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2024 United Rugby Championship Final
The 2024 United Rugby Championship Grand Final was the final match of the 2023–24 United Rugby Championship (URC) season. It was contested by the Bulls from South Africa and Scotland's Glasgow Warriors. Glasgow won the match 21–16, coming back from 13–0 down just before half-time to claim their second URC title. The final was held in South Africa for the third time in succession, with a second appearance for the Bulls following their defeat in 2022, and a first appearance for Glasgow Warriors who are the first Scottish team, and the first team outside of South Africa and Ireland, to reach the final since the competition adopted its current format. For the third year in succession, the top-seeded team at the start of the play-offs failed to reach the final. Route to the final ''Note: In all results below, the score of the finalist is given first (H: home; A: away).'' Match Venue With Glasgow's elimination of top-ranked Munster in the semi-finals, the Bulls were the high ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2023–24 United Rugby Championship
The 2023–24 United Rugby Championship was the 23rd season of the professional rugby union competition known as the United Rugby Championship, and the third season under that name. It began on 21 October 2023 and ended on 22 June 2024. The reigning and defending champions were Munster, who defeated Stormers in the 2023 final. Glasgow Warriors claimed the 2023–24 championship, defeating the Bulls in the grand final for their second overall championship. Format The season consisted of 21 rounds: 18 rounds of regular season play, followed by three rounds of play-offs. The winner of each Shield was determined solely from the games played amongst the teams within their regional pool, mirroring the format of the old Interprovincial Championship in Ireland. There were four regional pools: The Irish Shield pool (featuring the four Irish teams), the Welsh Shield pool (featuring the four Welsh teams), the South African Shield pool (featuring the four South African teams), and the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ospreys (rugby Union)
The Ospreys (), formerly the Neath–Swansea Ospreys ''www.walesonline.co.uk'', accessed 22 October 2020 is one of the four professional teams from . They compete in the and in European Professional Club Rugby ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Murphy Walker
Murphy Bailey Walker (born 25 October 1999) is a Scotland international rugby union player who plays as a prop for United Rugby Championship club Glasgow Warriors. He is also a Scrum Coach at Glasgow Hawks.https://x.com/GlasgowHawks1/status/1938674117114229091 Rugby Union career Amateur career Walker played for Dundee HSFP. He played for Strathallan School. With the school he was the captain of the winning team that won the Scottish Schools tournament in 2018, beating Glenalmond College in the final. When returning from injury in 2025, Walker played for Glasgow Hawks. Professional career He was made a Stage 3 player in the 2018-19 intake for the Scottish Rugby Academy, assigned to Glasgow Warriors. He played for Stirling Wolves in the Super 6. He made his debut for Glasgow Warriors in the 2021-22 season, playing in the pre-season friendly against Newcastle Falcons on 3 September 2021, replacing Murray McCallum in the match on 51 minutes. He also played in the pre-seas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keagan Johannes
Keagan Johannes (born 27 November 1999) is a South African rugby union player for the in the United Rugby Championship and the in the Currie Cup. His regular position is scrum-half. Johannes was named in the side for their Round 7 match of the 2020–21 Currie Cup Premier Division against the . He made his debut in the same fixture, coming on as a replacement scrum-half. Honours * Currie Cup winner (2021 Like the year 2020, 2021 was also heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, due to the emergence of multiple Variants of SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19 variants. The major global rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, which began at the end of 2020, continued ...) References South African rugby union players 1999 births Living people Rugby union scrum-halves Blue Bulls players Bulls (rugby union) players Place of birth missing (living people) 21st-century South African sportsmen {{SouthAfrica-rugbyunion-bio-1990s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zak Burger
Izak Burger (born 20 August 1998) is a South African rugby union player for the in the United Rugby Championship and the in the Currie Cup. His regular position is scrum-half. Honours * SuperSport Rugby Challenge winner 2019 * Currie Cup winner 2021 * Pro14 Rainbow Cup runner-up 2021 Like the year 2020, 2021 was also heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, due to the emergence of multiple Variants of SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19 variants. The major global rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, which began at the end of 2020, continued ... * United Rugby Championship runner-up 2021-22 References South African rugby union players Living people 1998 births Rugby union scrum-halves Griquas (rugby union) players South Africa Under-20 international rugby union players Bulls (rugby union) players Blue Bulls players Alumni of Paarl Gimnasium 21st-century South African sportsmen Place of birth missing (living people) {{SouthAfrica-rugbyunion-bio-1990s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Devon Williams (rugby Union)
Devon Frank Williams (born 16 April 1992 in Stellenbosch) is a South African rugby union player for the in the Currie Cup and in the Rugby Challenge. His regular position is winger or fullback. Career Youth Williams represented since Under-18 level, playing for them at the Academy Week and Craven Week tournaments in 2010. In 2011, he played for the side in the 2011 Under-19 Provincial Championship competition, scoring three tries in thirteen appearances. He played for the side in 2012 (finishing joint-fifth top try scorer with six tries in just seven starts, despite missing a large part of the season through injury) and 2013, scoring eight tries in fourteen starts and winning the "U21 Back of the Year" award. Senior career His first taste of senior rugby came in 2013, when he was included in the squad for the 2013 Vodacom Cup competition. He made his debut in the opening match of the season, starting on the left wing in their 17–17 draw with the in Ceres, scoring ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Willie Le Roux
Willem Jacobus le Roux (born 18 August 1989) is a South African professional rugby union player. He is a versatile back-line player who generally plays as a fullback or wing, though earlier in his career he played mostly as a fly-half. He plays for the South Africa national team and for the Blue Bulls in the United Rugby Championship. He was born in Stellenbosch. Known for his vision, try assisting and ability under the high ball, he is widely regarded as one of the best fullbacks of his generation. Club career Le Roux was born and raised in the Western Cape and he started his professional career with . He spent 2 years with the Cavaliers, helping them to lift the 2011 Currie Cup First Division title in his final appearance. He moved north to join the along with several of his Boland team-mates in 2012 and started 9 of the Peacock Blues 10 games during his debut season in Kimberley. After a rocky start in which he was sin-binned for a dangerous tackle on full-back Jurgen Vis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kurt-Lee Arendse
Kurt-Lee Arendse (born 17 June 1996) is a South African professional rugby player for the South Africa national team, where his regular position is wing or fullback, and a rugby union player for the Bulls in the United Rugby Championship Career He attended Paulus Joubert Secondary School in Paarl, where he earned a selection into the ' sevens team that competed at the 2014 SARU Under-18 Sevens competition. He progressed through the youth ranks in rugby union, playing in several national junior competitions — he played for in the 2015 Under-19 Provincial Championship, for in the 2016 Under-20 Provincial Championship and for in the 2017 Under-21 Provincial Championship. He was named as the MVP at the 2018 Varsity Cup Sevens tournament, and joined the South African Rugby Sevens Academy in December 2018. After playing for in the 2019 Varsity Cup, Arendse was named in the Blitzboks squad for the Vancouver Sevens, and he made his debut in their 31–12 Cup semi-final v ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Craig Evans (rugby Union Referee)
Craig Evans (born 12 October 1991 in Neath) is a Welsh rugby referee. He has been a member of Wales' professional rugby union ranks since 2015. Career Evans, who began refereeing as a teenager, began refereeing on the World Rugby Sevens Series in 2016. He refereed during the 2020 Olympics, before committing to the 15-aside game full time. He made his Pro14 refereeing debut in 2018, and would be awarded his first Six Nations Championship match for the match between Italy and Ireland in the 2021 Six Nations Championship The 2021 Six Nations Championship (known as the Guinness Six Nations for sponsorship reasons) was the 22nd Six Nations Championship, the annual rugby union competition contested by the national teams of England national rugby union team, England, .... He was appointed to the Tier One select group of referees in June 2021. References 1991 births Living people Welsh rugby union referees Sportspeople from Neath United Rugby Championship referees { ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Murphy (rugby Union)
Frank Murphy (born 2 December 1983) is a former professional rugby union player from Ireland who works as a referee for the Irish Rugby Football Union. He primarily played as a scrum-half. Originally from Cork, Murphy played for his native province of Munster before moving to the English side Leicester Tigers. Murphy began refereeing in the All-Ireland League in 2015, progressing to referee in the British and Irish Cup later that year. He began refereeing at international level in 2016, and has taken charge of games in the European Nations Cup. In November 2016, Murphy took charge of his first Pro12 game, and has since gone on to referee in the Challenge Cup at European level. Early life Murphy grew up in Crosshaven, a village in south County Cork, and began his playing career with the local team, Crosshaven RFC. In his final year of secondary school, he went on to play with Christian Brothers College, Cork. While playing with the Christian Brothers team, he won the Munst ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2023 Rugby World Cup
The 2023 Rugby World Cup () was the tenth men's Rugby World Cup, the quadrennial world championship for national rugby union teams. It took place in France from 8 September to 28 October 2023 in nine venues across the country. The opening game and 2023 Rugby World Cup final, final took place at the Stade de France, north of Paris. The tournament was held in the bicentenary year of the purported invention of the sport by William Webb Ellis. The tournament was scheduled to last six weeks, but in February 2021 World Rugby added a week to provide additional rest days for player welfare. This meant that teams had a minimum of five days' rest for all matches. It was the fourth time France has hosted the Rugby World Cup, having previously done so in 2007 Rugby World Cup, 2007 and co-hosted the 1991 Rugby World Cup and 1999 Rugby World Cup with England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales. This was the last tournament to feature 20 teams taking part, as the tournament will be expanded to includ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Six Nations Championship
The Six Nations Championship (known as the Six Nations, branded as Guinness M6N) is an annual international rugby union competition by the teams of England, France, Ireland, Italy, Scotland and Wales. It is the oldest sports tournament contested by the Home Nations. The championship holders are France, who won the 2025 tournament. The tournament is organised by the unions of the six participating nations under the banner of Six Nations Rugby, which is responsible for the promotion and operation of the men's, women's and under-20s tournaments, and the Autumn International Series, as well as the negotiation and management of their centralised commercial rights. The Six Nations is the successor to the Home Nations Championship (1883–1909 and 1932–39), played by teams from England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales, which was the first international rugby union tournament.Godwin (1984), pg 1. Though only matches involving Ireland could properly be considered international, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
