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Gender:Male

Est:1938

Blue Bulls

Also known as: Vodacom Blue Bulls

📍 Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa, South Africa•Currie Cup

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The Blue Bulls (Afrikaans: Blou Bulle), known for sponsorship reasons as the Vodacom Blue Bulls, is a South African rugby union team that participates in the annual Currie Cup tournament and the United Rugby Championship. They are governed by their second team the Vodacom Blue Bulls that participate in the ABSA Currie Cup and are based at Loftus Versfeld Stadium in Pretoria, Gauteng province. In 1997 the Northern Transvaal team, representing the Northern Transvaal Rugby Union (NTRU), was renamed, officially taking on their then nickname the Blue Bulls. The NTRU itself became the Blue Bulls Rugby Union and the United Rugby Championship team operated by the union was renamed simply the Bulls. When Vodacom became the team's major sponsor their name was added. Previously the side was sponsored by ExxonMobil and known as the Mobil Blue Bulls. Their main colour is blue and their emblem a bull's head and horns.

City:Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa

Country:South Africa

Stadium:Loftus Versfeld Stadium

Capacity:51,762

Home Venue

Loftus Versfeld Stadium

Capacity:51,762

Location:Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa

Loftus Versfeld Stadium is a rugby union and Association football (soccer) stadium situated in the Arcadia suburb of the city of Pretoria in the Gauteng province of South Africa. The stadium has a capacity of 51,762 for rugby union and it is occasionally used for football matches. The stadium is the home ground of the Bulls franchise of the Super Rugby tournament and the Blue Bulls union in South Africa's Currie Cup. It also hosted the 2009 Super 14 Final which the Bulls won 61–17 against the Waikato Chiefs, and the 2009 Currie Cup final, which the Bulls went on to win 36–24 against the Free State Cheetahs. Also, the South Africa national rugby union team has played several test matches at the Loftus Versfeld Stadium. They played New Zealand in 1970, 1996, 1999, 2003 and 2006, Australia in 1967, 1997, 2001, 2005, 2010 and 2012, England in 1994, 2000 and 2007, and Ireland in 1998. In June 2010, the stadium hosted opening round games and one game of the round of 16 of the 2010 FIFA World Cup.