Currie Cup 2023 Kick-off Date Revealed

SA Rugby has announced the exciting competition structure for the 2023 rugby season, which will see an expansion of the Currie Cup Premier Division, the addition of the Mzanzi Challenge comprising five international teams, as well as plenty of provincial women’s and age-group rugby. – SARugby.

Along with the news that the tournament would start in early March, SA Rugby also revealed that the First Division will kick off on February 11. That tournament will then expand into the much larger Mzansi Challenge from March 24, which will invite teams from Spain, Kenya, Namibia, Israel and Zimbabwe to participate.

The 85th edition of the Currie Cup will see the defending champion Pumas – who famously beat the Griquas in 2022 to claim a first Cup triumph – take on the challenge of the Bulls, Griquas, Cheetahs, Lions, Griffons and Western Province in an expanded eight-team tournament over a double round of matches, starting on March 11.

One of the world’s oldest domestic rugby competitions, the Currie Cup, has finally been given a kick-off date for its 2023 season, it was revealed by SA Rugby on Monday

The Currie Cup final will be contested on June 24. The South African franchises – Bulls, Lions, Sharks and Stormers – participating in the United Rugby Championship will once again have to juggle playing in as many as three tournaments as they wrap up their European commitments until May, including possible European Professional Club Rugby fixtures.

The First Division, meanwhile, will see an interesting development.

The six local sides – Leopards, Valke, Boland Kavaliers, Eastern Province, Border Bulldogs and SWD Eagles will compete for domestic honours. From the end of March onwards, however, they will also compete to reach the final of the Mzansi Challenge.

Source: IOL