On Wednesday, the Toyota Cheetahs will travel to Amsterdam for their first 2024/25 EPCR Challenge Cup match against the French side from Perpignan, USAP. The game in Nederland kicks off at 15:00 (SA time) on Sunday, 8 December, and all the games will be live on SuperSport.
From Amsterdam, the team travels to Wales for their next match on Saturday, 14 December, at 22:00 (SA time) against Cardiff Rugby at Cardiff Arms Park before returning home for the Christmas break.
The Toyota Cheetahs will host Zebre Parma at the NRCA Stadium in Amsterdam on Sunday, 12 January and play against Lyon to round off their pool stage fixtures on 18 January 2025 in France.
One of the EPCR's conditions for the Toyota Cheetahs' participation in the EPCR Challenge Cup is that the team is based in Europe and will, therefore, be playing the Round 1 and 3 home games at the NRCA Stadium in Amsterdam. Free State Rugby is grateful to Rugby Nederland for sharing their home ground with another team in orange.
Toyota Cheetahs Touring Squad:
Forwards: Aranos Coetzee, Schalk Ferreira, Corne Fourie, Robert Hunt, Daniel Maartens, Oupa Mohoje, Friedle Olivier, Vernon Paulo, Jeandre Rudolph, Victor Sekekete, Pierre Uys, Henus van Wyk, Gideon van der Merwe, Louis van der Westhuizen, Laurence Victor, Carl Wegner.
Backs: Michael Annies, Carel-Jan Coetzee, Ruben de Haas, Munier Hartzenberg, Marco Janse van Vuren, Cohen Jasper, Rewan Kruger, George Lourens, Ali Mgijima, Prince Nkabinde, Ethan Wentzel.