South African Rugby Team 2020

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.

South african rugby team 2020. Springbok sevens players selvyn davids and jc pretorius were honoured for their superb performances during the shortened sevens season with the ultimate accolade after being named in the 2020 hsbc world rugby sevens series dream team. Friday 21 feb 2020 saturday 22 feb 2020. Log matches teams stats. South africa first played test rugby in 1891 against a british isles touring team.

Friday 31 jan 2020 saturday 20 jun 2020. Log matches teams stats. Pro14 rugby and sa rugby hope that south african teams will be able to join the season in 2021 using a replacement team from south africa s current professional franchises in place of the kings. Europe s pro14 rugby league is in early discussions to add more south african teams next year it said wednesday which might lead to the break up of the southern hemisphere s super rugby.

This year s hsbc 7s circuit was largely wiped out by the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic but that did not prevent ambassadors danielle waterman and bryan habana from helping to select the 7s dream teams of 2020 line ups where south africa led the way in terms of men s representation and new zealand did likewise at women s level. The castle lager rugby championship. Log matches teams stats. Files in this file photo taken on october 4 2019 south africa s wing cheslin kolbe l runs to score a try during the japan 2019 rugby world cup pool b match between south africa and italy at.

September 23 2020 tournament news. Blitzboks duo named in world series dream team. 29 feb 2020 monday 02 mar 2020. On august 25 pro14 rugby acknowledged that under current international travel restrictions it is not possible for south african teams to fulfil guinness pro14 fixtures until 2021.

When the tournament expanded in 2017 to include two south african. The springboks made their rugby world cup debut in 1995 when the newly democratic south africa hosted the tournament and the team under the captaincy of francois pienaar defeated the all blacks in the final 15 12 a moment which is remembered as one of the greatest in south africa s sporting history.