The 2014 Africa Cup was the fourteenth edition of the

Africa Cup The Rugby Africa Cup is a two-year men's rugby union tournament involving the top 16 African nations based on their World Rugby rankings, it is organised by Rugby Africa. The tournament was first held in 2000. It was renamed the Rugby Africa Cup ...

, an annual international

rugby union Rugby union football, commonly known simply as rugby union in English-speaking countries and rugby 15/XV in non-English-speaking world, Anglophone Europe, or often just rugby, is a Contact sport#Terminology, close-contact team sport that orig ...

tournament for African nations organised by the

Confederation of African Rugby Rugby Africa is the administrative body for rugby union within the continent of Africa under the authority of World Rugby, which is the world governing body of rugby union. , Rugby Africa has 37 member nations and runs several rugby tournaments f ...

(CAR). The tournament, as well as the

2012 2012 was designated as: *International Year of Cooperatives *International Year of Sustainable Energy for All Events January *January 4 – The Cicada 3301 internet hunt begins. * January 12 – Peaceful protests begin in the R ...

and

2013 2013 was the first year since 1987 to contain four unique digits (a span of 26 years). 2013 was designated as: *International Year of Water Cooperation *International Year of Quinoa Events January * January 5 – 2013 Craig, Alask ...

editions of it, served as the qualifiers for the

2015 Rugby World Cup The IRB 2015 Rugby World Cup was the eighth Rugby World Cup, the quadrennial rugby union world championship. The tournament was hosted by England from 18 September to 31 October. Of the 20 countries competing in the World Cup in 2011, there was ...

Changes from last season

Changes from the 2013 Africa Cup: * Division 2 North was held as a

Rugby Sevens Rugby sevens (commonly known simply as sevens, and originally seven-a-side rugby) is a variant of rugby union in which teams are made up of seven players playing seven-minute halves, instead of the usual 15 players playing 40-minute halves. R ...

tournament, while Division 2 South was played as a 15-a-side tournament. * Division 3 is no longer on the programme. It was scheduled for 2013 however, due to economic and political instability, no games were played * was promoted to Division 1A * was relegated to Division 1B * was promoted to Division 1B * was relegated to Division 1C * was added to Division 1C despite not competing last year, replacing , who will instead play in Division 2 North * was scheduled to play in Division 3 Central in 2013, but was unable to. They will compete in the new Division 2 South tournament. * The following teams competed in XV last year, but will only compete in VII in 2014: , , , , ,

Division 1A

Division 1A was held between 26 June and 6 July 2014, at the

Mahamasina Municipal Stadium Kianja Barea Mahamasina is a rugby union and football (multi-purpose stadium, multi-purpose) stadium, also used for concerts and athletics, in Antananarivo, Madagascar. Usage It is used mostly for Rugby union, rugby and football (soccer), footba ...

Antananarivo Antananarivo (Malagasy language, Malagasy: ; French language, French: ''Tananarive'', ), also known by its colonial shorthand form Tana (), is the Capital city, capital and largest city of Madagascar. The administrative area of the city, known ...

Madagascar Madagascar, officially the Republic of Madagascar, is an island country that includes the island of Madagascar and numerous smaller peripheral islands. Lying off the southeastern coast of Africa, it is the world's List of islands by area, f ...

. The winner qualified for the

as Africa 1, and the runner up qualified for the

repechage Repechage ( , ; , ) is a practice in series competitions that allows participants who failed to meet qualifying standards by a small margin to continue to the next round. A well-known example is the wild card system. Types Different type ...

. The competing teams were: * * * * ''Numbers in parentheses are pre-tournament IRB rankings'' Match Schedule ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ----

Division 1B

Division 1B was held between 9 and 14 June 2014, in

Tunis, Tunisia Tunis (, ') is the capital city, capital and largest city of Tunisia. The greater metropolitan area of Tunis, often referred to as "Grand Tunis", has about 2,700,000 inhabitants. , it is the third-largest city in the Maghreb region (after Casabl ...

. The competing teams were: * * * * Semi-finals 3rd Place Playoff Final

Division 1C

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 The 2014 SARU Community Cup (known as the ''2014 Cell C Community Cup'' for sponsorship reasons) was the second season of the SARU Community Cup competition. The qualification to the tournament took place in 2013, while the competition proper w ...

champions Rustenburg Impala. The competing teams were: * * * * * * * Rustenburg Impala Match Schedule ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ----

Division 2

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

tournament), while the South tournament was conducted under 15-a-side laws.

North

The North Group tournament was held in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso on 17 and 18 May 2014. The competing teams were: * * * * * * Match Schedule

Preliminary Games

---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ----

5th Place Playoff

---- ----

Semi-finals

---- ----

3rd Place Playoff

----

Final

----

South

The South Group tournament was held in

Kigali, Rwanda Kigali () is the capital and largest city of Rwanda. It is near the nation's geographic centre in a region of rolling hills, with a series of valleys and ridges joined by steep slopes. As a primate city, Kigali is a relatively new city. It has ...

in between 3–7 June 2014. The competing teams were: * * * Only 11

Democratic Republic of the Congo The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), also known as the DR Congo, Congo-Kinshasa, or simply the Congo (the last ambiguously also referring to the neighbouring Republic of the Congo), is a country in Central Africa. By land area, it is t ...

players arrived for their match against

Burundi Burundi, officially the Republic of Burundi, is a landlocked country in East Africa. It is located in the Great Rift Valley at the junction between the African Great Lakes region and Southeast Africa, with a population of over 14 million peop ...

. A match was played, with DRC winning 20-7. However, Burundi were awarded the match on forfeit, due to DRC only having 11 eligible players available. ---- ----

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Africa Cup

2014 The year 2014 was marked by the surge of the Western African Ebola epidemic, West African Ebola epidemic, which began in 2013, becoming the List of Ebola outbreaks, most widespread outbreak of the Ebola, Ebola virus in human history, resul ...

2014 rugby union tournaments for national teams 2014 in African rugby union