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LIVE Rugby | World Schools Festival 2023 | Day 1 | 12 December 2023

LIVE Rugby | World Schools Festival 2023 | Day 2 | 13 December 2023

LIVE Rugby | World Schools Festival 2023 | Day 3 | 14 December 2023

LIVE Rugby | World Schools Festival 2023 | Day 4 | 15 December 2023

LIVE Rugby | World Schools Festival 2023 | Day 5 | 16 December 2023

LIVE Rugby | World Schools Festival 2023 | Day 6 | 17 December 2023

Highlights | Grey College vs Hamilton Boys | World Schools Festival Final

Highlights | Grey College vs Hamilton Boys | World Schools Festival Final

Rugby highlights from the final of the World Schools Festival as Grey College from South Africa take on Hamilton Boys High from New Zealand.

Highlights | Grey College vs Hamilton Boys | World Schools Festival Final

Rugby highlights from the final of the World Schools Festival as Grey College from South Africa take on Hamilton Boys High from New Zealand.

Highlights | Trinity vs RTA | World Schools Festival

Rugby highlights as Rugby Travel academy from South Africa take on Trinity School from England in the World Schools festival.

Highlights | St Michael's vs Sedbergh | World Schools Festival

Rugby highlights from the Shield Final of the World Schools Festival as Sedbergh School from England take on St Michael's College from Ireland. #wsf2022

Highlights | Odyssey XV vs RTA | World Schools Festival

Rugby highlights as invitational sides Odyssey XV and Rugby Travel Academy clash in the Open tournament of the World Schools Festival. #wsf2022

Highlights | Millfield vs Cardiff and Vale | World Schools Festival

Rugby highlights as Cardiff and Vale college take on Millfield school in the 3rd place playoff in the main cup competition of the World Schools Festival.

Grey College vs Hamilton Boys' | World Schools Festival Final

The final of The World Schools Festival sees Grey College from South Africa take on Hamilton Boys' High from New Zealand. #wsf2022

Highlights | Millfield vs Hamilton Boys' | World Schools Festival

Rugby highlights as Hamilton Boys' High from New Zealand take on Millfield School from England in a tense encounter in at the World Schools Festival. The winner would go on to take part in the final of the cup.

Highlights | Odyssey XV vs RTA | World Schools Festival

Rugby highlights from day 2 of the World Schools Festival as Odyssey look to get redemption to even out the series. Will they manage to do it or will Rugby Travel make it 2-0 and impossible for Odyssey to win?

Highlights | Grey College vs Cardiff and Vale | World Schools Festival

Rugby highlights from day 2 of the World Schools Festival cup semi finals as Grey College take on Cardiff and Vale in a nailbiting, to the encounter.

Highlights | Trinity vs St Michael's | World Schools Festival

Rugby highlights from day 2 of the World Schools Festival sees the English and Irish schools champions take each other on to set the record straight.

Highlights | Sedbergh vs RTA | World Schools Festival

Rugby highlights from day 2 of the World Schools Festival as Sedbergh School took on South African invitational side Rugby Travel Academy. Both sides battled it out in an action packed game with plenty of drama.

Highlights | South Africa and Fiji invitational sides go at it | SA Rugby Travel vs Odyssey XV

Rugby highlights from Day 1 of the World Schools Festival open tournament as SA Rugby Travel took on Odyssey XV in the very first game of the tournament.

Highlights | Top sides in English schools rugby battle it out In Thailand | Millfield vs Sedbergh

Rugby highlights from Day 1 of the World Schools Festival as Millfield School and Sedbergh school clashed in a double header clash which doubled up as the final of The Schools Championship.

Highlights | The top sides in Irish and Welsh schools rugby clash | St Michael's vs Cardiff and Vale

Rugby highlights from Day 1 of the World Schools Festival as St Michael's from Ireland took on Cardiff and Vale college from Wales. The game saw two of the top sides in their country come face to face.

Highlights | Hamilton Boy's show their class again Odyssey XV | World Schools Festival 2022

Rugby highlights from Day 1 of the World Schools Festival as Hamilton Boy's High from New Zealand took on invitational team Odyssey XV. Hamilton, champions of New Zealand schools rugby showed their class in this encounter.

Highlights | Grey College show their power against the top side in England | Grey vs Trinity School

Rugby highlights from Day 1 of the World Schools Festival as Trinity School from England took on Grey College from South Africa. There was much to play for in this game and both sides brought physicality and flair to the game.

Here are the teams at the World Schools Festival rugby tournament 2022

Here are your sides for the World Schools Festival 2022. Hamilton Boys' High, Trinity College, Grey College, Cardiff and Vale, Odyssey XV, Millfield, St Michael's College and Sedbergh School all go toe to toe to see who is the best rugby school in th

Schools arrive for World Schools Festival 2022

Top rugby sides from around the globe land in Thailand as they prepare for The World Schools Festival 2022. #wsf2022

Trinity School prepare for the World Schools Festival

English school, Trinity prepare for the World Schools Festival.

South African side Grey College send off their team to the World Schools Festival

The famous Grey College send off their team as they prepare for the World Schools Festival in Thailand. The South African college will take on eight of the best rugby sides in the world from the 13th-17th December.

Highlights | Millfield bring the powerful rugby | Millfield vs Whitgift | The Schools Championship

Rugby highlights as Millfield School take on Whitgift in The Schools Championship. Millfield continue their preparations for The World Schools Festival in December as Whitgift look to pick up their 6th win of the season.

Napier Boys High School Haka | World Schools Festival 2019

Footage of the Napier Boys High School in Thailand as they took part in the haka.

Grey College vs Hartpury | World Schools Festival 2019

Footage from Grey College as they took on Harpury College in the 2019 World Schools Festival.

Paarl Boys High School vs Argentina | World Schools Festival 2019

Footage from Paarl Boys High School as they took on Argentina in the World Schools Festival in 2019.

RECAP: World Schools Festival 2018

Greats of the rugby world give their take on The World Schools Festival in 2018.

RECAP: World Schools Festival 2019

Catch up on all the highlights from the 2019 World Schools Festival.

Can Wellington beat the top school in England | Wellington v Millfield | The Schools Championship

Rugby highlights from The Schools Championship in England as Wellington host Millfield. Both schools are looking for a big win to lift them to the top of the 4-team competition.

Wellington announce themselves | Whitgift vs Wellington | The Schools Championship | Highlights

The Schools Championship highlights as we see round 2 begin with Whitgift vs Wellington . Both sides are looking for a big match after tough results in their first weekend of the season.

Sedbergh rugby are the team to beat | Sedbergh vs Whitgift | The Schools Championship

The Schools Championship rugby highlights as Sedbergh school took on Whitfgift school in the first official match of the new competition, The Schools Championship.

Clifton College vs Millfield | The Schools Championship | Rugby Highlights

Rugby highlights from the hotly anticipated Schools Championship began this weekend in Sedbergh. Millfield and Clifton took each other on before the first game of TSC took place between Sedbergh and Whitgift.

Cardiff & Vale College (Wales)
The school from Wales nearly stunned Grey College in the 2022 iteration of the World School’s Festival. With powerful units and promising talent around the side. The team in blue will be hoping to push to win the competition this year.

Hartpury College (England)
Some of the greats of British rugby have honed their skills at Hartpury college, from Louis Rees-Zammit to Jonny May. The side from the South West of England will be hoping to carry English hopes in this truly global competition in 2023. The side last took part in the festival in 2018, where they took on the very best from South Africa.

Eton College (England)
The 2023 World School’s Festival will be graced with Eton College for the very first time in its history. The side from Windsor are currently flying high in the English competitions and will be hoping to make a serious make on the tournament in Thailand.

St Michael’s College (Ireland)
St Michael’s can rightly call themselves the top rugby school in Ireland in 2023 after beating close rivals Blackrock College. The team impressed millions of viewers in last year’s competition. They will be hoping to go one even better this year.

DR.E.G Jansen (South Africa)
EG Jansen from Gauteng will come to the WSF with high hopes after a successful season where the highlights were a 41-17 victory over Monnas and a runners-up spot in the Noordvaal Cup.

The EG Jansen squad will include their U16 class of 2022 when they ranked No3 in South Africa (behind Grey College and Paul Roos Gimnasium) and were unbeaten.

They will be a dark horse at this year’s World Schools, and a force in the South African schools rugby season in 2024 – do not be surprised to see them finish as a top-three team. In 2023 they ranked top 10 in South Africa despite the majority of the players being grade 11. This is a generational side.


DR.E.G Jansen (South Africa)
EG Jansen from Gauteng will come to the WSF with high hopes after a successful season where the highlights were a 41-17 victory over Monnas and a runners-up spot in the Noordvaal Cup.

The EG Jansen squad will include their U16 class of 2022 when they ranked No3 in South Africa (behind Grey College and Paul Roos Gimnasium) and were unbeaten.

They will be a dark horse at this year’s World Schools, and a force in the South African schools rugby season in 2024 – do not be surprised to see them finish as a top-three team. In 2023 they ranked top 10 in South Africa despite the majority of the players being grade 11. This is a generational side.

Westlake Boys High School (New Zealand)
Westlake Boys’ High School will carry New Zealand hopes of taking the World Schools Festival title back, with Hamilton Boys unable to join them in Thailand to defend the Cup they won in 2022 with a dominated display defeating Grey College in the Final.

Westlake were narrowly defeated in the New Zealand Schools Final, having won through against Sacred Heart in Auckland Blues 1A regional play off, and retaining they won in 2022.

Oakdale Landbouskool (South Africa)
Oakdale Landbou, from the Western Cape region have a long and widely respected tradition in South African rugby. Playing in the Western Cape region, considered as one of the strongest and most competitive school rugby regions in the world, they are highly regarded. They travel to Thailand at the end of the school’s 95th Anniversary year, and a season which saw them defeat Paarl Boys’ High School in their domestic season.

Alongside EG Jansen, South Africa’s challenge is squarely laid down as they look to do follow the Springboks World Cup in November.

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