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
Captain(s)	Thurlow Marsh
League(s)	Currie Cup First Division
2024	Champions ; 1st on log
	Team kit
	Team kit
Official website
	www.bolandrugby.co.za
	Current season

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 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%.^[1]

Honours

Currie Cup First Division

Champions: 2001, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2011, 2023, 2024^[2]

Vodacom Cup

Runner-up: 2001

Vodacom Shield

Champions: 2004

Bankfin Nite Series

Runner-up: 1997

Current squad

The following players were included in the Boland Cavaliers squad for the 2024 Currie Cup First Division and SA Cup:^[3]

Boland Cavaliers Currie Cup squad
Props Gerrit Bester Nicholas Duhwa Andrew Beerwinkel Abduragmaan Latief Lamla Nunu Dayan van der Westhuizen Doctor Booysen Hookers Emile Booysen Sidney Tobias Kelvin Fikster Albert du Plessis Neil Rautenbach HP van Schoor Locks Michael Benadie Schalk Oelofse Carl Truter Marlyn Williams Ameer Hendricks	Loose forwards Sauliegh Arendse Emile Booysen Thurlow Marsh (c) Keenan Opperman Peter John Smit Gift Dlamini Taine-Randell Booysen Scrum-halves Chriswill September Bentley Geldenhuys Jason Beukes Fly-halves Darian Hock Garth April	Centres Xavier Mitchell Jurick Lewis Erik Lambrecht Durin Nasson Lunathi Nxele Wingers André Manuel (rugby union) Cornell Engelbrecht Riaan Louw Duren Hoffman Noegh Hayward Fullbacks Ashlon Davids Gavern Skippers Domenic Smit
(c) Denotes team captain and Bold denotes internationally capped.

References

^ "Ground-breaking equity deal for Boland". rugby365.com. Retrieved 28 July 2024.
^ "MSN". www.msn.com. Retrieved 28 July 2024.
^ "Boland Squad". SA Rugby. Retrieved 30 March 2022.

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[1] "Ground-breaking equity deal for Boland". rugby365.com. Retrieved 28 July 2024.

[2] "MSN". www.msn.com. Retrieved 28 July 2024.

[Boland_squad-3] "Boland Squad". SA Rugby. Retrieved 30 March 2022.

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