 Rugby was first played in the Cape Colony around 1875 and 1889 saw the creation of South Africa's first rugby board.The first documented soccer matches were played in 1862 by white soldiers in Port Elizabeth and Cape Town and the South African Football Association was established in 1892.Soccer soon spread to other colonies in South Africa and matches were played in the Transvaal Colony and the Orange Free State in the late 1800s to the early 1900s.