| 2007 Currie Cup First Division | |
| Countries: | South Africa |
| Date: | 22 June – 6 October 2007 |
| Count: | 2 |
| Promoted: | None |
| Matches: | 33 |
| Tries: | 233 |
| Top Point Scorer: | PD Terblanche (129) |
| Top Try Scorer: | Cecil Afrika (11) |
| Prevseason: | 2006 |
| Nextseason: | 2008 |
The 2007 Currie Cup First Division was contested from 22 June to 6 October 2007. The tournament (also known as the Absa Currie Cup First Division for sponsorship reasons) is the second tier of South Africa's premier domestic rugby union competition, featuring teams representing either entire provinces or substantial regions within provinces.
There were six participating teams in the 2007 Currie Cup First Division. These teams played each other twice over the course of the season, once at home and once away.
Teams received four points for a win and two points for a draw. Bonus points were awarded to teams that scored 4 or more tries in a game, as well as to teams losing a match by 7 points or less. Teams were ranked by points, then points difference (points scored less points conceded).
The top 4 teams qualified for the title play-offs. In the semifinals, the team that finished first had home advantage against the team that finished fourth, while the team that finished second had home advantage against the team that finished third. The winners of these semi-finals played each other in the final, at the home venue of the higher-placed team.
The top two teams on the log also qualified for the promotion/relegation play-offs. The team that finished first played off against the team placed eighth in the 2007 Currie Cup Premier Division and the team that finished second played off against the team that finished seventh in the Premier Division. The two winners over these two ties (determined via team tables, with all Currie Cup ranking regulations in effect) qualified for the 2008 Currie Cup Premier Division, while the losing teams qualified for the 2008 Currie Cup First Division.
| 2007 Currie Cup First Division teams | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Team | Sponsored Name | Stadium/s | Sponsored Name | |
| Bulldogs | ABSA Stadium | |||
| Griffons | North West Stadium | |||
| Impala Leopards | Santam Olën Park | |||
| British Airways Mighty Elephants | EPRU Stadium | |||
| Witbank Mica Pumas | Witbank Mica Stadium | |||
| SWD Eagles | Outeniqua Park | |||
| Team Progression – 2007 Currie Cup First Division | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Team | R1 | R2 | R3 | R4 | R5 | R6 | R7 | R8 | R9 | R10 | R11 | R12 | SF | F | |||||||||||||||
| align=left | style="background:#E8FFD8;" | 4 (4th) | style="background:#E8FFD8;" | 9 (2nd) | style="background:#E8FFD8;" | 13 (1st) | style="background:#E8FFD8;" | 18 (1st) | style="background:#E8FFD8;" | 22 (1st) | style="background:#ECECEC;" | 22 (1st) | style="background:#E8FFD8;" | 27 (1st) | style="background:#E8FFD8;" | 32 (1st) | style="background:#E8FFD8;" | 36 (1st) | style="background:#E8FFD8;" | 41 (1st) | style="background:#FFCCCC;" | 41 (1st) | style="background:#E8FFD8;" | Won | style="background:#E8FFD8;" | Won | |||
| align=left | style="background:#E8FFD8;" | 5 (1st) | style="background:#FFCCCC;" | 6 (2nd) | style="background:#E8FFD8;" | 10 (1st) | style="background:#FFCCCC;" | 11 (3rd) | style="background:#ECECEC;" | 11 (3rd) | style="background:#FFCCCC;" | 12 (4th) | style="background:#E8FFD8;" | 16 (3rd) | style="background:#E8FFD8;" | 20 (3rd) | style="background:#FFCCCC;" | 21 (3rd) | style="background:#E8FFD8;" | 26 (2nd) | style="background:#ECECEC;" | 26 (2nd) | style="background:#E8FFD8;" | 30 (2nd) | style="background:#E8FFD8;" | Won | style="background:#FFCCCC;" | Lost | |
| align=left | style="background:#E8FFD8;" | 4 (2nd) | style="background:#E8FFD8;" | 9 (1st) | style="background:#FFCCCC;" | 9 (3rd) | style="background:#E8FFD8;" | 13 (2nd) | style="background:#ECECEC;" | 13 (2nd) | style="background:#E8FFD8;" | 18 (2nd) | style="background:#97DEFF;" | 21 (2nd) | style="background:#FFCCCC;" | 22 (2nd) | style="background:#FFCCCC;" | 22 (2nd) | style="background:#FFCCCC;" | 22 (3rd) | style="background:#ECECEC;" | 22 (4th) | style="background:#E8FFD8;" | 27 (3rd) | style="background:#FFCCCC;" | Lost | |||
| align=left | style="background:#E8FFD8;" | 5 (3rd) | style="background:#FFCCCC;" | 6 (4th) | style="background:#FFCCCC;" | 7 (4th) | style="background:#97DEFF;" | 9 (4th) | style="background:#FFCCCC;" | 10 (5th) | style="background:#ECECEC;" | 10 (5th) | style="background:#E8FFD8;" | 14 (5th) | style="background:#E8FFD8;" | 19 (4th) | style="background:#FFCCCC;" | 20 (4th) | style="background:#E8FFD8;" | 25 (3rd) | style="background:#FFCCCC;" | 26 (4th) | style="background:#ECECEC;" | Lost | |||||
| align=left | style="background:#FFCCCC;" | 1 (3rd) | style="background:#FFCCCC;" | 1 (5th) | style="background:#ECECEC;" | 1 (5th) | style="background:#E8FFD8;" | 6 (5th) | style="background:#FFCCCC;" | 7 (5th) | style="background:#E8FFD8;" | 12 (3rd) | style="background:#97DEFF;" | 15 (4th) | style="background:#FFCCCC;" | 16 (4th) | style="background:#ECECEC;" | 16 (5th) | style="background:#FFCCCC;" | 16 (5th) | style="background:#FFCCCC;" | 16 (5th) | style="background:#E8FFD8;" | 21 (5th) | |||||
| align=left | style="background:#FFCCCC;" | 1 (4th) | style="background:#FFCCCC;" | 1 (6th) | style="background:#ECECEC;" | 1 (6th) | style="background:#FFCCCC;" | 2 (6th) | style="background:#97DEFF;" | 4 (6th) | style="background:#FFCCCC;" | 5 (6th) | style="background:#FFCCCC;" | 6 (6th) | style="background:#FFCCCC;" | 6 (6th) | style="background:#ECECEC;" | 6 (6th) | style="background:#E8FFD8;" | 11 (6th) | style="background:#FFCCCC;" | 12 (6th) | style="background:#FFCCCC;" | 13 (6th) | |||||
The table above shows a team's progression throughout the season. For each round, each team's cumulative points total is shown with the overall log position in brackets. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Key: | win | draw | loss | bye | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
The results of all the matches played in the 2007 Currie Cup First Division were as follows:
All times are South African (GMT+2).
The following table contain points which have been scored in the 2007 Currie Cup First Division.
| All point scorers | |||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No | Player | Team | T | C | P | DG | Pts< | -- Pos | Player | Team | Try | Con | Pen | DG | Pts--> |
| 1 | align=left | PD Terblanche | align=left | Griffons | 1 | 29 | 22 | 0 | 129 | ||||||
| 2 | align=left | Chris Jonck | align=left | Mighty Elephants | 1 | 26 | 17 | 0 | 108 | ||||||
| 3 | align=left | Corné Meyer | align=left | Leopards | 3 | 16 | 9 | 2 | 80 | ||||||
| 4 | align=left | align=left | SWD Eagles | 3 | 15 | 9 | 0 | 72 | |||||||
| 5 | align=left | Riaan Smit | align=left | Pumas | 1 | 12 | 12 | 0 | 65 | ||||||
| 6 | align=left | align=left | Border Bulldogs | 6 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 57 | |||||||
| 7 | align=left | Cecil Afrika | align=left | Griffons | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 55 | ||||||
| 8 | align=left | align=left | Border Bulldogs | 0 | 11 | 11 | 0 | 55 | |||||||
| 9 | align=left | Danie de Beer | align=left | SWD Eagles | 2 | 10 | 7 | 1 | 54 | ||||||
| 10 | align=left | Anvor Schooney | align=left | Leopards | 6 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 47 | ||||||
| 11 | align=left | Norman Nelson | align=left | Mighty Elephants | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 40 | ||||||
| 12 | align=left | align=left | SWD Eagles | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 35 | |||||||
| align=left | Japie Nel | align=left | Griffons | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 35 | |||||||
| align=left | align=left | SWD Eagles | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 35 | ||||||||
| 15 | align=left | Kennedy Tsimba | align=left | Pumas | 1 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 26 | ||||||
| 16 | align=left | align=left | Pumas | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 25 | |||||||
| align=left | align=left | Leopards | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 25 | ||||||||
| align=left | align=left | Leopards | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 25 | ||||||||
| 19 | align=left | align=left | Pumas | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 20 | |||||||
| align=left | align=left | Griffons | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 20 | ||||||||
| align=left | align=left | Mighty Elephants | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 20 | ||||||||
| align=left | Bom Samaai | align=left | Leopards | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 20 | |||||||
| align=left | Luvo Sogidashe | align=left | Mighty Elephants | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 20 | |||||||
| 24 | align=left | Ashwin Scott | align=left | SWD Eagles | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 18 | ||||||
| 25 | align=left | align=left | Pumas | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 17 | |||||||
| 26 | align=left | align=left | Mighty Elephants | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15 | |||||||
| align=left | Jaun de Wit | align=left | Griffons | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15 | |||||||
| align=left | Christiaan Els | align=left | Pumas | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15 | |||||||
| align=left | align=left | Griffons | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 15 | ||||||||
| align=left | align=left | Leopards | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15 | ||||||||
| align=left | RW Kember | align=left | Mighty Elephants | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15 | |||||||
| align=left | align=left | SWD Eagles | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15 | ||||||||
| align=left | Fabian Juries | align=left | Mighty Elephants | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15 | |||||||
| align=left | align=left | Griffons | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15 | ||||||||
| align=left | align=left | Pumas | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15 | ||||||||
| align=left | Izak Saayman | align=left | SWD Eagles | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15 | |||||||
| align=left | Fabian Smith | align=left | Mighty Elephants | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15 | |||||||
| align=left | align=left | SWD Eagles | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15 | ||||||||
| align=left | Vuyo Zangqa | align=left | Border Bulldogs | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15 | |||||||
| 40 | align=left | Rudi Vogt | align=left | Pumas | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 14 | ||||||
| 41 | align=left | Stuart Hudson | align=left | Border Bulldogs | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 12 | ||||||
| 42 | align=left | Clayton Durand | align=left | Leopards | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 11 | ||||||
| 43 | align=left | Jaco Bouwer | align=left | Leopards | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | ||||||
| align=left | align=left | Pumas | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | ||||||||
| align=left | align=left | SWD Eagles | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | ||||||||
| align=left | align=left | Mighty Elephants | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | ||||||||
| align=left | William Fick | align=left | Mighty Elephants | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | |||||||
| align=left | align=left | Pumas | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | ||||||||
| align=left | align=left | Border Bulldogs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | ||||||||
| align=left | Morné Kruger | align=left | Pumas | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | |||||||
| align=left | Ruan Lamprecht | align=left | Pumas | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | |||||||
| align=left | Elroy Ligman | align=left | Mighty Elephants | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | |||||||
| align=left | Colin Lloyd | align=left | Leopards | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | |||||||
| align=left | align=left | Pumas | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | ||||||||
| align=left | Pieter Loots | align=left | Border Bulldogs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | |||||||
| align=left | Sarel Louw | align=left | Griffons | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | |||||||
| align=left | Sasha Marot | align=left | Pumas | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | |||||||
| align=left | Stevie Meyer | align=left | Griffons | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | |||||||
| align=left | Kaunda Ntunja | align=left | Border Bulldogs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | |||||||
| align=left | align=left | Pumas | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | ||||||||
| align=left | align=left | Griffons | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | ||||||||
| align=left | align=left | Border Bulldogs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | ||||||||
| align=left | Hyron Thyse | align=left | Pumas | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | |||||||
| align=left | Hannes Tredoux | align=left | Griffons | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | |||||||
| align=left | align=left | SWD Eagles | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | ||||||||
| align=left | align=left | Mighty Elephants | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | ||||||||
| align=left | align=left | Border Bulldogs | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 10 | ||||||||
| align=left | align=left | Border Bulldogs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | ||||||||
| 69 | align=left | Liaan Scriven | align=left | Mighty Elephants | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 8 | ||||||
| 70 | align=left | Jannie Viljoen | align=left | SWD Eagles | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 6 | ||||||
| 71 | align=left | Morné Basson | align=left | Leopards | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | ||||||
| align=left | Deon Booysen | align=left | Mighty Elephants | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | |||||||
| align=left | Willie Bower | align=left | Mighty Elephants | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | |||||||
| align=left | align=left | Griffons | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | ||||||||
| align=left | align=left | Griffons | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | ||||||||
| align=left | Ashley Buys | align=left | SWD Eagles | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | |||||||
| align=left | Barend du Plessis | align=left | Pumas | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | |||||||
| align=left | Jaco du Toit | align=left | Griffons | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | |||||||
| align=left | align=left | Border Bulldogs | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | ||||||||
| align=left | align=left | Border Bulldogs | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | ||||||||
| align=left | Stephan Gerber | align=left | Pumas | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | |||||||
| align=left | Henry Grimes | align=left | SWD Eagles | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | |||||||
| align=left | Sean Johnson | align=left | Pumas | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | |||||||
| align=left | Andries Kruger | align=left | Griffons | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | |||||||
| align=left | align=left | Pumas | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | ||||||||
| align=left | Andries Mahoney | align=left | Leopards | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | |||||||
| align=left | Warren Malgas | align=left | SWD Eagles | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | |||||||
| align=left | Danzel Manuel | align=left | Pumas | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | |||||||
| align=left | align=left | SWD Eagles | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | ||||||||
| align=left | Lonwabo Mtimka | align=left | Border Bulldogs | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | |||||||
| align=left | align=left | SWD Eagles | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | ||||||||
| align=left | Lungelo Payi | align=left | Border Bulldogs | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | |||||||
| align=left | align=left | SWD Eagles | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | ||||||||
| align=left | align=left | Border Bulldogs | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | ||||||||
| align=left | align=left | SWD Eagles | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | ||||||||
| align=left | align=left | Pumas | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | ||||||||
| align=left | align=left | Griffons | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | ||||||||
| align=left | align=left | Border Bulldogs | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | ||||||||
| align=left | align=left | Griffons | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | ||||||||
| align=left | align=left | Mighty Elephants | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | ||||||||
| align=left | BW van Dyk | align=left | Leopards | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | |||||||
| align=left | align=left | Griffons | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | ||||||||
| align=left | align=left | Leopards | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | ||||||||
| align=left | align=left | Pumas | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | ||||||||
| align=left | align=left | SWD Eagles | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | ||||||||
| align=left | Theo van Wyk | align=left | Leopards | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | |||||||
| 107 | align=left | Marcel du Toit | align=left | Griffons | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | ||||||
| – | align=left | penalty try | align=left | SWD Eagles | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | ||||||
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