The Bulls or the Vodacom Bulls are the South African professional rugby union that plays in Super Rugby. Bulls are nicknamed as the Blue Bulls and their Afrikaan name is die Blou Bulle. This team also does participate in the Currie Cup Premier Division. The Bulls are located at Pretoria, South Africa which covers the regions of Gauteng and Limpopo. Bulls play their home matches at Loftus Versfeld in Pretoria which has a capacity of 51,762 spectators. Alan Zondagh is the Director of the team and former South African player Pote Human is the Head Coach. The South African international player Lood de Jager is the Captain of the side.
In last season Bulls were on 5th position in South African Conference and was on 12th in overall team rankings. The Bulls team was founded in 1997 and they joined Super 10 that time afterwards they participate in Super 12 and Super 14 as well. Blue Bulls has been the great team in those events and won titles thrice in 2007, 2009, and 2010. They were Semi-finalist in the 2013 edition. They are facing the downfall since then and now for 2019 Super Rugby edition, they are focused to make their position better.
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Past years |
Position on Table |
For title |
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2018 |
12th |
Eliminated in group stage |
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2017 |
15th |
Cut off in the group stage |
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2016 |
9th |
Eliminate in rounds |
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2012 |
5th |
Quarter-finalist |
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1996, 2005, 2006, 2013 |
3rd or 4th |
Semi-Finalist |
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2007, 2009, 2010 |
1st |
Finalist |
The South African conference rugby union Bulls has selected these players for their 2019 Super Rugby event. Bulls rely on their own country players as they selected all their squad from South African international rugby team and domestic. Blues added some new player from the domestic side that is a great addition to the team. Under the Lood de Jager captaincy Bulls are ready to make comeback in this season. They are looking forward to coming over every team in this event.
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Forwards |
Backs |
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Hookers |
Props |
Locks |
Lossies |
Scrum-halves |
Fly-halves |
Centres |
Wingers |
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Schalk Brits |
Matthys Basson |
Lood de Jager (c) |
Tim Agaba |
Theo Maree |
Marnitz Boshoff |
Stedman Gans |
Cornal Hendricks |
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Corniel Els |
Lizo Gqoboka |
Jason Jenkins |
Thembelani Bholi |
Embrose Papier |
Manie Libbok |
JT Jackson |
Travis Ismaiel |
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Johan Grobbelaar |
Madot Mabokela |
Eli Snyman |
Nick de Jager |
Ivan van Zyl |
Handre Pollard |
Jesse Kriel |
Johnny Kôtze |
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Edgar Marutlulle |
Simphiwe Matanzima |
RG Snyman |
Carel du Preez |
Andre Warner |
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Franco Naudé |
Duncan Matthews |
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Jaco Visagie |
Nqoba Mxoli |
Hendre Stassen |
Jannes Kirsten |
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Burger Odendaal |
Rosko Specman |
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Trevor Nyakane |
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Hanro Liebenberg |
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Dylan Sage |
Jade Stighling |
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Dayan van der Westhuizen |
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Paul Schoeman |
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Full- Backs |
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Conraad van Vuuren |
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Roelof Smit |
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Warrick Gelant |
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Ruan Steenkamp |
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Divan Rossouw |
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Muller Uys |
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Marco van Staden |
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JanoVenter |
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The Bulls Super Rugby 2019 Schedule is here for their fans, the season is starting from February 2019. All bulls’ fans around the world be ready to witness your team's most important fixtures in Super Rugby 2019. Don’t miss to watch your favourite team players against the top sides of the event. Bulls will play their own conference teams and with other two conference teams as well at home and away locations.
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Date & Month |
Versus |
Local Time - GMT |
Ground |
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17 Feb |
17:15 - 15:15 |
Loftus Versfeld, Pretoria |
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24 Feb |
18:40 - 21:40 |
Estadio Jose Amalfitani, Buenos Aires |
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3 Mar |
15:05 - 13:05 |
Ellis Park Stadium, Johannesburg |
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10 Mar |
17:15 - 15:15 |
Loftus Versfeld, Pretoria |
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24 Mar |
15:05 - 13:05 |
Loftus Versfeld, Pretoria |
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31 Mar |
15:05 - 13:05 |
Kings Park Stadium, Durban |
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7 Apr |
15:05 - 13;05 |
Loftus Versfeld, Pretoria |
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14 Apr |
17:15 - 15:15 |
Loftus Versfeld, Pretoria |
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27 Apr |
15:05 - 13:05 |
Newlands Stadium, Cape Town |
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4 May |
15:05 - 13:05 |
Loftus Versfeld, Pretoria |
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10 May |
19:10 - 05:10 |
Loftus Versfeld, Pretoria |
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17 May |
15:05 - 09:45 |
AAMI Park, Melbourne |
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24 May |
19:45 - 09:45 |
GIO Stadium, Canberra |
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31 May |
19:35 - 7:35 |
Eden Park, Auckland |
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7 Jun |
19:35 - 07:35 |
Forsyth Barr Stadium, Dunedin |
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16 Jun |
17:15 - 15:15 |
Loftus Versfeld, Pretoria |
Dear all the Bulls rugby union fans watch Bulls Super Rugby 2019 matches live stream on our online rugby website. You can easily watch Super Rugby live stream of all matches on our watchonlinerugby.net website. There are other several options watching Super Rugby like the TV channels but they are restricted region wise. So the best option is to watch Super Rugby live is the online live streaming site.