South Africa Rugby Team Players 2019

The 2019 rugby world cup is an international rugby union tournament to be held in japan from 20 september until 2 november 2019.

South africa rugby team players 2019. South africa rugby world cup fixtures squad group guide. The south africa springbok players pose for the cameras during the rugby world cup 2019 squad announcement at ulwazi centre multichoice city on august 26 2019 in johannesburg south africa. Rugby world cup 2019 squads. Twenty national teams will compete and each will bring a 31 man squad containing no regulated number of players per position to the tournament.

Matfield is the most capped lock for any nation in rugby history with all of his 127 appearances at that position. Rassie erasmus coach of south africa looks on before a match against argentina on 10 august 2019 getty images read more. The most capped back is bryan habana with 124 caps over a thirteen year career. The south africa national rugby union team commonly known as the springboks colloquially the boks or bokke and amabokoboko is the country s national team governed by the south african rugby union the springboks play in green and gold jerseys with white shorts and their emblem is the native antelope springbok the team has been representing south africa in international rugby union since.

Inside 18 months erasmus has taken largely the same group of players and turned them into the southern hemisphere s leading team going into the. South africa put their years of struggle behind them at the 2019 rugby world cup after winning against england in the final. Percy montgomery holds the south african record for test points with 893 which at the time of his international retirement placed. South africa were one of of the 12 automatic qualifiers for the 2019 tournament.