2022 Africa Men's Sevens Hosts Uganda Date 23–24 April 2022 Nations 14 Final positions Champions Uganda Runners-up Zimbabwe Third Kenya Series details Matches played 30 ← 2019 2023 →
The 2022 Africa Men's Sevens are an annual African rugby sevens tournament that took place at the Kyadondo Rugby Club , Kampala between 23 and 24 April 2022; they were held in Uganda for the second time. The top three teams qualified for the 2022 Rugby World Cup Sevens in Cape Town , and the top two teams qualified to the 2022 World Rugby Sevens Challenger Series . In addition, the top two Commonwealth teams not already qualified for the 2022 Commonwealth Games via the World Rugby Sevens Series booked their places in Birmingham .
Fourteen teams participated in the tournament, including 2019 champions Kenya .
Format
Teams are seeded according to their performances in the previous championship and regional qualifiers. First-round results determine whether they advance to the Cup pools (for the top eight teams) or the Trophy pools (for the other six teams).
In the Cup competition, the top two teams in each pool advance to the semi-finals (and final / third-place match thereafter). The third-placed teams in each pool contest a fifth-place match, with all other teams (including those in the Trophy competition) given a final ranking after the pool stage since the competition was delayed by inclement weather on the morning of the second day.
Teams
The following teams participated in the tournament, seeded as follows:
Kenya Uganda Namibia Madagascar Zimbabwe Zambia Tunisia Mauritius Cameroon Burkina Faso Botswana Ghana Burundi Senegal Tournament play
All times in East Africa Time (UTC+03:00 )
Opening round
Pool A: Winners of matches 1, 4, and 5, and the losing team with the smallest losing marginPool B: Winners of matches 2, 3, 6, and 7Pool C: The losing teams with the 2nd, 5th, and 6th smallest losing marginsPool D: The losing teams with the 3rd, 4th, and 7th smallest losing marginsPool stage
Legend (Cup matches only)
Advanced to semi-finals
Advanced to fifth-place match
Pool A (Cup) Pool B (Cup) Pool C (Trophy) Pool D (Trophy)
Team
Pld
W
D
L
PF
PA
PD
Pts
Ghana
2
2
0
0
57
0
+57
6
Senegal
2
1
0
1
40
10
+30
4
Burundi
2
0
0
2
0
87
-87
2
Knockout stage (Cup only)
Semi-finals Fifth-place match Third-place match Final Final standings
Note
2018–19 / 2019–20 World Rugby Sevens Series.
See also
References
"14 nations set for 2022 Rugby Africa Men's 7s tournament" . Sport News Africa . 21 April 2022. Archived from the original on 23 April 2022. Retrieved 23 April 2022.Abdusalam, Kigozi (4 March 2022). "RUGBY: Uganda Confirmed Hosts for 2022 Africa Men's Sevens" . ChimpReports . Chimp Media Ltd. Archived from the original on 6 March 2022. Retrieved 23 April 2022.
Akorebirungi, Ernest (23 April 2022). "Tournament Format: How the Rugby Africa Men's Sevens 2022 will be played" . Kawowo Sports Archived from the original on 23 April 2022. Retrieved 24 April 2022.
^ "Round one fixtures" . Uganda Rugby Union (Twitter). Archived from the original on 23 April 2022. Retrieved 24 April 2022.
^ "Round two fixtures" . Uganda Rugby Union (Twitter). Archived from the original on 23 April 2022. Retrieved 24 April 2022.
^ "Round four fixtures" . Uganda Rugby Union (Twitter). Archived from the original on 24 April 2022. Retrieved 24 April 2022.
^ "Semi-final fixtures" . Uganda Rugby Union (Twitter). Archived from the original on 24 April 2022. Retrieved 24 April 2022.
"Final fixture" . Uganda Rugby Union (Twitter). Archived from the original on 24 April 2022. Retrieved 24 April 2022.
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