Boks to face Pumas at Twickenham

SA Rugby has confirmed that the Springboks will wrap up their 2025 Rugby Championship campaign with a match at Twickenham in London — against Argentina, on Saturday, October 4.

It will be the first time the Boks and Pumas meet in the competition on neutral ground.

The Boks, who are the 2019 and 2023 World Cup winners are eying a “three-peat” in Australia in 2027, are defending champions in the Rugby Championship.

They will kick off their campaign with back-to-back matches against Australia in South Africa on Saturday, the 16th and 23rd of August, before travelling to New Zealand for two matches against the All Blacks in Auckland and Wellington on the 6th and 13th of September. They then return home to face Argentina on Saturday, the 27th, and will close off their campaign in London.

The venues for the Springboks’ home Test matches will be announced soon.

“It’s always exciting to play in London and we look forward to facing Argentina in the UK for the first time in the Rugby Championship,” said Springbok coach, Rassie Erasmus.

“We thoroughly enjoyed the experience of playing two neutral venue Test matches at the Allianz Stadium (Twickenham) in the last two years, especially with the passionate crowd filling the ground and the large contingent of Springbok supporters based in the UK. We have no doubt this match is going to be another exciting spectacle given the intense battles between the Springboks and Los Pumas in the last few years, and we are looking forward to the challenge,” he added. Written by Ntsako Mkhari