Rankings

So here it is, our first school rugby rankings of 2022! And also our first school rankings since 2019. 

Grey College is still occupying the top spot, but if we did produce rankings in 2021 Paarl Gimnasium would probably have been the top team for last year. 

There is however at this stage not a lot to choose between the two sides with the fact that Grey has played one more game probably giving them the edge because of how our algorithm features a bonus point for being unbeaten which...

No suprises here - Grey College is South Africa's top first XV for 2019.   

The side from Bloemfontein finished for the second successive year on top of School of Rugby Rankings. They've finished the season unbeaten for the second year in a row and also extended their unbeaten run to 34 matches.  

Paarl Gimnasium will finish the season in second position after only suffering the solitary defeat against Grey
College (33-47) during Wildeklawer. Their biggest arch-rivals...

There is no doubt that Grey College of Bloemfontein is for a second year in a row the top schoolboy rugby team in South Africa. The team finished the 2019 season unbeaten after putting Paul Roos Gimnasium to the sword by 51-28 in Stellenbosch on Saturday. 

Paarl Gimnasium will finish the season in second position after only suffering the solitary defeat against Grey College (33-47) during Wildeklawer. Their biggest arch-rivals, Paarl Boys' High, takes the 3rd position after suffering only...

There were not a lot of school rugby played over the weekend, but there were quite a few upsets over the weekend in the Virsekerbeker play-offs. Menlopark managed to not only secure their biggest ever victory over Garsfontein (72-40), but also defeated Garsies for the first time since 2011. 

Menlopark managed to defeat Monument for the first time ever the previous week and therefore moves into our Top 20 for the first time this season. Garsfontein hold on to their fourth place on the...