South Africa to host Sevens World Cup in 2022
The Cape Town Stadium in Green Point will host the eighth edition of the Rugby World Cup Sevens in September 2022.
Cape Town has been named as the host city for the 2022 Rugby World Cup Sevens.
The announcement was made in Tokyo on Tuesday, 29 October 2019, after the World Rugby Council awarded the hosting rights for the premier tournament to South Africa at its interim meeting.
In September 2022, it will be the first time the Rugby World Cup Sevens is to be hosted on the African continent.
SA Rugby CEO, Jurie Roux, says they are delighted that the premier competition will be held in Cape Town.
“We have been eager to host global rugby tournaments for a number of years and to have the flagship event in the growing sport of sevens come to South Africa is exciting”.
“We saw how the sport engaged the audience in San Francisco last year and we are certain that it will be just as big a success in Cape Town,” he explained. “The Cape Town Sevens has established itself as a rugby bucket-list tournament in the past few years and we’re sure that international visitors to the event will experience a great tournament at an ideal rugby venue in a fantastic city.”
World Rugby chairman Sir Bill Beaumont congratulated South Africa on being elected as the Rugby World Cup Sevens 2022 hosts.
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