Boland Cavaliers

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 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.

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
2023	Champions 1st on log
Team kit
Official website
www.bolandrugby.co.za
Current season

On the 12th of October 2023 the Boland Rugby (Pty) Ltd announced an exciting and transformative equity partnership with Stellenbosch Academy of Sport and a consortium comprising companies controlled by the Motsepe family.

South African billionaires Patrice Motsepe and Johann Rupert , majority shareholders of the Pretoria-based sports company Blue Bulls Company , acquired a controlling interest in the Boland Rugby Union.

This partnership is poised to redefine the future of rugby in the Boland region at amateur and professional levels, a talent-rich area with over 200 registered amateur rugby clubs, making it one of the largest rugby unions in South Africa.

The new partnership will have the Motsepe consortium and SAS own 74% of the Boland rugby professional arm with the Boland Rugby Union retaining 26%. The new partners will have a collaborative arrangement to cultivate a shared commitment to providing substantial resources and expertise to support the Boland Rugby Union's growth and development initiatives.

Honours

• Currie Cup First Division winners: 2001, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2011, 2023
• 2004 Vodacom Shield
• 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:

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