2019 Rugby Challenge

2019 Rugby Challenge
CountriesSouth Africa
Date27 April – 22 June 2019
ChampionsGriquas (1st title)
Runners-upPumas
Matches played59
Tries scored557
(average 9.4 per match)
Top point scorerGeorge Whitehead, Griquas (95)
Top try scorerJamba Ulengo, Free State XV (10)

The 2019 Rugby Challenge – known as the SuperSport Rugby Challenge for sponsorship reasons – was the 2019 season of the Rugby Challenge, the secondary domestic rugby union competition in South Africa. It was the third edition of the competition organised by the South African Rugby Union and was played between 27 April and 22 June 2019. There were sixteen teams participating in the competition; the fourteen provincial unions, plus Namibian side the Welwitschias and the Zimbabwe Academy. These teams were divided into two sections, with eight teams playing in each of the North Section and the South Section.