2018 Rugby Africa season explained

18th Africa Cup
Champion:Namibia
Runnerup:Kenya
Preceded By:2017
Succeeded By:2019

The 2018 Rugby Africa season contains a series of rugby union tournaments scheduled for 2018 and organised by the governing body of rugby union in Africa, Rugby Africa. The top-tier event is the Rugby Africa Gold Cup – formerly simply known as the Africa Cup – 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[1]

Gold CupSilver CupBronze Cup
Team2017 positionWR RankTeam2017 positionWR RankTeam2017 positionWR Rank
2nd Gold Cup 28 1st Bronze Cup N/A 1st RC West 1 93
1st Silver Cup 38 4th Silver Cup 67 1st RC South N/A
1st Gold Cup 24 2nd Silver Cup 50 4th Bronze Cup 90
4th Gold Cup 42 3rd Silver Cup 46 3rd Bronze Cup 91
3rd Gold Cup 37 6th Gold Cup 49
5th Gold Cup 44 2nd Bronze Cup 78

Gold Cup

2018 Rugby Africa Gold Cup
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Date:16 June – 18 August 2018
Prevseason:2017
Nextseason:2019

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:[2]

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:

2018 Rugby Africa Gold Cup
PosTeamPlWDLPFPAPDBPPts<--Pos Team P W D L PF PA PD BP Pts-->
1 align=left 5 5 0 0 347 69 +278 5 25
2 align=left 5 4 0 1 206 135 +71 1 17
3 align=left 5 2 0 3 160 172 -12 1 9
4 align=left 5 2 0 3 66 279 -213 3 9
5 align=left 5 1 1 3 139 162 -23 3 8
6 align=left 5 0 1 4 99 197 -98 1 3
  • Legend: Pos = Position, Pl = Played, W = Won, D = Drawn, L = Lost, PF = Points for, PA = Points against, PD = Points difference, Pts = Log points.

Matches

Silver Cup

2018 Rugby Africa Silver Cup
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Date:8 July - 25 August 2018
Prevseason:2017
Nextseason:2019

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. [3]

Group North

Standings

2018 Rugby Africa Gold Cup
PosTeamPlWDLPFPAPDBPPts<--Pos Team P W D L PF PA PD BP Pts-->
1 align=left 2 2 0 0 45 31 +14 2 10
2 align=left 2 1 0 1 38 44 -6 0 4
3 align=left 2 0 0 2 39 47 -8 2 2
  • Legend: Pos = Position, Pl = Played, W = Won, D = Drawn, L = Lost, PF = Points for, PA = Points against, PD = Points difference, Pts = Log points.

Matches

Group South

Standings

2018 Rugby Africa Gold Cup
PosTeamPlWDLPFPAPDBPPts<--Pos Team P W D L PF PA PD BP Pts-->
1 align=left 2 2 0 0 63 42 +21 1 9
2 align=left 2 1 0 1 93 49 +44 2 6
3 align=left 2 0 0 2 31 96 -65 0 0
  • Legend: Pos = Position, Pl = Played, W = Won, D = Drawn, L = Lost, PF = Points for, PA = Points against, PD = Points difference, Pts = Log points.

Matches

Final

Bronze Cup

2018 Rugby Africa Bronze Cup
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Date:9–12 May 2018
Count:1
Prevseason:2017
Nextseason:2019

The 2018 Bronze Cup was contested as a single elimination bracket with 4 teams.[4]

Matches

Semi-finals

3rd Place Match

Final

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Men's Rankings | World Rugby. 11 June 2018. 25 September 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180925040423/http://www.worldrugby.org/rankings/mru#!. dead.
  2. Web site: Gold Cup 2018. 11 June 2018. 21 August 2018. https://archive.today/20180821052514/http://www.rugbyafrique.com/gold-cup/gold-cup-2018/. dead.
  3. Web site: Silver Cup 2018. 11 June 2018. 23 October 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20181023054257/http://www.rugbyafrique.com/silver-cup/silver-cup-2018/. dead.
  4. Web site: Bronze Cup 2018.