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The top 12 best rugby schools in the world 2024 – RANKED!
Mar 3, 2025
Our resident experts, Angus Savage and Tom Pulley of Next Gen XV, cast their eye over the best rugby-playing schools in 2024. But who will make the 2025 list?
What makes the school game so different to the professional game is that every year is a clean slate. Pupils finish their time at school, a new team is pulled together and how they will perform is often not what you expect.
School seasons also vary by hemisphere. The 2024 season is over in the South while we’re halfway through the 2024-25 northern hemisphere season. All of which goes some way to explaining why more than half of the schools that make this year’s list didn’t feature in 2023. Plenty has changed!
1 Paul Roos Gimnasium, South Africa
The undisputed best school side in South Africa in 2024. And if you’re the best in South Africa, you’re going to be knocking pretty hard on the door to be considered as the best in the world. It was a stunning 2024 for Paul Roos, who weren’t even in the Top 12 in 2023.
They defeated two other South African giants on this list, Paarl Gim and Grey College, to go through the season unbeaten. Their crowning glory came in their final game at home to Grey College, when they sealed a stunning 36-3 victory to secure the unbeaten record and condemned their opponents to their heaviest-ever defeat by a fellow South African school.
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