Boland Cavaliers

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Boland Cavaliers
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Full nameBoland Cavaliers
UnionBoland Rugby Union
Founded1939
Region Cape Winelands and West Coast districts of Western Cape Province
Ground(s) Boland Stadium (Capacity: 12 000)
PresidentBennie van Rooi
Coach(es) Hawies Fourie
Captain(s)Thurlow Marsh
League(s) Currie Cup First Division
2023 Champions
1st on log
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The Boland Cavaliers (Boland Kavaliers in Afrikaans), also (known for sponsorship reasons as the Sanlam Boland Cavaliers ) are a South African rugby union team that participates in the annual Currie Cup tournament. They draw players from the Cape Winelands and West Coast districts of Western Cape Province, and play out of Wellington at Boland Stadium.

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On the 12th of October 2023 the Boland Rugby (Pty) Ltd announced an exciting and transformative equity partnership with Stellenbosch Academy of Sport and a consortium comprising companies controlled by the Motsepe family.

South African billionaires Patrice Motsepe and Johann Rupert , majority shareholders of the Pretoria-based sports company Blue Bulls Company , acquired a controlling interest in the Boland Rugby Union.

This partnership is poised to redefine the future of rugby in the Boland region at amateur and professional levels, a talent-rich area with over 200 registered amateur rugby clubs, making it one of the largest rugby unions in South Africa.

The new partnership will have the Motsepe consortium and SAS own 74% of the Boland rugby professional arm with the Boland Rugby Union retaining 26%. The new partners will have a collaborative arrangement to cultivate a shared commitment to providing substantial resources and expertise to support the Boland Rugby Union's growth and development initiatives.

Honours

Current squad

The following players were included in the Boland Cavaliers squad for the 2024 Currie Cup First Division and SA Cup: [1]

Boland Cavaliers Currie Cup squad

Props

Hookers

Locks

Loose forwards

  • Flag of South Africa.svg Sauliegh Arendse
  • Flag of South Africa.svg Emile Booysen
  • Flag of South Africa.svg Thurlow Marsh (c)
  • Flag of South Africa.svg Keenan Opperman
  • Flag of South Africa.svg Peter John Smit
  • Flag of South Africa.svg Gift Dlamini
  • Flag of South Africa.svg Taine-Randell Booysen
  • Flag of South Africa.svg Tyreec Liedeman

Scrum-halves

Fly-halves

Centres

  • Flag of South Africa.svg Xavier Mitchell
  • Flag of South Africa.svg Jurick Lewis
  • Flag of South Africa.svg Erik Lambrecht
  • Flag of South Africa.svg Durin Nasson

Wingers

Fullbacks

(c) Denotes team captain and Bold denotes internationally capped.

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References

  1. "Boland Squad". SA Rugby. Retrieved 30 March 2022.