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Sharks XV

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1890 (135 years old)

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Hollywoodbets Kings Park Stadium

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tiny league badge icon 05 Sep Sharks XV tiny home badge icon 19 - 13 tiny away badge icon Pumas
tiny league badge icon 30 Aug Sharks XV tiny home badge icon 33 - 31 tiny away badge icon Boland Ca
tiny league badge icon 22 Aug Sharks XV tiny home badge icon 29 - 21 tiny away badge icon Western P
tiny league badge icon 15 Aug Griquas tiny home badge icon 26 - 17 tiny away badge icon Sharks XV
tiny league badge icon 09 Aug Sharks XV tiny home badge icon 5 - 7 tiny away badge icon Free Stat

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The Sharks (Afrikaans: Haai), known as the Hollywoodbets Sharks for sponsorship reasons, are a South African rugby union team that participates in the annual Currie Cup tournament. The Sharks are the current representative team of the KwaZulu-Natal Rugby Union and they draw some of their players from the KwaZulu-Natal Province. For most of their history, the team was known simply as 'Natal', with a nickname of 'The Banana Boys' or Piesangboere in Afrikaans, until the mid-1990s when they were re-branded as the Sharks.

The team is the fourth most successful provincial union in the Currie Cup, having won the competition nine times. Natal won its first Currie Cup in 1990, the same year the union celebrated its centenary. Since then the Sharks have won the Currie Cup in 1992, 1995, 1996, 2008, 2010, 2013, 2018 and most recently in 2024.

KwaZulu-Natal Rugby are a minority owner of the Sharks franchise who compete in the United Rugby Championship. MVM Holdings are the majority owner of the Sharks franchise. They also play in Durban and represent the province of KwaZulu-Natal. For most of Super Rugby history, the Sharks Super Rugby franchise drew players from a much larger area than the Sharks provincial union, with the rugby unions of Border, based in East London and Eastern Province from Port Elizabeth included in the Sharks franchise. In 2013 the Southern Kings functioned on its own, but has since been abolished and continue to supply a large contingent of players to the Sharks franchise.
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