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UJ Women

rugby team

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 20, 2025
Entity authorityQ125958073 ↗
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The University of Johannesburg Women's Rugby union team, commonly known as UJ Women, is the women's rugby union club representing the University of Johannesburg based in Auckland Park, Gauteng who compete in the FNB Women's Varsity Cup and the Castle Lager Pirates Grand Challenge.

Rugby 15's

They were runners-up in the inaugural FNB Women's Varsity Cup after a 63-9 defeat to Maties Women.

The team plays also competes in the Castle Lager Pirates Grand Challenge.

Rugby 7's

UJ Women's Rugby Sevens team, also UJ Women's 7s, is the rugby sevens club representing the University of Johannesburg based in Johannesburg, Gauteng.

They were crowned the 2022 Varsity Women’s 7s champions after defeating the University of Fort Hare 17-5 in the final.

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Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2022—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Women, rugby and team can be independently traced.
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This entry incorporates text from “UJ Women” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.