Rugby Africa

The Confederation of African Rugby (French: Confédération Africaine de Rugby) was officially launched in January 1986 in Tunis. The inaugural members at the meeting were Ivory Coast, Kenya, Madagascar, Morocco, Senegal, the Seychelles, Tanzania and Tunisia. A meeting was held in July 1992 in Casablanca with the view of integrating the SARFU into the confederation. South Africa had been denied entry until this time because of the government policy of apartheid (South African rugby union had been governed by the mainly white South African Rugby Board and the mainly black South African Rugby Union). In March 1992 these were formally combined to form the South African Rugby Football Union (SARFU). The Confederation now has 37 member nations.

World Rugby full members who are part of Rugby Africa:^[3][4]

World Rugby associate members who are part of Rugby Africa:

World Rugby non-members who are part of Rugby Africa (full or affiliate member):

World Rugby suspended members who are part of Rugby Africa:

Non-member countries working with the governing body (Rugby Africa non-members too):

Defunct African National Rugby Union Teams

Tournaments run by Rugby Africa include:^[14]

The CAR formed agreements in 2014 which allowed member unions from Anglophone and Francophone nations in Africa to access training programs within the sports academies and administrative headquarters of the South African Rugby Union and French Rugby Federation, respectively. These agreements, designed to foster rugby union development across the continent, were signed in January 2015, and followed earlier arrangements with the SARU and French club Castres Olympique which were made in 2006.^[17][18]

The African Leopards are a representative team from Africa which aims to promote the sport throughout the whole of Africa. The Leopards played their first ever match in July 2005 at Ellis Park as a curtain raiser between Springboks and Australia.

Rugby Africa nations participate in qualifying tournaments for the Rugby World Cup every four years. Four Rugby Africa nations – Ivory Coast, Namibia, South Africa and Zimbabwe – have qualified to play in Rugby World Cups.

More information Tournament, Automatically qualified ...

Tournament	Automatically qualified	Qualified via competition	Qualified via repechage	Eliminated in repechage	Eliminated at final stage	Eliminated at third stage	Eliminated at second stage	Eliminated at first stage	Eliminated at preliminary round
1987	Zimbabwe	—N/a	—N/a	—N/a	—N/a	—N/a	—N/a	—N/a	—N/a
1991	—N/a	Zimbabwe	—N/a	—N/a	Tunisia  Morocco  Ivory Coast	—N/a	—N/a	—N/a	—N/a
1995	South Africa	Ivory Coast	—N/a	—N/a	Namibia  Morocco  Zimbabwe	—N/a	—N/a	Kenya  Tunisia	—N/a
1999	South Africa	Namibia	—N/a	Morocco	Zimbabwe  Ivory Coast	Tunisia	Kenya	Zambia  Botswana	—N/a
2003	South Africa	Namibia	—N/a	Tunisia	—N/a	Morocco  Zimbabwe  Ivory Coast  Madagascar	Kenya  Cameroon	Uganda  Zambia  Botswana  Swaziland	—N/a
2007	South Africa	Namibia	—N/a	Morocco	—N/a	—N/a	Tunisia  Kenya  Ivory Coast  Uganda	Cameroon  Nigeria  Botswana  Swaziland  Zambia  Senegal  Zimbabwe  Madagascar	—N/a
2011	South Africa	Namibia	—N/a	Tunisia	—N/a	—N/a	Ivory Coast  Uganda	Senegal  Zimbabwe  Morocco  Zambia  Kenya  Cameroon  Madagascar  Botswana	Nigeria  Eswatini
2015	South Africa	Namibia	—N/a	Zimbabwe	Kenya  Madagascar	—N/a	Botswana  Senegal  Tunisia  Uganda	Ivory Coast  Mauritius  Zambia  Nigeria  Morocco	—N/a
2019	South Africa	Namibia	—N/a	Kenya	Uganda  Tunisia  Zimbabwe  Morocco	—N/a	Senegal  Botswana  Madagascar  Ivory Coast	Zambia  Nigeria  Mauritius	—N/a
2023	South Africa	Namibia	—N/a	Kenya	Burkina Faso  Ivory Coast  Uganda  Senegal  Zimbabwe  Algeria	—N/a	Madagascar  Zambia  Ghana	Cameroon  Burundi	—N/a
2027	South Africa	Zimbabwe	—N/a	Namibia	Algeria  Kenya  Senegal  Morocco  Uganda  Ivory Coast	—N/a	Tunisia  Zambia  Ghana  Nigeria  Madagascar  Botswana  Cameroon	Burkina Faso	—N/a

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