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The Boland Grootuitdaag Championship is an annual rugby union competition organised by the Boland Rugby union involving amateur teams from the Boland Region in the Western Cape, South Africa. The Championship is split into six different regions: BreeLangeberg region, Wit Central Region, Overberg Region, Westcoast Region, Swartland Region and Northwest Region. The Boland Grootuitdaag Championship represents the highest level of domestic club rugby in each of its constituent regions. Each team within a Region play each other twice, once at home and once away. Each Region has a League Championship with a League Champion being crowned who is promoted to the Sanlam Boland Top 12 playoff series where the Boland Club Rugby Champion is crowned, who goes on as the Boland representative in the Gold cup.

Promotion and relegation[edit]

A system of promotion and relegation exists between the Boland Grootuitdaag Championship and the Boland Gemeenskapskild. The lowest placed team is relegated to the Gemeenskapskil Championship, and the winner of the Gemeenskapskild Championship promoted to the Grootuitdaag Championship. An additional team is promoted after a series of play-offs involving the second lowest finisher in the Boland Grootuitdaag Championship and the Second placed finisher in the Gemeenskapskild Championship. 'In addition to the above-mentioned Championships there also exist a lower division called the Streekuitdaag Championship.

The Boland Rugby Union championships then exist as the following in

Boland Grootuitdaag Championship: Sanlam Boland top 12 The championship is divided into six regions each playing in a league which crowns a Champion and a runner-up who qualifies for the Sanlam Boland Top12 playoff series. The teams get divided into two groups A and B with teams of where the 3 League Champions of each region gets put into one of the two groups with a 3 runner ups of the other regions. After all the teams play each other, a log is then used to determine where the top 2 teams in each of the group's progress to the Semi-finals . Team number 1 in Group A then plays team Number 2 in Group B and vice versa. The winners of these two semis then progress the the final where the SANLAM BOLAND TOP12 BOLAND GROOTUITDAAG CHAMPION' 'is crowned who goes on as the Boland representative in the Gold cup.

Boland Gemeenskapsklip Championship The championship is divided into six regions each playing in a league which crowns a Champion and a runner-up who qualifies for the Sanlam Boland Top12 playoff series

Boland Streekuitdaag Championship: The championship is divided into six regions each playing in a league which crowns a Champion and a runner-up who qualifies for the Sanlam Boland Top12 playoff series

Champions[edit]

https://bolandrugby.co.za/exciting-12-takeouts-from-new-look-sanlam-boland-top12/


Year	Boland Club Rugby Champion
2000	Ceres
2001	Ceres
2002	Ceres
2003	Wellington
2004	Wellington
2005	Wellington
2006	Roses United
2007	Rawsonville
2008	Roses United
2009	Robertson Town
2010	Roses United
2011	Roses United
2012	Villagers Worcester
2013	Roses United
2014	Villagers Worcester
2015	Villagers Worcester
2016	Hawston
2017	Roses United
2018	Villagers Worcester
2019	Saldanah
2020	Covid-19
2021	Covid-19
2022	Saldanah
2023	Safcol

References[edit]

Abdurahman (‘Manie’) Booley, Forgotten Heroes: A History of Black Rugby 1882-1992. (Cape Town: M. Booley, Cape Town, 1998).

Hendrik Snyders – “Rugby, National Pride and the Struggle of Black South Africans for International Recognition, c. 1896 – 1991”, Sporting Traditions, Vol. 32, no. 1 May 2015.

Hendrik Snyders – “Between the Springbok and Ikhamanga”: The Untold Story of South Africa’s Black Rugby Exiles”, Impumelelo: The Interdisciplinary Electronic Journal of African Sports vol. 5, 2010.

Hendrik Snyders – “Visionary courtyard players – The Robben Island Rugby Board and the transition to post-apartheid society, c.1972 – 1992.” Book Chapter; Edited Volume, Michael J. Gennaro & Saheed Aderinto (ed.) African Sports: Past and Present (Routledge – April 2019).

https://www.sanlam.co.za/mediacentre/media-category/media-releases/Sanlam%20Part%20of%20Landmark%20Boland%20Rugby%20Deal

R2,5 million allocated for clubs in Boland this year: https://www.son.co.za/dieson/sport/rugby/klubrugby/r25-miljoen-vanjaar-vir-klubs-in-boland-bewillig-20240229