Career
He currently plays for Saracens, having joined them in the 2009/10 season. He has previously played for the Bulls. He played in France, in Aurillac in the 2007/08 season.
Burger was brought in by Brendan Venter as a replacement for Wikus van der Heerden, who returned to South Africa.
He is captain of the Namibia national rugby union team and made his international debut against Zambia in 2004. He participated with the squad at the 2007 Rugby World Cup and 2011 Rugby World Cup.
At the 2011 Rugby World Cup, the Institutional Review Board"s Rugby News Service listed Jacques Burger as one of the top 5 players of the tournament. Rugby News Service stated that Burger was "consistently the shining light in his side" and that "even as opposition scores mounted, the 28-year-old continued to tirelessly throw himself into the tackle and threaten turnover ball in the rucks."
Following a concussion versus Georgia in the 2015 Rugby World Cup Burger announced his retirement from international rugby.