The 2014 Africa Cup was the fourteenth edition of the Africa Cup, an annual international rugby union tournament for African nations organised by the Confederation of African Rugby (CAR).[1] The tournament, as well as the 2012 and 2013 editions of it, served as the qualifiers for the 2015 Rugby World Cup.
Changes from the 2013 Africa Cup:
Division 1A was held between 26 June and 6 July 2014, at the Mahamasina Municipal Stadium in Antananarivo, Madagascar. The winner qualified for the 2015 Rugby World Cup as Africa 1, and the runner up qualified for the repechage. The competing teams were:
| Place | Nation | Games | Points | Table points | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| played | won | drawn | lost | for | against | difference | ||||
| 1 | (22) | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 135 | 59 | +76 | 10 | |
| 2 | (30) | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 105 | 56 | +49 | 10 | |
| 3 | (33) | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 73 | 50 | +23 | 10 | |
| 4 | (35) | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 32 | 180 | –148 | 0 |
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Division 1B was held between 9 and 14 June 2014, in Tunis, Tunisia. The competing teams were:
Semi-finals
3rd Place Playoff
Final
Division 1C was held between 14 and 21 June 2014, in Gaborone, Botswana.
were initially supposed to play in Division 1C, but withdrew; they were replaced by South African club side, the 2014 SARU Community Cup champions Rustenburg Impala.[3]
The competing teams were:
Rustenburg Impala| Place | Nation | Games | Points | Table points | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| played | won | drawn | lost | for | against | difference | ||||
| 1 | Rustenburg Impala | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 201 | 36 | +165 | 15 | |
| 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 218 | 78 | +140 | 10 | ||
| 3 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 161 | 68 | +93 | 10 | ||
| 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 91 | 126 | −35 | 5 | ||
| 5 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 61 | 153 | −92 | 5 | ||
| 6 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 10 | 281 | −271 | 0 |
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Like in 2013, Division 2 is divided into North and South Groups. The North tournament was conducted under 7-a-side laws (similar to the 2012 tournament), while the South tournament was conducted under 15-a-side laws.
The North Group tournament was held in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso on 17 and 18 May 2014. The competing teams were:
| Place | Nation[5] | Games | Points | Table points | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| played | won | drawn | lost | for | against | difference | ||||
| 1 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 67 | 57 | +10 | 13 | ||
| 2 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 90 | 31 | +59 | 13 | ||
| 3 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 100 | 37 | +63 | 12 | ||
| 4 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 57 | 55 | +2 | 9 | ||
| 5 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 50 | 51 | -1 | 8 | ||
| 6 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 12 | 145 | -133 | 5 |
Match Schedule
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The South Group tournament was held in Kigali, Rwanda in between 3–7 June 2014. The competing teams were:
| Place | Nation | Games | Points | Bonus points | Table points | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| played | won | drawn | lost | for | against | difference | |||||
| 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 20 | 15 | +5 | 1 | 5 | ||
| 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 5 | +4 | 0 | 4 | ||
| 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 15 | -9 | 0 | 4 |
Only 11 Democratic Republic of the Congo players arrived for their match against Burundi. A match was played, with DRC winning 20-7.[6] However, Burundi were awarded the match on forfeit, due to DRC only having 11 eligible players available.[7] --------