South Africa will host the next two the World Rugby U20 Championships, in 2023 and 2024, the global governing body and SA Rugby announced on Thursday.
Meanwhile, Kenya was awarded the World U20 Trophy tournament as the best junior players will head to Africa this year.
After three cancelled editions as a result of the pandemic between 2020 and 2022, rugby’s two biggest U20 tournaments for men are returning in 2023 and will feature the world’s best young talents in rugby’s bicentenary year. The teams are divided into three pools as they aim to clinch the coveted title and succeed two-time defending champions France, while the team finishing in last place will be relegated to next year’s World U20 Trophy. The Junior Boks will face Argentina, Italy and Georgia in Pool C.
The showpiece tournaments, first held in 2008, have seen almost 1 500 players go on to make their Test debut after playing on this stage, including 28 World Cup winners such as Springboks Handré Pollard, Steven Kitshoff and Pieter-Steph du Toit.
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