Willy Amabaka in action for Kenya 7s in a past match
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The South African city of Cape Town will host the 2022 Rugby World Cup Sevens, World Rugby announced Tuesday.
This will be the first Rugby Sevens World Cup to be hosted in Africa and will take place from 9-11 September next year.
The eighth edition of the showpiece will be contested by 24 men’s and 16 women’s teams at the 57,654-capacity Cape Town Stadium.
The top-eight men’s teams and top-four women’s teams from the RWC Sevens 2018 in San Francisco, USA, have already secured automatic qualification for the tournament.
The qualified teams for the men’s event are defending champions New Zealand, England, South Africa, Fiji, Argentina, USA, France, and Scotland.