The 2018 Rugby Africa season contains a series of
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 its m ...
tournaments scheduled for 2018 and organised by the governing body of rugby union in Africa,
Rugby Africa
Rugby Africa, is the administrative body for rugby union within the continent of Africa under the authority of World Rugby, which is the world governing body of rugby union. , Rugby Africa has 37 member nations and runs several rugby tournaments ...
. The top-tier event is the Rugby Africa Gold Cup – formerly simply known as the
Africa Cup
The Rugby Africa Cup is a two-year men's rugby union tournament involving the top 16 African nations based on their World Rugby rankings, it is organised by Rugby Africa. The tournament was first held in 2000. It was renamed the Rugby Africa Cup i ...
– a six-team competition which was played on a
round-robin basis from May to August 2018.
Teams
The following teams will take part in the 2018 Rugby Africa season.
Rankings are taken from the start of each division
Gold Cup
The 2018 edition of the Rugby Africa Gold Cup will be played by the national teams of Namibia, Kenya, Uganda, Morocco, Zimbabwe and Tunisia. The competition will be played in a league format with 15 home or away matches (dependent on their 2017 league position) between the 16th of June and the 18th of August 2018. Points accumulated for the 2018 edition are as follows:
Victory: 4 points + 1 bonus point for winning by three tries or more.
Draw: 2 points
Loss: 0 point + 1 bonus point for losing by 7 points or less
This year's edition also doubles as
qualification for the 2019 Rugby World Cup. The first place team will qualify for the World Cup directly, while the 2nd place team will qualify for the Repechage competition. All others will be eliminated from World Cup contention.
Standings
Standings for the Gold Cup are:
Matches
Silver Cup
Unlike the 2017 edition, the 2018 Silver Cup will be split into two groups of 3 teams each. By beating Zambia 31-0, Algeria won the competition and will automatically join the Gold Cup alongside Zambia.
Group North
Standings
Matches
Group South
Standings
Matches
Final
Bronze Cup
The 2018 Bronze Cup was contested as a single elimination bracket with 4 teams.
Bracket
Matches
Semi-finals
3rd Place Match
Final
References
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2018 rugby union tournaments for national teams
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