2019 Africa Women's Sevens

2019 Africa Women's Sevens
2019 Africa Women's Sevens
Hosts	Tunisia
Date	12–13 October
Nations	10
Final positions
Champions	South Africa
Runners-up	Kenya
Third	Madagascar
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The 2019 Africa Women's Sevens was a women's rugby sevens tournament held in Monastir, Tunisia on 12–13 October 2019.^[1]

The tournament acted as qualification for the 2020 Hong Kong Women's Sevens, which in turns serves as a qualification tournament for the World Rugby Women's Sevens Series.

The tournament also acted as qualification for the 2020 Summer Olympics.

South Africa won the tournament and qualified for the Hong Kong Sevens along with Kenya. South Africa declined Olympics qualification so Kenya earned the automatic qualifying spot.^[2]

Teams edit

Pool stage edit

The top two teams in each pool as well as the two best 3rd ranked teams qualify for the cup quarterfinals.^[3]

Legend
Advance to Cup quarterfinals
Advance to Challenge Trophy semifinals

Pool A edit

Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts
Kenya	3	3	0	123	0	+123	9
Senegal	3	2	1	36	56	−20	7
Ghana	3	1	2	22	63	−41	5
Botswana	3	0	3	20	82	−62	3

12 Oct 2019	Senegal	19–10	Botswana	Jemmal, Tunisia
10:28

12 Oct 2019	Kenya	36–0	Ghana	Jemmal, Tunisia
10:50

12 Oct 2019	Senegal	17–10	Ghana	Jemmal, Tunisia
13:04

12 Oct 2019	Kenya	51–0	Botswana	Jemmal, Tunisia
13:26

12 Oct 2019	Botswana	10–12	Ghana	Jemmal, Tunisia
15:38

12 Oct 2019	Kenya	36–0	Senegal	Jemmal, Tunisia
16:00

Pool B edit

Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts
South Africa	3	3	0	99	0	+99	9
Uganda	3	2	1	25	47	−22	7
Zimbabwe	3	1	2	17	48	−31	5
Zambia	3	0	3	17	63	−46	3

12 Oct 2019	Zimbabwe	12–7	Zambia	Jemmal, Tunisia
9:44

12 Oct 2019	Uganda	0–32	South Africa	Jemmal, Tunisia
10:06

12 Oct 2019	Zimbabwe	0–31	South Africa	Jemmal, Tunisia
12:20

12 Oct 2019	Uganda	15–10	Zambia	Jemmal, Tunisia
12:42

12 Oct 2019	Zambia	0–36	South Africa	Jemmal, Tunisia
14:54

12 Oct 2019	Uganda	10–5	Zimbabwe	Jemmal, Tunisia
15:16

Pool C edit

Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts
Madagascar	3	3	0	89	7	+82	9
Tunisia	3	2	1	76	14	+62	7
Morocco	3	1	2	41	65	−24	5
Mauritius	3	0	3	0	120	−120	3

12 Oct 2019	Madagascar	34–0	Morocco	Jemmal, Tunisia
9:00

12 Oct 2019	Tunisia	38–0	Mauritius	Jemmal, Tunisia
9:22

12 Oct 2019	Madagascar	41–0	Mauritius	Jemmal, Tunisia
11:36

12 Oct 2019	Tunisia	31–0	Morocco	Jemmal, Tunisia
11:58

12 Oct 2019	Morocco	41–0	Mauritius	Jemmal, Tunisia
14:10

12 Oct 2019	Tunisia	7–14	Madagascar	Jemmal, Tunisia
14:32

Knockout stage edit

Challenge Trophy edit

Semi-finals		Final

13 Oct 2019 – 10:58 – Jemmal, Tunisia

Ghana	29
		13 Oct 2019 – 14:26 – Jemmal, Tunisia
Mauritius	10
		Ghana	21
13 Oct 2019 – 11:20 – Jemmal, Tunisia
		Zambia	14
Zambia	24

Botswana	5
		Eleventh Place

		13 Oct 2019 – 14:04 – Jemmal, Tunisia

		Mauritius	17

		Botswana	22

5th place edit

Semi-finals		Final

13 Oct 2019 – 12:36 – Jemmal, Tunisia

Morocco	12
		13 Oct 2019 – 15:42 – Jemmal, Tunisia
Senegal	17
		Senegal	5
13 Oct 2019 – 12:58 – Jemmal, Tunisia
		Uganda	12
Uganda	7

Zimbabwe	0
		Seventh Place

		13 Oct 2019 – 15:20 – Jemmal, Tunisia

		Morocco	22

		Zimbabwe	12

Cup edit

Quarter-finals		Semi-finals		Final

13 Oct 2019 – 9:30 – Jemmal, Tunisia

South Africa	42
		13 Oct 2019 – 13:20 – Jemmal, Tunisia
Morocco	0
		South Africa	29
13 Oct 2019 – 9:52 – Jemmal, Tunisia
		Madagascar	0
Madagascar	24
				13 Oct 2019 – 16:30 – Jemmal, Tunisia
Senegal	5
				South Africa	15
13 Oct 2019 – 10:14 – Jemmal, Tunisia
				Kenya	14
Uganda	0
		13 Oct 2019 – 13:42 – Jemmal, Tunisia
Tunisia	33
		Tunisia	0
13 Oct 2019 – 10:36 – Jemmal, Tunisia
		Kenya	19	Third place
Kenya	36
				13 Oct 2019 – 16:04 – Jemmal, Tunisia
Zimbabwe	5
				Madagascar	5

				Tunisia	0

Final standings edit

Legend
Qualified for the 2020 Summer Olympics.
Qualified for the Final Qualification Tournament.

Rank	Team
	South Africa
	Kenya
	Madagascar
4	Tunisia
5	Uganda
6	Senegal
7	Morocco
8	Zimbabwe
9	Ghana
10	Zambia
11	Botswana
12	Mauritius

References edit

^ "2019 Rugby Africa Women's Seven Kicks Off its First Day on a High Note". October 13, 2019. Archived from the original on June 28, 2021. Retrieved October 7, 2021.
^ "Kenya qualify for Tokyo 2020 despite Rugby Africa Women's Sevens final defeat". www.insidethegames.biz. October 13, 2019. Archived from the original on October 13, 2019. Retrieved October 14, 2019.
^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 2019-10-14. Retrieved 2019-10-14.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

[1] "2019 Rugby Africa Women's Seven Kicks Off its First Day on a High Note". October 13, 2019. Archived from the original on June 28, 2021. Retrieved October 7, 2021.

[2] "Kenya qualify for Tokyo 2020 despite Rugby Africa Women's Sevens final defeat". www.insidethegames.biz. October 13, 2019. Archived from the original on October 13, 2019. Retrieved October 14, 2019.

[3] "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 2019-10-14. Retrieved 2019-10-14.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

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