Currie Cup 2010 – Info

This years Currie Cup started on 9 July 2010.
For those readers who are not familiar with the Currie Cup here is a bit of background:
The ABSA Currie Cup dates back to 1889 and is one of the oldest rugby competitions in the world. The tournament is regarded as the cornerstone of South Africa’s rugby heritage, and the coveted gold trophy remains the most prestigious prize in South African domestic rugby.

Currently, South Africa is divided into 14 unions. Four draw players from an entire province:

  • Griquas – Northern Cape (home matches in Kimberley)
  • Leopards – North West (home matches in Potchefstroom)
  • Natal Sharks – KwaZulu-Natal (home matches in Durban)
  • Pumas – Mpumalanga (home matches in Witbank)

The Eastern Cape contains two unions:

  • Border Bulldogs – eastern (home matches in East London)
  • Mighty Elephants – western (home matches in Port Elizabeth)

as does Free State:

  • Free State Cheetahs – central and western (home matches in Bloemfontein)
  • Griffons – eastern (home matches in Welkom)

Western Cape has three unions:

  • Boland Cavaliers (Afrikaans: Boland Kavaliers) – northern (home matches in Wellington)
  • Eagles – eastern (home matches in George)
  • Western Province – Cape Town metropolitan area

Gauteng has two unions that draw exclusively from portions of that province:

  • Falcons (Afrikaans: Valke) – the East Rand and other municipalities to the east and south of Johannesburg (home matches in Brakpan)
  • Golden Lions – Johannesburg and municipalities to its west (home matches in Johannesburg)

Finally, one union draws players from part of Gauteng plus the entirety of another province:

  • Blue Bulls – Pretoria, the two Gauteng municipalities to its east, and Limpopo Province (home matches in Pretoria)

Geographically the rugby unions looks as follows:

 

- Thanx Wikipedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Currie_Cup

Well I hope you enjoy the season.

Regards
The FTG Team

This entry was posted on Friday, July 9th, 2010 at 13:31. It is filed under Currie Cup 2010. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.

2 Responses to “Currie Cup 2010 – Info”

  1. small business grants says:
    10/07/2010 at 17:33

    It’s posts like this that keep me coming back and checking this site regularly, thanks for the info!

  2. The FTG team says:
    10/07/2010 at 21:45

    Thank you for your kind comments. We will publish the Currie Cup logs as well.

    Regards.
    :)

  
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