African Rugby Union Championship

This article describes the Men's African Championship. For the European Women's Championship, see Rugby Union Women's African Championship

Rugby Union African Cup of Nations Rugby Africa Cup
Current season	2019-2022
Association	Rugby Africa
founding	2000
sport	Rugby union
First edition	2000
Teams	16 (from 2019)
Title holder	Namibia (2018)
Record winner	Namibia (8 wins)
Website	www.rugbyafrique.com

Rugby Africa Gold Cup trophy

The Rugby Union Africa Championship ( English Rugby Africa Cup ) is a rugby union tournament for national teams held by the African association Rugby Africa , in which the African champions are determined annually. It has been held since 2000, initially under the name CAR Top 9 and CAR Top 10 .

The record winner is the Namibian national rugby union team with eight successes. South Africa as two-time world champions shows little interest in the tournament. In five appearances with a youth team, South Africa won three times.

history

In the first tournament in 2000, only five national teams ( Morocco , Namibia, Zimbabwe , South Africa-B and Tunisia ) took part. In 2004 a tournament for junior nations and U-19 national teams was introduced, the African Development Trophy . In 2011 the best four nations were removed from the competition and competed in division A1 .

format

There have been different formats over the years.

2014 to 2018

From 2014 to 2018, the game was played in a promotion and relegation mode, with Division 1A being the top division, followed by Division 1B and Division 1C . In recent years, these have been called the Africa Gold Cup , Africa Silver Cup , Africa Bronze Cup and Regional Challenge .

Gold Cup : The five best national teams on the continent as well as the winner of the Silver Cup of the previous year. For 2018 these were Kenya , Namibia, Zimbabwe, Tunisia, Uganda and Morocco.

Silver Cup : The participants of the previous year minus the climber in the Gold Cup and the climber in the Bronze Cup . In addition, the relegated from the Gold Cup , the winner and finalist from the Bronze Cup . It is played in two regional leagues.

Bronze Cup : Four nations compete here; the two Bronze Cup participants from the previous year as well as the climber from the Regional Challenge and the climber from the Bronze Cup .

Regional Challenge : Up to 20 national teams.

Since 2019

16 teams compete in a tournament. The winner qualifies for the Rugby Union World Cup . First, the four worst teams on the continent play away against the four second worst teams in Africa. In the second round, the remaining 12 teams are divided into four groups of three teams each. These compete against each other in home and away games. The four group winners compete against each other in a final tournament at one location.

The tournaments at a glance

year	winner	Result	finalist	Final location
2000	South Africa (B team)	44:14	Morocco	Casablanca
2001	South Africa (B team)	36:20	Morocco	Casablanca
2002	Namibia	26:19 17:24	Tunisia	Windhoek Tunis
2003	Morocco	27: 07	Namibia	Casablanca
2004	Namibia	39:22	Morocco	Windhoek
2005	Morocco	43: 06	Madagascar	Paris
2006	South Africa (B team)	29: 27	Namibia	Windhoek
2007	Uganda	42: 11	Madagascar	Antananarivo
2008/09	Namibia	18:13 22:10	Tunisia	Tunis Windhoek
2010	not carried out
2011	Kenya	16: 07	Tunisia	Nairobi
2012	Zimbabwe	22:18	Uganda	Ever
2013	Kenya	29: 17	Zimbabwe	Antananarivo
2014	Namibia	R.	Zimbabwe
2015	Namibia	R.	Zimbabwe
2016	Namibia	R.	Kenya
2017	Namibia	R.	Kenya
2018	Namibia	R.	Kenya

Ranking list

rank	country	title	2nd place
1	Namibia	8th	2
2	South Africa	3	-
3	Morocco	2	3
3	Kenya	2	3
5	Zimbabwe	1	3
6th	Uganda	1	2
7th	Tunisia	-	3
8th	Madagascar	-	2

See also

• List of major rugby union competitions

Web links

• Official website of the tournament (English / French)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Rugby Africa Cup. Rugby Africa , Retrieved October 10, 2019.