Rugby

The Hollywoodbets Sharks held their nerve in a hard-fought Vodacom United Rugby Championship derby against the Emirates Lions in Durban on Saturday to consolidate their fourth place on the standings with six regular pool matches remaining and claim the SA Shield for the first time. Springbok scrumhalf Jaden Hendrikse slotted over the winning penalty goal …

Victories for Sanlam Boland Dames and DHL Western Province in round six of the Women’s Premier Division on Saturday will ensure that both of them will remain in the race to the final on 29 March – along with the unbeaten Bulls Daisies – while the Golden Lions Women and EP Queens will try to …

Head Coach Claire Cruikshank today named the Edinburgh side to face Irish Wolfhounds at Energia Park tomorrow afternoon (8 March, 12.15pm kick-off) – live on BBC iPlayer. The capital side head to Dublin for their final match of the Celtic Challenge, with a much-changed line-up selected due to injury and illness. Sarah Denholm makes her …

The Executive Council of the South African Rugby Union (SARU) has advised the administrator of the Western Province Rugby Football Union (WPRFU) to wind up the Union’s period of administration. The decision clears the way for the union to hold elections and will restores its full voting rights once the process is complete. That process …

A Glasgow Warriors starting XV showing five alterations from last weekend will run out at Parc y Scarlets this Sunday, as Lindsey Smith’s squad face Brython Thunder in their final match of the 2024/25 campaign. The two teams have recent experience of facing each other, the Welsh outfit having emerged victorious from a hard-fought encounter …

Darcy Graham has returned to the Scotland starting line-up ahead of this weekend’s Guinness Men’s Six Nations match against Wales at Scottish Gas Murrayfield. Graham missed the previous match, against England, after being concussed in the Ireland match, but will start this weekend against a nation he has fond memories of facing, having made his …

Their abilities on attack and sheer-mindedness on defence will stand the Springbok Women’s Sevens team in good stead at Athlone Stadium in Cape Town on Friday, when the second World Rugby HSBC Sevens Challenger 2025 tournament kicks off. That is the belief of Nadine Roos, the leading points scorer, who feels that a strong performance …

Senior men’s head coach Matt Sherratt has named the Wales team to play Scotland in the fourth round of the 2025 Guinness Six Nations at Scottish Gas Murrayfield, Edinburgh on Saturday 8 March (KO 16.45h GMT, live on BBC and S4C). The starting line-up is unchanged from the third-round home encounter against Ireland two weeks …

The gloves will be off when the Hollywoodbets Sharks and Emirates Lions clash in Durban on Saturday – the only Vodacom United Rugby Championship game of the weekend – in a repeat of last weekend’s match-up, but this time with silverware up for grabs. After this rescheduled first round encounter – which is scheduled to …

The road to qualification for the Carling Currie Cup Premier Division kicks off in Mpumalanga on Friday with the start of the second edition of the SA Cup, with 10 provincial sides battling it out for supremacy and the prestigious trophy, and four places at the top table of the oldest provincial competition in the …

Head coach Richard Whiffin has confirmed his Wales U20 men’s matchday squad to face Scotland in the penultimate round of the 2025 U20 Six Nations at Hive Stadium in Edinburgh this Friday. (KO 7.15pm, S4C). Whiffin has made four personnel changes, as well as switching Tom Bowen from wing to full-back in a game where …

Head Coach Kenny Murray has made four changes to his Scotland U20 side for their 2025 U20 Six Nations fixture against Wales U20 at Hive Stadium on Friday (kick off 7.15pm) – live on BBC iPlayer. Heriot’s Rugby back Angus Hunter comes in for his competitive debut at outside centre, while the further three changes …

It is not quite an open invitation, but it will be a case of the more the merrier for Springbok Women’s Sevens forward Kemisetso Baloyi on Saturday at the Athlone Stadium in Cape Town. Baloyi will not only celebrate her 27th birthday on the final day of the second World Rugby HSBC Sevens Challenger 2025 …

There was obvious disappointment and some distress in the Springbok Women’s Sevens camp on Sunday after they finished third at the first World Rugby HSBC Sevens Challenger 2025 tournament at Athlone Stadium in Cape Town, but once the dust had settled, the positives started to emerge ahead of the second tournament in the series, to …

Head coach Sean Lynn has named a 48-strong extended Wales Training Squad for the 2025 Women’s Guinness Six Nations campaign. Lynn, who has appointed as Wales Head coach in January, has named a squad based around the 15 Welsh internationals who featured in the Women’s Premier Rugby Semi-finals. The Wales Head coach’s own Gloucester-Hartpury, Bristol …

There was St David’s Day delight for the Ospreys as they beat Glasgow Warriors 32-31 at Scotstoun with “a rollercoaster ride” of a match taking a dramatic twist at the final turn. It looked as though league champions Glasgow had snatched the spoils when Duncan Weir converted Nathan McBeth’s try with just 30 seconds to …

The Emirates Lions and DHL Stormers added a tinge of drama to the home straight of the Vodacom United Rugby Championship on Saturday with stunning victories over the Hollywoodbets Sharks and Vodacom Bulls in Gauteng to create a massive logjam at the bottom half of the standings and throw the competition wide open with six …

The Junior Springboks defeated Georgia 27-12 in their second international at the Lelo Arena in Tbilisi on Friday afternoon to not only clinch the series 2-0, scoring five tries to their hosts’ two, but also put a smile on the face of SA U20 coach, Kevin Foote. The SA U20s won both their games against …