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The Springbok Women played their first Test in 2004. [1] They have won the Rugby Africa Women's Cup twice — in 2019 and 2022. [2] [3] South Africa climbed to eleventh place on the World Rugby ranking in September 2022 with wins over Japan and Spain.
South Africa at the 2012 Dubai Women's 7s. The South Africa women's national rugby sevens team competes at events within the World Rugby Women's Sevens Series and are a core team for the 2023–24 season. They first played in the 2009 Rugby World Cup Sevens, and also competed in the IRB Women's Sevens Challenge Cup in the 2011–12 season.
The team has represented South African Rugby Union in international rugby union since 30 July 1891, when they played their first test match against a British Isles touring team. Currently, the Springboks are the reigning World Champions, having won the World Cup a record four times ( 1995 , 2007 , 2019 and 2023 ).
Roos was selected for the South African women's sevens team again and played in the 2022 Rugby World Cup Sevens. [7] [8] [9] She was named in South Africa's women's fifteens team for the 2021 Rugby World Cup. [10] In 2023, she was named in the Springbok women's sevens side for the Dubai Women's Sevens. [11]
The following is a list of South Africa women's national rugby union team international matches. It includes both formally recognised test matches (result counts for the international ranking of World Rugby) as other matches. The international ranking can be found on the website of World Rugby. [1]
Zintle Mpupha (born 25 December 1993) is a South African women's rugby union player and cricketer from Middledrift, Eastern Cape, South Africa. [1] She played cricket for Border cricket team and rugby for Border Bulldogs as well as the South Africa women's national rugby sevens team as a fly half.
Nomsebenzi Agnes "Noms" Tsotsobe (born 24 November 1978) is a South African rugby union player and model. Tsotsobe was born in Kwa Magxaki, Port Elizabeth, and has played for and captained the South Africa women's national rugby union team, the Springboks, since their founding in 2004.
In 2009, she made her international debut in both sevens and 15s, and five years later she was part of the first group of South African women to be awarded professional contracts. [1] In 2013 she was named Springbok Women's Player of the Year, [2] and in 2022 she became South Africa's most capped player. [3]