2019 Africa Women's Sevens

The 2019 Africa Women's Sevens was a women's rugby sevens tournament held in Monastir, Tunisia on 12–13 October 2019.^[1]

2019 Africa Women's Sevens
Hosts	Tunisia
Date	12–13 October
Nations	10
Final positions
Champions	South Africa
Runners-up	Kenya
Third	Madagascar
← 2018 2022 →

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

•  Botswana
•  Ghana
•  Kenya
•  Madagascar
•  Mauritius
•  Morocco
•  Senegal
•  South Africa
•  Tunisia
•  Uganda
•  Zambia
•  Zimbabwe

Pool stage

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

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

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

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

Challenge Trophy

	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

	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

	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

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

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)