Grey Rugby Festival 2025 still in planning stage

21 Nov 24.

The Grey Rugby Festival 2025 is still in the fixture planning phase. The table below contains provisional fixtures from earlier in the week.

Grey traditionally alternates its festival dates between the start of the school holidays and the holiday period around the annual public holidays from 27 April to 1 May. In 2025, the festival will take place at the start of the holidays, overlapping with the high-profile NMI Toyota Noord-Suid tournament instead of the Absa Wildeklawer event.

As a result, Johannesburg’s leading boys’ schools, Jeppe and KES—regular participants at the Grey Easter Rugby Festival—have opted for the challenges of Noord-Suid in Stellenbosch. St John’s College are also out as they will tour the Eastern Cape earlier in the month of March 2025.

Among the Eastern Province schools, Brandwag and St Andrew’s College are notably absent. SAC has home fixtures against Bishops and Michaelhouse planned for the same period, while other local schools like Framesby and Nico Malan have committed to Noord-Suid as well.

Naturally the question that is almost certain to come up: Where is Dale College?

On the positive side, Grey has attracted an impressive contingent from KwaZulu-Natal, with no fewer than seven tier-one rugby schools from the Sharks region set to participate. Only Glenwood and Maritzburg College will be missing from the line-up.

There’s also a much-anticipated return for Selborne College from East London. Of course, when discussing rugby in a national context, few names in schoolboy rugby carry as much weight as Bishops. They are certain to be a major drawcard on matchday two!

GREY RUGBY FESTIVAL
Day 1 : Fri 29-Mar-2024
1	BOR	Queen’s	vs	St Stithians	LIO
2	BOR	Hudson Park	vs	Northwood	KZN
3	BUL	Pretoria BH	vs	Kearsney	KZN
4	EP	Graeme	vs	Hilton	KZN
5	EP	Kingswood	vs	Durban HS	KZN
6	BOR	Selborne	vs	Westville	KZN
7	EP	Grey HS	vs	Michaelhouse	KZN
8	KZN	St Charles	vs	Port Rex	BOR
9	EP	Ithembelihle	vs	Muir	EP
Day 2 : Sun 31-Mar-2024
1	KZN	Westville	vs	Hudson Park	BOR
2	EP	Kingswood	vs	Northwood	KZN
3	LIO	St Stithians	vs	Kearsney	KZN
4	WP	Bishops	vs	Michaelhouse	KZN
5	BOR	Queen’s	vs	Pretoria BH	BUL
6	BOR	Selborne	vs	Durban HS	KZN
7	EP	Grey HS	vs	Hilton	KZN
8	EP	Mali Foundation XV	vs	Port Rex	BOR
9	KZN	St Charles	vs	Muir	EP
10	EP	Ithembelihle	vs	TBA	TBA