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France to host African Rugby World Cup qualifiers

20 Sep 2021

Chad Plato celebrates after scoring a try for Namibia during their RWC pool match with Italy. (Photo by Ken Ishii / Getty Images)

The African qualifiers for the 2023 Rugby World Cup will be staged as a knockout tournament in France next year.

The top eight African teams compete in the Rugby Africa Cup 2022 in France, which will serve as the last qualifying round for the 2023 World Cup.

The French are also hosts of the 2023 World Cup, which will be held in September-October.

The African knockout tournament will be in July 2022, with the winning team directly qualifying for the World Cup and set to join hosts France, New Zealand’s top-ranked All Blacks, Italy and the Americas 1 qualifier in Pool A.

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The runners-up will get a place in the final qualification tournament for the world showpiece event.

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JW 28 minutes ago

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Other players? Worse at what? Who are you disagreeing with, yourself? I agreed with you. I’m a bit lost, buy maybe thats the both of us with the amount of grammar errors I had in that post lol.

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frandinand 35 minutes ago

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Free speech is one thing. Misogynistic xenophobic and racist slurs are another. Ojohn has been guilty of all 3 in the past.

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JWH 2 hours ago

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Jon 2 hours ago

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Hey Nick, thanks for another well put together article and interesting read. I would love to see Les Kiss stay at the Reds as it does feel like they are building towards something special with a great culture and team cohesion, but not quite this season unfortunately. Would be great if that reasoning was proved wrong and they take out title. It does feel to me, that Larkham and McKellar probably know more than us about the future Wallabies Coach and having now distanced themselves from the discussions, leaves Les as the frontrunner for the gig. RA do need to make a decision soon though before more of Noah’s mates join him overseas. On a more sobering note, RA’s problems seem minor to issue now being faced at home by the WRU. Would love to read your opinion on that one at some stage.

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Well said. Will Jordan has blown his critics out of the water. He has been sublime at fullback for the Crusaders. Last week he was everywhere against the Drua in Fiji.

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We don’t need some failed Pom to teach us how to play boring rugby. We’ve got kiwis for that …..

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