The Boland Stadium is a
stadium
A stadium ( : stadiums or stadia) is a place or venue for (mostly) outdoor sports, concerts, or other events and consists of a field or stage either partly or completely surrounded by a tiered structure designed to allow spectators to stand o ...
in
Wellington, Western Cape,
South Africa with a capacity of about 11,000 spectators.
It is used mostly for
rugby union matches by the
Boland Cavaliers team in the
Currie Cup.
The ground also played host to a
Super Rugby
Super Rugby is a men's professional rugby union club competition involving teams from Australia, Fiji, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands. It previously included teams from Argentina, Japan, and South Africa. Building on various Southern Hem ...
match in 1998, when the
Western Stormers defeated the
Waratahs 35–33. Boland also defeated the
Stormers
The Stormers (known for sponsorship reasons as the DHL Stormers) is a South African professional rugby union team based in Cape Town in the Western Cape that competes in the United Rugby Championship, a trans-hemispheric competition that also ...
at the venue in a pre-season match in the lead up to the
2014 Super Rugby season
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.
References
Rugby union stadiums in South Africa
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