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The Currie Cup is one of the oldest rugby competitions, [2] with the first games played in 1889 but it was only in 1892 that it became officially known as the Currie Cup. . The competition had its humble beginnings as an inter-province competition in 1884, but when the South African Rugby Board was founded in 1889 it decided to organize a national competition that would involve representative ...
The 2024 Currie Cup Premier Division is the 86th edition of the Currie Cup, the premier domestic rugby union competition in South Africa, and the oldest provincial rugby competition in the world. The competition was sponsored by beer brand Carling Black Label and organised by the South African Rugby Union .
The eleven provincial Currie Cup teams, as well as South Western Districts and KwaZulu-Natal Inland, continued to compete separately in the Provincial Three-Day Challenge, which remained a first-class competition, although on a semi-professional level and no longer the top level of red-ball cricket in South Africa.
Leinster Towns Cup: Ireland: 1888: Blackrock College RFC [7] 9: Currie Cup: South Africa: 1889: Western Province [8] 10: French Championship: Bagatelle, Paris: 1892: Racing Club de France: Stade Français [9] 11 Mallett Cup Cardiff: 1893 Cardiff RFC Reserves: Canton RFC 12: Mulock Cup (University of Toronto Intramural Championship) Toronto ...
The 2021 Currie Cup Premier Division was the 83rd edition of the top tier of the Currie Cup, the premier domestic rugby union competition in South Africa. It was sponsored by beer brand Carling Black Label and organised by the South African Rugby Union .
The 2018 Currie Cup Premier Division was the top tier of the 2018 Currie Cup, the 80th edition of the annual South African rugby union competition organised by the South African Rugby Union. It was played between 17 August and 27 October 2018 and featured the same seven teams as in 2017 .
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The Griffons rugby union was formed in 1968 when the late Dr Danie Craven, the president of SA rugby, had a vision to spread the game to rural areas in South Africa.The Griffons were one of four new provincial teams formed, originally known as Northern Free State (or Noord Vrystaat in Afrikaans).