tour Match Northern Universities: 9: 15: 6 August 1963: Ellis Park Stadium, Johannesburg: Tour Match South Africa: 9: 5: 10 August 1963: Newlands Stadium, Cape Town: Test Match: Eastern Province ...
The following is a list of stadiums in South Africa, ... Cape Town Stadium: 58,300: ... Western Cape: Eagles Rugby: 68: Makhulong Stadium: 10,000
Newlands Stadium, Cape Town 15–10 South Africa: 34 18 September 1976 Ellis Park Stadium, Johannesburg 15–14 South Africa: 35 15 August 1981 Lancaster Park, Christchurch 14–9 New Zealand: 1981 South Africa tour of New Zealand and the United States: 36 29 August 1981 Athletic Park, Wellington 12–24 South Africa: 37 12 September 1981
Ellis Park Stadium (known as Emirates Airline Park for sponsorship reasons) is a rugby union and association football stadium in Johannesburg, Gauteng Province, South Africa. It hosted the final of the 1995 Rugby World Cup , which was won by the country's national team, the Springboks .
Rugby union in South Africa is centrally administered by the South African Rugby Union, which consists of fourteen provincial unions – the Blue Bulls Rugby Union, the Boland Rugby Union, the Border Rugby Football Union, the Eastern Province Rugby Union, the Free State Rugby Union, the Golden Lions Rugby Union, the Griffons Rugby Union, the Griqualand West Rugby Union, the KwaZulu-Natal Rugby ...
FNB stadium is a multi-purpose venue and hosted its first rugby union match in 2010, the Tri Nations match between South Africa and New Zealand, won by the latter. The attendance was 94,713 which is listed as the third highest rugby attendance ever in the Southern Hemisphere and a record attendance for the redeveloped stadium, until it was ...
Early versions of rugby union trading cards came at the beginning of 20th century, when tobacco companies released their cigarette card series. The first collections consisted on black and white photographs of rugby players, such examples of this were series issued by Ogden and W.D. & H.O. Wills (both in 1902) and Taddy (1906).
South Africa's national team, known as Springbok Sevens, and also nicknamed "Blitzbokke", have become one of the sport's top national sides, as evidenced by their victory in the 2008–09 IRB Sevens World Series and recently in both 2016–2017 and 2017–18. Cape Town is scheduled to host the 2022 Rugby World Cup Sevens.