2015 Africa Cup
The 2015 Africa Cup will be the fifteenth edition of the Africa Cup, an annual international rugby union tournament for African nations organised by Rugby Africa.[1]
Changes from last season
Changes from the 2014 Africa Cup:
- All Division 2 tournaments will be held as 15-a-side tournaments
- Tunisia was promoted to Division 1A
- Madagascar was relegated to Division 1B
- Botswana and Mauritius were promoted to Division 1B
- Cameroon was added to Division 1C, after serving a suspension from Rugby Africa
- Morocco was added to Division 1C, despite missing the 2014 tournament.
- Congo was added to Division 2 South
- Swaziland was relegated to Division 2
- Lesotho and Malawi were added to Division 2.
Division 1A
Division 1A will be played during June and July 2015. The matches will be hosted by each of the Division 1A teams, with the top two ranked teams (Namibia and Zimbabwe hosting two matches each. The format is a single round robin, home or away format.
The competing teams are:
Place | Nation | Games | Points | Table points | |||||
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played | won | drawn | lost | for | against | difference | |||
1 | Kenya (0) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | +0 | 0 |
2 | Namibia (0) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | +0 | 0 |
3 | Tunisia (0) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | +0 | 0 |
4 | Zimbabwe (0) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | +0 | 0 |
Numbers in parentheses are pre-tournament World Rugby rankings
Match Schedule
13 June 2015 | Tunisia | – | Namibia | Tunis, Tunisia | ||
13 June 2015 | Zimbabwe | – | Kenya | Harare, Zimbabwe | ||
28 June 2015 | Kenya | – | Tunisia | Nairobi, Kenya | ||
4 July 2015 | Zimbabwe | – | Tunisia | Harare, Zimbabwe | ||
11 July 2015 | Namibia | – | Kenya | Windhoek, Namibia | ||
18 July 2015 | Namibia | – | Zimbabwe | Windhoek, Namibia | ||
Division 1B
Division 1B will be held between 3 and 11 July 2015, in Kampala, Uganda. The competing teams are:
Division 1C
Division 1C will be held between 22 and 27 June 2015, in Lusaka, Zambia. The competing teams are:
Division 2
Division 2 is split into regional based tournaments, in the north and south of Africa.
North
The North Group tournament will be held in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso between 23 and 31 May 2015. The competing teams are:
South East
The South-East Group tournament will be held in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo between 25–30 May 2015. The competing teams are:
South
The South Group tournament will be held in Swaziland between 10–15 May 2015. The competing teams are:
- Lesotho
- Malawi
- Swaziland
See also
References
- ↑ "Competitions 2015". Rugby Afrique. 16 January 2015. Retrieved 19 March 2015.
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