Competitions' season is open
Competitions' season is open - What we like most in May is the opening season of Rugby Africa's competitions.From now till the end of September, African team will meet and fight for the first place of their category. This year’s specificity lies in the first round of the 2019 Rugby World Cup Qualifiers taking place in place in Casablanca in July during the Africa Cup 1C.
In May, the competitions will open with theAfrica Cup2nd division -East staging four teams : Lesotho, Democratic Republic of Congo, Burundi and Rwanda.This tournament will take place in Kigali, capital of Rwanda which already welcomed last year, the pre-qualifiers for theOlympics Games. This international competition of fifteen-a-side rugby will thus be the first one organized by the unionas well as the very first participation of Lesotho.
The teams will be onsite for a week, for two match days:
Sunday 15 : arrival of the teams
Monday 16 : training and technical meeting
Tuesday 17 :
MATCH 1 at 2 p.m RWANDA v BURUNDI
MATCH 2 at 4 p.m LESOTHO vDRC
Friday 20:
MATCH 3 at 2 p.mLOSER MATCH 1 v LOSER MATCH 2
MATCH 4 (FINAL) at 4 p.m WINNER MATCH 1 v WINNER MATCH 2
For this Africa Cup the only selection criteriais volunteering. Last year it had gatheredRwanda, Burundi and DRC; who will be the big winner of the 2016 season ?
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Rugby Africa (www.RugbyAfrique.com) is the governing body of rugby in Africa and one of the regional associations under World Rugby. It unites all African countries that play rugby union, rugby sevens, and women’s rugby. Rugby Africa organizes various competitions, including the qualifying tournaments for the Rugby World Cup and the Africa Sevens, a qualifying competition for the Olympic Games. With 39 member unions, Rugby Africa is dedicated to promoting and developing rugby across the continent. World Rugby highlighted Ghana, Nigeria and Zambia as three of the six emerging nations experiencing strong growth in rugby.
