Sacha Feinberg-Mngomezulu lights up United Rugby Championship

Sacha Feinberg-Mngomezulu is statistically the most prominent and influential South African player in this season’s United Rugby Championship.

Sacha Feinberg-Mngomezulu

The Stormers and Springboks No 10 features strongly in the biggest individual categories on attack, defence and kicking in the URC 2025/26 season statistics.

Feinberg-Mngomezulu and South Africa’s Lions No 10 Chris Smith are joint leaders for the most points scored in the regular season.

Both have 147 points, but Feinberg-Mngomezulu’s tally includes nine tries. Smith has scored one try. Feinberg-Mngomezulu has played 12 URC matches this season and Smith has played 16.

There is no category award for most points, with the category winners being most points scored with the boot and most tries scored.

Smith, with 142 points kicked, will finish tops.

Feinberg-Mngomezulu and Smith are the only two players to go past 100 points through kicks after 17 rounds. The 18th round this weekend is the final league round. The last eight play-offs start at the end of May.

Feinberg-Mngomezulu has beaten more defenders than any South African (48) and his 48 is joint top of the league’s list, alongside Ulster winger Jacob Stockdale.

Feinberg-Mngomezulu, his 48 defenders beaten, has also made five try assists and 10 offloads to rank seventh in the Playermaker category. South Africa’s Quan Horn can still win the overall Playmaker category. He is currently ranked third, with his teammate, namesake and captain Francke Horn in fifth place.

Bulls winger Sebastian de Klerk, who has missed the second half of the season because of injury, remains in fourth place. It emphasises his impact for the Bulls in the first half of the season. His statistics are more remarkable given it coincided with Bulls slump in which they lost several league matches in succession.

Feinberg-Mngomezulu, who won the South African United Rugby Championship Player of the Year award for the 2024/25 season, ranks joint fourth for tries scored (9) in the 2025/26 season.

Stormers No 8 Evan Roos leads the try-scorers with 12, with South Africa’s Ulster winger Werner Kok on 10. Bulls scrumhalf Embrose Papier has scored nine tries and there are several South African players in the top end of the category.

The popular Lions prop Asenathi Ntlabakanye has made the most tackles among South Africa players and is 11th overall. He has also missed just nine of 163 tackles attempted, for a 94.48 percent success rate.

Bulls loose-forward Jeandre Rudolph has won the most turnovers (17), with Stormers flank Paul de Villiers second (15). Hooker Marnus van der Merwe has won 14 turnover.

(Quan) Horn’s remarkable conditioning is illustrated with his game minutes in the Ironman category. Horn edges Stormers winger Leolin Zas into second with just one round to play. Just 10 minutes separate the two, who have both played all 17 league matches this season.