Rascasse Audience Intelligence

Rugby World Cup Audience in South Africa

A data profile of the people who buy, follow and care about Rugby World Cup in South Africa — modelled from more than twelve digital signal sources. Rugby World Cup has an estimated audience of 1,298,396 people in South Africa.

#2among Rugby in South Africa
#7among Event in South Africa
#44in Sports

Rugby World Cup has an estimated audience of 1,298,396 people in South Africa. 51.5% are female, 48.5% are male, average age 37.5. Top brand affinities: Super Rugby, Springbok, Springboks, News24, Rugby sevens.

Top brand affinities include Super Rugby, Springbok, Springboks, with strongest over-indexing on Super Rugby (3.62× the country average).

Demographically, the Rugby World Cup audience skews balanced with an average age of 37.5, and over-indexes on personality traits such as Patriotism, Social Media Usage.

The typical Rugby World Cup fan in South Africa is balanced, around 37.5 years old, with strong Patriotism tendencies and a notable affinity for Super Rugby.

Category: Sports · Type: Event · Subtype: Rugby

The data on this page comes from the Rascasse audience panel and is refreshed monthly from search, social and browsing signals. As of 2026-08-18.

Section 01

At a glance

The key figures that characterise the Rugby World Cup profile in South Africa.

Audience size
1.3M
in South Africa
Gender
51.5%
48.5% male
Age
37.5
average years
Country rank
#553
Event in South Africa
Fig. 01

Search interest · 12-month trend

+42%
vs. last year
JanMarMayJulSepNov
Monthly searches · Source: Rascasse Audience Intelligence
Section 02

Demographics of Rugby World Cup fans

51.5% are female, 48.5% are male, average age 37.5.

Fig. 02

Gender split

51.5%
Female
48.5%
Male
Demographic split for Rugby World Cup audience in South Africa
MetricValue
Female51.5%
Male48.5%
Average age37.5
Estimated audience size1,298,396
Fig. 03

Age distribution

Ø 37.5
average years
Age distribution of the Rugby World Cup audience in South Africa
Age bracketShare%
16-1922%
20-2925%
30-3919%
40-4914%
50+20%
Fig. 04

Worldwide distribution

7.4%

of the worldwide Rugby World Cup audience comes from South Africa.

Worldwide audience distribution share by country for Rugby World Cup
CountryShare
United States18.5%
United Kingdom18.0%
France11.1%
Section 04
Brands and entities this audience over-indexes on, vs. the country average.

Audience interests & affinities

The strongest cross-interests of the Rugby World Cup audience — brands, topics and people combined.

Fig. 07

Top cross-interests, ranked by affinity

Top brand affinities (over-index vs. country average) for Rugby World Cup audience
#·InterestCategoryAffinity×
01Six Nations ChampionshipSports6.83×
02English Premiership (rugby union)Sports6.20×
03Currie CupSports5.78×
04South African Rugby UnionSports5.30×
05Rugby sevensSports5.28×
06National Rugby LeagueSports5.21×
07Blue BullsSports3.79×
08Super RugbySports3.62×
09StormersSports3.62×
10SpringbokSports3.12×
11rugbySports3.00×
12SpringboksSports2.95×
13Carlos AlcarazSports2.20×
14Jannik SinnerSports2.20×
15HuisgenootNews2.15×
16Daily MaverickNews1.97×
17SA20Sports1.95×
18News24News1.58×
19GmailInternet & Social Media1.58×
20Manchester City F.C.Sports1.53×
Section 05
Top six personality traits over-indexed by this audience (1.0 = country average).

Personality of the Rugby World Cup audience

Values above 1.00× are above the country average, values below 1.00× below it.

Fig. 08

Deviation from the national baseline

What stands out
The strongest tendencies
Top personality traits over-indexed by Rugby World Cup audience · What stands out
TraitClusterDeviationScore
PatriotismCONSERVATISM1.80×
Social Media UsageJOY1.21×
Healthy LifestyleBALANCE0.62×
1.00× baseline
Rather not
The weakest tendencies
Top personality traits over-indexed by Rugby World Cup audience · Rather not
TraitClusterDeviationScore
TravellingTHRILL0.47×
SpiritualityBALANCE0.59×
Healthy LifestyleBALANCE0.62×
1.00× baseline
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How to read this data

Audience size is the estimated number of people in South Africa who actively search for Rugby World Cup. Affinity is an over-index ratio: 2.0× means the audience is twice as likely to engage with that brand or trait as the country average. Reach is the estimated number of audience members in a region. Regional and brand-affinity tables are sorted from strongest signal to weakest.

About this audience profile

This audience profile is generated by Rascasse from anonymized search-behavior signals across South Africa. For methodology see methodology. Affinity values are over-index ratios vs. the country average (1.0 = baseline). Audience sizes are estimated, not measured.

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