Overview
- World Rugby named the 2025 award shortlists on Tuesday, placing four Springboks across two marquee categories.
- Pieter-Steph du Toit, Malcolm Marx and Ox Nche are up for Men’s 15s Player of the Year alongside France’s Louis Bielle-Biarrey.
- Ethan Hooker features on the Men’s 15s Breakthrough shortlist with New Zealand’s Fabian Holland, England’s Henry Pollock and Australia’s Joseph Suaalii.
- Du Toit enters as a two-time winner from 2019 and 2024, while Marx receives his second career nomination after 2018.
- SA Rugby president Mark Alexander congratulated the quartet, and World Rugby will confirm winners on Saturday before unveiling the Dream Team on Tuesday, 25 November.