Boland Cavaliers

Boland Cavaliers

Full name	Boland Cavaliers
Union	Boland Rugby Union
Founded	1939
Region	Cape Winelands and West Coast districts of Western Cape Province
Ground(s)	Boland Stadium (Capacity: 12 000)
President	Bennie van Rooi
Coach(es)	Hawies Fourie [1]
Captain(s)	Marlyn Williams
League(s)	Currie Cup Premier Division
2024	Champions 1st on log
Team kit
Official website
www.bolandrugby.co.za
Current season

The Boland Cavaliers (Afrikaans : Boland Kavaliers) are a South African rugby union team that participates in the annual SA Cup and 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.

In October 2023 Boland announced a partnership with the Stellenbosch Academy of Sport and a consortium comprising companies controlled by South African billionaires Patrice Motsepe and Johann Rupert.

The partnership sees the Motsepe consortium and SAS own 74% of the Boland rugby professional arm with the Boland Rugby Union retaining 26%. ^[2]

On the 10th of May 2025 The Sanlam Boland Cavaliers qualified for the semifinal of the SA Cup after beating Eastern Province Elephants 36-22 in a Round Nine SA Cup clash at the Nelson Mandela University stadium in Gqeberha. The victory meant that the Cavaliers finished in the top 4 of the SA Cup and by doing that they qualified for the Currie Cup Premier Division and ended a nine-year wait to play in the Currie Cup Premier Division. They last had the honour of taking on the country's best provincial sides in 2016 before being relegated to the Currie Cup First Division.

Honours

Currie Cup First Division

• Champions: 2001, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2011, 2023, 2024 ^[3]

Vodacom Cup

• Runner-up: 2001

Vodacom Shield

• Champions: 2004

Bankfin Nite Series

• Runner-up: 1997

Current squad

The following players have been included so far in the Boland Cavaliers squad for the 2025 Currie Cup Premier Division: ^[4]

Boland Cavaliers Currie Cup squad
Props Andrew Beerwinkel Doctor Booysen Mthokozisi Gumede ADD Wayrin Losper Lamla Nunu Dayan van der Westhuizen Laurence Victor Hookers Emile Booysen Llewellyn Classen Sidney Tobias HP van Schoor Locks Michael Benadie Ameer Hendricks Schalk Oelofse Marlyn Williams (c)	Loose forwards Sauleigh Arendse Taine-Randall Booysen Gift Dlamini Keenan Opperman Khwezi Mafu Thurlow Marsh Sibusiso Sangweni Jurie van Vuuren Ludio Williams Scrum-halves Bentley Geldenhuys Aphelele Madaka Godlen Masimla Louis Schreuder Chriswill September Fly-halves Ashlon Davids Darian Hock Juan Mostert James Tedder	Centres David Brits Erik Lambrecht Jurick Lewis Xavier Mitchell Lunathi Nxele Wingers Donovan Don Cornell Engelbrecht Riaan Louw Marcqiewn Titus Renaldo Young Fullbacks Jayden Bantom ADD Duren Hoffman Domenic Smit
(c) Denotes team captain, Bold denotes internationally capped, denotes a player ruled out for the season through injury and ADD denotes an additional player from outside the main squad.

References

1. Tshwaku, Khanyiso. "CURRIE CUP PREVIEW - Tournament fights for relevance as big guns withdraw URC stars". News24. Retrieved 25 July 2025.
2. "Ground-breaking equity deal for Boland". rugby365.com. Retrieved 28 July 2024.
3. "MSN". www.msn.com. Retrieved 28 July 2024.
4. "YOUR @sanlam_boland_cavaliers for the 2025 Carling Currie Cup Premier Division competition". Boland Cavaliers on Facebook. 22 July 2025. Retrieved 24 July 2025.