Villagers Worcester Rugby Football Club is an amateur

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club based in

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. They are a member of the Boland Rugby Union and can provide players to the provincial team and the URC Rugby team.

Origins

The club was founded in 1883 in Worcester and is one of the oldest rugby clubs in South Africa and the oldest from a formerly disadvantaged community.

Achievements

* 2012: Villagers Worcester's sevens team won the Boland Union Provincial sevens tournament. Villagers Worcester won the Boland Premier League title in 2012 and represented the union in the inaugural SARU Community Cup competition in

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, where they finished fourth in Pool A and failed to qualify to the finals tournament in

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. * 2014: Villagers Worcester once again win the 2014 Boland Premier League to qualify for the

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edition of the SARU Community Cup.

Club honours

Villager Worcester have won the Boland Rugby club rugby title 5 times in 2012,2014,2015,2017 and 2018.

Notable members

Six players from Villagers had the honour of wearing the green and gold of

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: Johnny Neethling, Isak Neethling, Abe Felix, Maurice Hankey, Christy Noble and Charles January. The clubs most capped player is Moggamat Faeez "Fazli" Isaacs. In 1931, Schalk du Toit and Alvi van der Merwe were selected to tour with Bennie Osler's Springbok side to the United Kingdom with Van der Merwe playing in the test against Wales. His son Johan became Boland captain and later played for Villagers Worcester. Wendal Wehr, currently playing with

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, also played for Villagers Worcester.

References

Sources

* * Various articles from the ''Worcester Standard and Advertiser'' *

External links

* Gold Cup (rugby union) Sport in the Western Cape Rugby clubs established in 1883 Rugby union teams in South Africa {{SouthAfrica-rugbyunion-team-stub