Get all the stats and facts ahead of the Vodacom United Rugby Championship quarter-final between the Vodacom Bulls and Sharks at Loftus Versfeld on Saturday.

Overall URC head-to-head record: Played 4, Bulls won 2, Sharks won 2.

Did you know?

• Bulls have lost only one of their last nine United Rugby Championship fixtures: 17-19 at the Stormers on 9 April.

• Bulls have lost only twice at Loftus Versfeld in the Championship, to the Stormers in January and the Sharks in February.

• Bulls’ only previous appearance in a quarter-final round was in Super Rugby in 2019, losing 28-35 to the Hurricanes in Wellington.

• Cell C Sharks four game-winning run in the United Rugby Championship ended with their 21-24 defeat to Ulster in Belfast in Round 18.

•Sharks have lost just one of the six matches they played against fellow South African opponents in the Championship this campaign: 10-20 to the Stormers in Cape Town on 5 February.

•Sharks have played in four previous quarter-final fixtures, all away from home in successive Super Rugby seasons, 2016-2019, with all matches ending in defeat.

•The two sides have met on four previous occasions in the United Rugby Championship with Bulls winning both fixtures in the Rainbow Cup last season and Sharks taking both encounters in the 2021/22 campaign.

• Sharks have won just once at Loftus Versfeld since 2011: 29-22 in Round 12 of the United Rugby Championship.

•The two franchises have met just twice before in play-offs, both finals won by the Bulls, in Super Rugby in Durban in 2007 and in the Currie Cup in Pretoria in 2021.

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