{"id":21170,"date":"2025-10-16T19:14:58","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T19:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/thomas-du-toit-to-leave-bath-for-former-club-next-summer\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T19:14:58","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T19:14:58","slug":"thomas-du-toit-to-leave-bath-for-former-club-next-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/thomas-du-toit-to-leave-bath-for-former-club-next-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Du Toit to leave Bath for former club next summer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">South Africa prop Thomas du Toit is to leave Bath at the end of the season, the club has confirmed.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 30-year-old joined the Premiership leaders from South African side The Sharks in 2023 and was a pivotal member of Johann van Graan&#8217;s treble-winning 2025-26 season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He has scored 21 tries in 52 appearances for the West Country outfit, and last year was nominated for Premiership player of the season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Du Toit will return to The Sharks when his contract expires next summer.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/cm2wmn99yvjo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa prop Thomas du Toit is to leave Bath at the end of the season, the club has confirmed. The 30-year-old joined the Premiership leaders from South African side The Sharks in 2023 and was a pivotal member of Johann van Graan&#8217;s treble-winning 2025-26 season. He has scored 21 tries in 52 appearances for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21171,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport-africa","category-world-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21170"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21172,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21170\/revisions\/21172"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}