Africa Men's Sevens

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Africa Men's Sevens
Africa Men's Sevens logo 2018.png
SportRugby sevens
No. of teams12
ContinentAfrica
Most recent
champion(s)		Kenya (2019)
Logo in 2013.

The Africa Men's Sevens, formerly the Africa Cup Sevens, is an annual rugby sevens tournament involving African nations, organised by Rugby Africa. Since 2013 the event has been contested on an annual basis.

The tournament is also acts as a qualifying event for the Rugby World Cup Sevens and Olympic Rugby Sevens as required.

Results by year[]

Winners and runners-up for official Rugby Africa and IRB (WR) sevens tournaments:

Year Location Winner Score Runner-up Refs
African Sevens (RWC 7s qualifiers)
Nairobi Zimbabwe  26–14  Kenya [1]
Lusaka Kenya  33–14  Namibia [2]
Tunis Kenya  26–14  Zimbabwe [3]
2012 Rabat Zimbabwe  33–10  Tunisia [4]
Africa Cup Sevens
2013 Mombasa Kenya  24–19  Zimbabwe [5]
2014 Harare South Africa  38–5  Kenya [6]
2015 Johannesburg Kenya  19–17  Zimbabwe [7]
2016 Nairobi Uganda  38–19  Namibia
2017 Kampala Uganda  10–7  Zimbabwe
Africa Men's Sevens
2018 Monastir Zimbabwe  17–5  Kenya
2019 Johannesburg Kenya  29–0  Uganda
Johannesburg

Summary of results[]

Updated to include 2019:

Team Champions Runner up
 Kenya 5 3
 Zimbabwe 3 4
 Uganda 2 1

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ RWC Qualifier: Nairobi, Kenya. 6/23/2000 - 6/24/2000. Rugby7. 2000.
  2. ^ RWC Qualifier: Lusaka, Zambia. 7/26/2004 - 7/27/2004. Rugby7. 2004.
  3. ^ Africa Qualifier: Tunis, Tunisia. 10/31/2008 - 11/1/2008. Rugby7. 2008.
  4. ^ RWC Qualifier: Rabat, Morocco. 9/29/2012 - 9/30/2012. Rugby7. 2012.
  5. ^ Shujaa win the Africa Cup Sevens. CAR. April 28, 2013.
  6. ^ SA win it, Zim qualify for Hong Kong Daily news. 1 December 2014.
  7. ^ Kenya qualify for Rio 2016 Sport 24. 15 November 2015
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