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South Africa\u2019s leading schoolboys will be in action at the FNB u18 Craven Week tournament at Ho\u00ebrskool Middelburg in Mpumalanga, starting on Monday with the final day scheduled for next Saturday.<\/p>\nSouth Africa\u2019s leading schoolboys will be in action at the FNB u18 Craven Week tournament at Ho\u00ebrskool Middelburg in Mpumalanga, starting on Monday with the final day scheduled for next Saturday.<\/p>\n
The final instalment of SA Rugby\u2019s 2025 FNB Youth Weeks programme will run from Monday 7 to Saturday 12 July, with 16 teams competing across the matches played on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday.<\/p>\n
At the conclusion of the tournament, the SA Schools and SA Schools \u2018A\u2019 teams will be announced. They will face each other at Ho\u00ebrskool Middelburg on Thursday, 17 July, while the U18 International Series will follow in August.<\/p>\n
Nine players who featured in the SA Schools and SA U18 teams last year have been included in their provincial squads again. They are Josh Neill, Markus Muller, Briint Davids, Jordan Jooste (all WP), Ethan Adams, AJ Meyer (both Free State), Zekhe Siyaya (KZN), Andr\u00e9 Poulton (Lions), and Joshua McKenzie (EP).<\/p>\n
Eight teams are in action on the opening day of the tournament, with the Western Province XV and the Griffons meeting in the first fixture at 09h30.<\/p>\n
Free State, who went down to DHL Western Province in the final match of the 2024 tournament, will face South Western Districts thereafter.<\/p>\n
The FNB u18 Craven Week Opening Ceremony at 14h00 will be followed by a clash between the Hollywood Foundation Pumas \u2013 the hosts of this year\u2019s tournament \u2013 and the Limpopo Blue Bulls.<\/p>\n
DHL Western Province, who finished last year\u2019s tournament unbeaten, will be in action on Tuesday, along with the Leopards, Valke, Border, Suzuki Griquas, Sharks High Schools, Eastern Province and Sanlam Boland.<\/p>\n
All the FNB u18 Craven Week action will be broadcast by SuperSport.<\/p>\n
FNB u18 Craven<\/strong> Week d<\/strong>ay one schedule (Monday, 7 July):<\/strong><\/p>\n 09:30 –<\/strong> DHL Western Province XV v Griffons FNB u18 Craven<\/strong> Week day<\/strong> two schedule (Tuesday, 8 July):<\/strong><\/p>\n 10:00 –<\/strong> Leopards vs Valke Issued by SA Rugby Communications<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" South Africa\u2019s leading schoolboys will be in action at the FNB u18 Craven Week tournament at Ho\u00ebrskool Middelburg in Mpumalanga, starting on Monday with the final day scheduled for next Saturday. The final instalment of SA Rugby\u2019s 2025 FNB Youth Weeks programme will run from Monday 7 to Saturday 12 July, with 16 teams competing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":50952,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77064\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/50952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n11:00 –<\/strong> Free State v South Western Districts
\n12:30 –<\/strong> Blue Bulls v Obaro Golden Lions
\n14:00 –<\/strong> Opening Ceremony
\n14:30 –<\/strong> Hollywood Foundation Pumas v Limpopo Blue Bulls<\/p>\n
\n11:30 –<\/strong> Border vs Suzuki Griquas
\n13:00 –<\/strong> Sharks vs Eastern Province
\n14:30 –<\/strong> DHL Western Province vs Sanlam Boland<\/p>\n