The 2017 Africa Cup Sevens is a
rugby sevens tournament held in
Kampala
Kampala (, ) is the capital and largest city of Uganda. The city proper has a population of 1,680,000 and is divided into the five political divisions of Kampala Central Division, Kawempe Division, Makindye Division, Nakawa Division, and Ruba ...
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Uganda
}), is a landlocked country in East Africa. The country is bordered to the east by Kenya, to the north by South Sudan, to the west by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, to the south-west by Rwanda, and to the south by Tanzania. The sou ...
on 6–7 October 2017.
It will be the 5th championship in
a series that began in 2013.
The 2017 tournament serves as a qualifier for the following:
* The
2018 Hong Kong Sevens
The 2018 Hong Kong Sevens was the 43rd edition of the Hong Kong Sevens tournament, and the seventh tournament of the 2017–18 World Rugby Sevens Series. The performance from this tournament determined the first fourteen seedings of the 2018 Rug ...
qualifier tournament, where two teams compete for a chance to be a core team of the
2018–19 World Rugby Sevens Series
* The
2018 Rugby World Cup Sevens, also involving the top two
* The
2018 Commonwealth Games, with the top two
Commonwealth of Nations
The Commonwealth of Nations, simply referred to as the Commonwealth, is a political association of 56 member states, the vast majority of which are former territories of the British Empire. The chief institutions of the organisation are the ...
members eligible.
Teams
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Pool stage
All matches are
East Africa Time
East Africa Time, or EAT, is a time zone used in eastern Africa. The time zone is three hours ahead of UTC ( UTC+03:00), which is the same as Moscow Time, Arabia Standard Time, Further-eastern European Time and Eastern European Summer Time.
A ...
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UTC+3:00)
Pool A
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Pool B
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Knockout stage
9th Place
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Cup
5th Place
Standings
See also
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2018 Rugby World Cup Sevens qualifying – Men
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Rugby sevens at the 2018 Commonwealth Games
Rugby sevens at the 2018 Commonwealth Games was held on the Gold Coast, Australia from April 13 to 15. The rugby sevens competition was held at Robina Stadium. This is the sixth time that the men's competition was held, following rugby s ...
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2017 Women's Africa Cup Sevens
The 2017 Women's Africa Cup Sevens was a women's rugby sevens tournament held in Monastir, Tunisia on 16–17 September 2017. This tournament serves as a qualifier for two tournaments:
* 2018 Rugby World Cup Sevens, with the winner representing A ...
References
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2017 rugby sevens competitions
2017 in African rugby union
rugby union
Rugby union, commonly known simply as rugby, is a close-contact team sport that originated at Rugby School in the first half of the 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand. In it ...
International rugby union competitions hosted by Uganda