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The Vodacom Cup was an annual rugby union competition in South Africa. Annual Vodacom Cup competitions were played between its inaugural season in 1998 and 2015 and was contested between February and May each year. Mobile communications provider Vodacom was the title sponsor for the entire duration of the competition. The competition was the third most prestigious competition in South African, behind Super Rugby and the Currie Cup. It was contested at roughly the same time as Super Rugby each season and featured a combination of Super Rugby players returning from injury, reserve players attempting to maintain their fitness levels and younger players trying to break through to the Super Rugby or Currie Cup sides. It therefore served as an important developmental competition for South African rugby. The competition was held every season between the fourteen South African rugby unions, but several additional teams also took part during the competition's history. The , officially a sub-union of the , took part as a separate team between 2013 and 2015. Namibian side the played in the competition between 1999 and 2001, in 2010, 2011 and in 2015. Argentine side participated in the competition between 2010 and 2013 and a from Kenya competed in 2014.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Official Home of the Springboks )〕 The most successful teams in the history of the competition were and the , each winning it on five occasions. The Golden Lions also managed to win the competition for three consecutive seasons between 2002 and 2004. Between 2001 and 2004, the competition was split into two tier, with the top half of teams competing for the Vodacom Cup and the bottom half competing for the Vodacom Shield. The final edition of the competition was in 2015, with SARU deciding to restructure the domestic competitions from the 2016 season onwards. ==Teams== The results of the teams that participated in the Vodacom Cup throughout the competition's history is as follows: 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Vodacom Cup」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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