Currie Cup Winners & Finals

Currie Cup Winners & Finals
(as at 2/11/2009)

Currie Cup winners  (1891 – 2009)
1889	Western Province/Board Trophy	1892	Western Province/Currie Cup
1894	Western Province	1895	Western Province
1896	Western Province	1898	Western Province
1899	Griqualand West	1904	Western Province
1906	Western Province	1908	Western Province
1911	Griqualand West	1914	Western Province
1920	Western Province	1922	Golden Lions
1925	Western Province	1927	Western Province
1929	Western Province	1932	Western Province & Border
1934	Western Province & Border	1936	Western Province
1939	Golden Lions	1946	Blue Bulls
1947	Western Province	1950	Golden Lions
1952	Golden Lions	1954	Western Province
1956	Blue Bulls	1957-59	Western Province
1964	Western Province	1966	Western Province
1968	Blue Bulls	1969	Blue Bulls
1970	Griqualand West	1971	Blue Bulls & Golden Lions
1972	Golden Lions	1973	Blue Bulls
1974	Blue Bulls	1975	Blue Bulls
1976	Free State	1977	Blue Bulls
1978	Blue Bulls	1979	Blue Bulls & Western Province
1980	Blue Bulls	1981	Blue Bulls
1982	Western Province	1983	Western Province
1984	Western Province	1985	Western Province
1986	Western Province	1987	Blue Bulls
1988	Blue Bulls	1989	Blue Bulls & Western Province
1990	Natal	1991	Blue Bulls
1992	Natal	1993	Golden Lions
1994	Golden Lions	1995	Natal
1996	Natal	1997	Western Province
1998	Blue Bulls	1999	Lions
2000	Western Province	2001	Western Province
2002	Blue Bulls	2003	Blue Bulls
2004	Blue Bulls	2005	Cheetahs
2006	Cheetahs & Blue Bulls	2007	Cheetahs
2008	Sharks	2009	Blue Bulls

 

Year	Winner		Runner-up		Venue	Referee
1939	Transvaal	17	Western Province	6	Newlands, Cape Town	Boy Louw, Western Province
1946	Blue Bulls	11	Western Province	9	Loftus Versfeld, Pretoria	Carl Basson, Northern Transvaal
1947	Western Province	16	Transvaal	12	Newlands, Cape Town	Albie Henkes, Western Province
1950	Transvaal	22	Western Province	11	Ellis Park, Johannesburg	Eddie Hofmeyr, Transvaal
1952	Transvaal	11	Boland	9	Wellington	Chris Ackermann, Boland
1954	Western Province	11	Blue Bulls	8	Newlands, Cape Town	Ralph Burmeister, Western Province
1956	Blue Bulls	9	Natal	8	King’s Park, Durban	Bawden Coombie, Natal
1968	Blue Bulls	16	Transvaal	3	Loftus Versfeld, Pretoria	Bertie Strasheim, Northern Transvaal
1969	Blue Bulls	28	Western Province	13	Loftus Versfeld, Pretoria	Fonnie van der Vyver, Northern Transvaal
1970	Griqualand West	11	Blue Bulls	9	De Beers, Kimberley	Ben Calitz, Griqualand West
1971	Transvaal	14	Blue Bulls	14	Ellis Park, Johannesburg	Gert Bezuidenhout, Transvaal
1972	Transvaal	25	Gauteng Falcons	19	Pam Brink, Springs	Piet Robbertse, Eastern Transvaal
1973	Blue Bulls	30	Free State	22	Loftus Versfeld, Pretoria	Piet Robbertse, Eastern Transvaal
1974	Blue Bulls	17	Transvaal	15	Loftus Versfeld, Pretoria	Steve Strydom, Free State
1975	Blue Bulls	12	Free State	6	Free State Stadium, Bloemfontein	Justus Moolman, Eastern Province
1976	Free State	33	Western Province	16	Free State Stadium, Bloemfontein	Gert Bezuidenhout, Transvaal
1977	Blue Bulls	27	Free State	12	Loftus Versfeld, Pretoria	Jimmy Smith-Belton, Eastern Province
1978	Blue Bulls	13	Free State	9	Free State Stadium, Bloemfontein	Gert Bezuidenhout, Transvaal
1979	Western Province	15	Blue Bulls	15	Newlands, Cape Town	Steve Strydom, Free State
1980	Blue Bulls	39	Western Province	9	Loftus Versfeld, Pretoria	Steve Strydom, Free State
1981	Blue Bulls	23	Free State	6	Loftus Versfeld, Pretoria	Johan Gouws, Eastern Transvaal
1982	Western Province	24	Blue Bulls	7	Newlands, Cape Town	Steve Strydom, Free State
1983	Western Province	9	Blue Bulls	3	Loftus Versfeld, Pretoria	Johan Gouws, Eastern Transvaal
1984	Western Province	19	Natal	9	Newlands, Cape Town	Cassie Carstens, Northern Transvaal
1985	Western Province	22	Blue Bulls	15	Newlands, Cape Town	Steve Strydom, Free State
1986	Western Province	22	Transvaal	9	Newlands, Cape Town	Steve Strydom, Free State
1987	Blue Bulls	24	Transvaal	18	Ellis Park, Johannesburg	Freek Burger, Western Province
1988	Blue Bulls	19	Western Province	18	Loftus Versfeld, Pretoria	Jimmy Smith-Belton, Eastern Province
1989	Blue Bulls	16	Western Province	16	Newlands, Cape Town	Jimmy Smith-Belton, Eastern Province
1990	Natal	18	Blue Bulls	12	Loftus Versfeld, Pretoria	Freek Burger, Western Province
1991	Blue Bulls	27	Transvaal	15	Loftus Versfeld, Pretoria	Freek Burger, Western Province
1992	Natal	14	Transvaal	13	Ellis Park, Johannesburg	Freek Burger, Western Province
1993	Transvaal	21	Natal	15	King’s Park, Durban	Freek Burger, Western Province
1994	Transvaal	56	Free State	33	Springbok Park, Bloemfontein	Stef Neethling, Boland
1995	Natal	25	Western Province	17	King’s Park, Durban	Tappe Henning, Northern Transvaal
1996	Natal	33	Transvaal	15	Ellis Park, Johannesburg	André Watson, Eastern Transvaal
1997	Western Province	14	Cheetahs	12	Newlands, Cape Town	André Watson, Gauteng Falcons
1998	Blue Bulls	24	Western Province	20	Loftus Versfeld, Pretoria	André Watson, Gauteng Falcons
1999	Golden Lions	32	Natal	9	King’s Park, Durban	André Watson, Gauteng Falcons
2000	Western Province	25	Natal	15	Absa Stadium, Durban	André Watson, Falcons
2001	Western Province	29	Natal	24	Newlands, Cape Town	André Watson, Falcons
2002	Blue Bulls	31	Golden Lions	7	Ellis Park, Johannesburg	Jonathan Kaplan, Sharks
2003	Blue Bulls	40	Sharks	19	Loftus, Pretoria	Shaun Veldsman, Kavaliers
2004	Blue Bulls	42	Cheetahs	33	Loftus, Pretoria	André Watson, Saru
2005	Cheetahs	29	Blue Bulls	25	Loftus, Pretoria	Jonathan Kaplan, Sharks
2006(*)	Cheetahs	28	Blue Bulls	28	Vodacom Park, Bloemfontein	Jonathan Kaplan, Saru
2007	Cheetahs	20	Golden Lions	18	Vodacom Park, Bloemfontein	Mark Lawrence, Saru
2008	Sharks	14	Blue Bulls	9	Absa Stadium, Durban	Jonathan Kaplan, Saru
2009	Blue Bulls	36	Cheetahs	24	Loftus, Pretoria	Jonathan Kaplan, Saru
(*) – In the three draws (1971, 1979 and 1989), the trophy was shared. This Currie Cup Final was new – the first to produce extra time. This was the first extra time (10 minutes each way) in a Currie Cup Final.

Year	Winners		Losers		Venue
1954	Northern Transvaal	9	Free State	8	Free State Stadium, Bloemfontein
1956	Natal	11	Western Province	10	Newlands, cape Town
1969	Western Province	13	Boland	11	Newlands, Cape Town
1970	Northern Transvaal	24	Natal	8	King’s Park Stadium, Durban
1971	Transvaal	23	Natal	10	Ellis Park, Johannebsurg
1973	Free State Northern Transvaal	19 20	Western Province Rhodesia	15 7	Newlands, Cape Town Loftus Versfeld, Pretoria
1974	Transvaal	30	Eastern Province	6	Ellis Park, Johannesburg
1979	Northern Transvaal Western Province	16 20	Eastern Province Griqualand West	6 15	Boet Erasmus Stadium, Port Elizabeth De Beers Stadium, Kimberley
1980	Northern Transvaal Western Province	49 21	South Eastern Transvaal Eastern Province	6 13	Loftus Versfeld, Pretoria Boet Erasmus Stadium, Port Elizabeth
1981	Northern Transvaal Free State	36 28	Northern Free State Eastern Transvaal	12 15	Loftus Versfeld, Pretoria Pam Brink Stadium, Springs
1982	Western Province Northern Transvaal	47 24	Natal Northern Free State	18 21	Newlands, Cape Town North West Stadium, Welkom
1983	Western Province Northern Transvaal	7 32	Natal Northern Free State	3 15	King’s Park, Durban Loftus Versfeld, Pretoria
1984	Natal Western Province	26 53	Free State Eastern Transvaal	15 0	King’s Park, Durban Newlands, Cape Town
1986	Transvaal	18	Natal	4	King’s Park, Durban
1987	Transvaal	12	South West Africa	9	National Stadium, Windhoek
1988	Western Province	26	Northern Free State	9	North West Stadium, Welkom
1989	Western Province	71	Western Transvaal	9	Olën Park, Potchefstroom
1996	Natal Transvaal	35 31	Free State Northern Transvaal	20 21	King’s Park, Durban Loftus Versfeld, Pretoria
1997	Western Province Cheetahs	38 40	Lions Natal	18 22	Newlands, Cape Town King’s Park, Durban
1998	Western Province Blue Bulls	27 31	Griqualand West Natal Sharks	11 17	Hoffe Park, Kimberley Loftus Versfeld, Pretoria
1999	Lions Natal Sharks	81 45	South Western Districts Eagles Cheetahs	21 8	Ellis Park, Johannesburg King’s Park, Durban
2000	Natal Sharks Western Province	29 43	Cheetahs Lions	15 22	Absa Stadium, Durban Newlands, Cape Town
2001	Western Province Natal Sharks	40 16	Cheetahs Lions	18 9	Newlands, Cape Town Absa Stadium, Durban
2002	Lions Blue Bulls	43 22	Cheetahs Natal Sharks	29 19	Vodacom Park, BLoemfontein Absa Stadium, Durban
2004	Blue Bulls Cheetahs	40 17	Lions Western Province	33 11	Loftus Versfeld, Pretoria Newlands, Cape Town
2005	Cheetahs Blue Bulls	16 31	Western Province Lions	11 23	Newlands, Cape Town Loftus Versfeld, Pretoria
2006	Blue Bulls Cheetahs	45 30	Western Province Natal Sharks	30 14	Loftus Versfeld, Pretoria Vodacom Park, Bloemfontein
2007	Lions Cheetahs	19 11	Sharks Blue Bulls	12 6	Absa Stadium, Durban Vodacom Park, Bloemfontein
2008	Sharks Blue Bulls	29 31	Lions Cheetahs	14 19	Absa Stadium, Durban Loftus Versfeld, Pretoria
2009	Cheetahs Blue Bulls	23 21	Sharks Western Province	21 19	Absa Stadium, Durban Newlands, Cape Town
–	–	–	–	–	–

32	Western Province (sharing it on four occasions)
23	Blue Bulls (sharing it on four occasions)
9	Lions (sharing it once)
5	Natal
4	Free State Cheatahs (sharing it once)
3	Griqualand West
2	Border (sharing it twice)
1	–

23	Blue Bulls (including four draws – in 31 finals)
11	Western Province (including two draws – in 22 finals)
8	Lions (including one draw – in 18 finals)
5	Natal (in 11 finals)
4	Free State Cheetahs (including one draw – in 13 finals)
3	–
1	Griqualand West (in 1 final)
0	Boland and Eastern Transvaal (one each) also played in a final.