Five times hosts were spectacularly frozen in home Currie Cup finals

From being wedged in a Currie Cup promotion/relegation in 2013, the Griquas and the Pumas will be facing each other in Saturday's Currie Cup final.

The 2013 Currie Cup finalists, the Sharks, and Western Province, didn't even make the playoffs, speaking volumes of how the tournament can and will change shape.

The 2013 final was also notable for the away team winning the final, which feeds into the team of the home team having to have their guard up on game day.

Since the Sharks unforgettably usurped the Bulls at Loftus Versfeld in 1990 to win their first-ever Currie Cup title, the 31 other finals have seen the away team win 13 times, including the crazy 1992-1994 streak when the away side took the spoils.

Here are five memorable moments where the hosts were upstaged on what should have been their Currie Cup red-letter day:

1999: Sharks 9-32 Lions, Kings Park

It wasn't just the end of the old Millennium, but the end of an era for the Sharks as discarded Springbok captain Gary Teichmann and Andre Joubert were playing their last matches for the Sharks.

They were key ingredients of the Sharks' 1995 and 1996 Currie Cup wins, but this mix-and-match Sharks group hadn't quite got to grips with the demands of finals rugby.

Tries from Thinus Delport, Chester Williams, and Ruan Boshoff robbed the Sharks of what would have been a fifth Currie Cup title in nine years.

The pain wouldn't end there for the Sharks, as they'd slip up at home and away against Western Province in consecutive finals in the following years before being royally stuffed up by the Bulls in 2003.

They'd only win their next Currie Cup in 2008 when they beat the Bulls 14-9 at Kings Park.

2002: Lions 7-31 Blue Bulls

This was a proper coming-of-age Currie Cup win for the Bulls,