The Official 10bet Lions Yearbook 2026

First South African Shield·First URC quarter-final·Champions Cup 2026/27

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Season Story

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In Loving Memory of Hyron Andrews

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THE OFFICIAL 10BET LIONS YEARBOOK 2026

The season the 10bet Lions won their first Vodacom United Rugby Championship silverware and qualified for Europe's premier club competition.

10bet DEEPENS ITS INVESTMENT IN SOUTH AFRICAN RUGBY AS OFFICIAL NAMING RIGHTS PARTNER OF THE 10BET LIONS

A partnership that covers the stadium, the jersey and the name on the team sheet.

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Eight From Nine Was Your Record Too

To the supporters, supporters, suite holders and hospitality clients who filled Doornfontein.

Red and black: the colours of a club that has never traded on charm.

A Johannesburg Club

Founded three years after the city itself, and recognisable in it ever since.

Beaten, not broken

Glasgow 29, 10bet Lions 20. The scoreline doesn't tell the story.

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The Night the All Blacks Came to Ellis Park

25 August 2026. 10bet Lions 35, All Blacks 41. Four pages from a fixture that belonged to the city rather than to any table.

The 2026 Season in Photographs

The Shield season, frame by frame.

The People Who Built the Season

A South African Shield, a first URC quarter-final and qualification for the Investec Champions Cup were delivered by twenty-two people whose names do not appear on a team sheet.

Francois Pienaar lifts the Currie Cup for Transvaal, 1993.

One Union, Five Names, 137 Years

The club that plays at 10bet Ellis Park today was founded when Johannesburg was three years old. This is the line that runs from there to here.

The Ground That Refused to Be Ordinary

Built in 1928 on land given by a man who never saw what it would become, 10bet Ellis Park has staged more South African rugby history than any other stadium in the country.

24 June 1995

There is no other rugby ground on earth that can claim what happened in Doornfontein that afternoon. This is the most important page in this book.

Ellis Park during the Shield-sealing win over the Stormers.

Doornfontein's People

The crowd that turned Ellis Park into the hardest ground in South African rugby to visit.

A Saturday in Doornfontein

What a 10bet Lions match day feels like, from the walk in to the final whistle.

Schools rugby in Gauteng: the pipeline that feeds the union.

Where the Next Ones Come From

Every player in the 2025/26 squad came through a school and a club before they came through the 10bet Lions.

From Craven Week to Ellis Park

Ten years ago three Johannesburg schoolboys packed down together for the 10bet Lions U18 side at Craven Week. Two are still 10bet Lions. One has just left for Durban. Here is how the pipeline works, school by school.