Bok rugby fans, here are all the details of the countrywide trophy tour

The Springbok rugby team will embark on a four-day trophy tour to major regional centres from Thursday, SA Rugby announced on Sunday, following their Rugby World Cup win in Paris on Saturday.

The team will attend the gala World Rugby awards ceremony in Paris on Sunday night before leaving France for South Africa on Monday morning.

The Boks arrive back in South Africa on Tuesday at 10.55am at OR Tambo International Airport and will commence the tour 48 hours later.

The Boks beat the All Blacks 12-11 in the final at the Stade de France on Saturday to win their fourth World Cup title. It was also a back-to-back win after their triumph in Japan in 2019, joining the All Blacks (2011 and 2015) as the only back-to-back champions.

Tour details

The trophy tour will start in Pretoria, Johannesburg and Soweto – concluding at FNB Stadium – on Thursday, 2 November, and take in Cape Town (Friday, 3 November) and Durban (Saturday, 4 November) before concluding in the Eastern Cape (East London) on Sunday, 5 November.

The locations have been selected for population size in the first three instances and because of the Eastern Cape’s rugby significance in the fourth, said SA Rugby.

Satellite tours to Bloemfontein, Nelson Mandela Bay and other centres will be scheduled for 2024. Such tours following the 2019 victory had to be abandoned because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The route for each tour has been prepared in consultation with the respective local authorities and the South African Police Service.

Route maps and timings will be published at springboks.rugby on SA Rugby’s social media channels and by local authorities in due course.