# 2017 Africa Cup Sevens

The 2017 Africa Cup Sevens is a rugby sevens tournament held in Kampala, Uganda on 6–7 October 2017. It will be the 5th championship in a series that began in 2013.
The 2017 tournament serves as a qualifier for the following:
* The 2018 Hong Kong Sevens qualifier tournament, where two teams compete for a chance to be a core team of the 2018–19 World Rugby Sevens Series
* The 2018 Rugby World Cup Sevens, also involving the top two
* The 2018 Commonwealth Games, with the top two Commonwealth of Nations members eligible.

## Teams

* Botswana
* Ghana
* Madagascar
* Mauritius
* Morocco
* Senegal
* Tunisia
* Uganda
* Zambia
* Zimbabwe
* Notes:
* ↑ Ghana makes its tournament debut after being a full World Rugby member in May 2017
* ↑ Namibia was originally scheduled to attend, but with Namibia Rugby Union citing financial reasons for pulling the team for the tournament, Mauritius was invited in its place

## Pool stage

All matches are East Africa Time (UTC+3:00)
* Legend
* Advanced to cup quarterfinals

### Pool A

| Teams | Pld | W | D | L | PF | PA | +/− | Pts |
| Uganda | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 143 | 29 | +114 | 12 |
| Zambia | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 57 | 73 | −16 | 10 |
| Tunisia | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 71 | 87 | −16 | 7 |
| Morocco | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 69 | 95 | −26 | 6 |
| Ghana | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 34 | 90 | −56 | 5 |
* 6 October 2017 9:30
| Tunisia | 19−19 | Ghana |
* 6 October 2017 9:52
| Morocco | 19−24 | Zambia |
* 6 October 2017 10:58
| Uganda | 33−0 | Ghana |
* 6 October 2017 11:20
| Tunisia | 14−21 | Zambia |
* 6 October 2017 12:48
| Uganda | 35−0 | Zambia |
* 6 October 2017 13:10
| Tunisia | 19−14 | Morocco |
* 6 October 2017 15:00
| Uganda | 42−10 | Morocco |
* 6 October 2017 15:22
| Zambia | 12−5 | Ghana |
* 6 October 2017 16:28
| Uganda | 33−19 | Tunisia |
* 6 October 2017 16:50
| Morocco | 26−10 | Ghana |

### Pool B

| Teams | Pld | W | D | L | PF | PA | +/− | Pts |
| Madagascar | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 109 | 29 | +80 | 12 |
| Zimbabwe | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 71 | 38 | +33 | 10 |
| Senegal | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 53 | 62 | −9 | 8 |
| Botswana | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 40 | 83 | −43 | 5 |
| Mauritius | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 38 | 99 | −61 | 5 |
* 6 October 2017 10:14
| Zimbabwe | 21−7 | Mauritius |
* 6 October 2017 10:36
| Senegal | 24−12 | Botswana |
* 6 October 2017 12:04
| Madagascar | 40−10 | Mauritius |
* 6 October 2017 12:26
| Zimbabwe | 21−7 | Botswana |
* 6 October 2017 13:54
| Madagascar | 24-7 | Botswana |
* 6 October 2017 14:16
| Zimbabwe | 17−5 | Senegal |
* 6 October 2017 15:44
| Madagascar | 26−0 | Senegal |
* 6 October 2017 16:06
| Botswana | 14−14 | Mauritius |
* 6 October 2017 17:12
| Madagascar | 19−12 | Zimbabwe |
* 6 October 2017 17:34
| Senegal | 24−7 | Mauritius |

## Knockout stage
### 9th Place

* 6 October 2017 12:28
| Ghana | 7−12 | Mauritius |
* 6 October 2017 14:48
| Ghana | 26−0 | Mauritius |

### Cup

| Quarter-finals | Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Semi-finals | | Final | Final |
| 7 October 2017 - 11:00 | 7 October 2017 - 11:00 | | | |
| Uganda | 33 | | | |
| Uganda | 33 | 7 October 2017 - 14:04 | 7 October 2017 - 14:04 | | |
| Botswana | 0 | 7 October 2017 - 14:04 | 7 October 2017 - 14:04 | |
| Botswana | 0 | Uganda | 38 | |
| 7 October 2017 - 12:06 | 7 October 2017 - 12:06 | | Uganda | 38 | |
| 7 October 2017 - 12:06 | 7 October 2017 - 12:06 | Zambia | 12 | |
| Zambia | 33 | Zambia | 12 | |
| Zambia | 33 | | | | 7 October 2017 - 16:46 | 7 October 2017 - 16:46 |
| Senegal | 21 | | | | 7 October 2017 - 16:46 | 7 October 2017 - 16:46 |
| Senegal | 21 | | | | Uganda | 10 |
| 7 October 2017 - 11:22 | 7 October 2017 - 11:22 | | | | | Uganda | 10 |
| 7 October 2017 - 11:22 | 7 October 2017 - 11:22 | | | | Zimbabwe | 7 |
| Madagascar | 33 | | | | Zimbabwe | 7 |
| Madagascar | 33 | 7 October 2017 - 14:26 | 7 October 2017 - 14:26 | | | |
| Morocco | 15 | 7 October 2017 - 14:26 | 7 October 2017 - 14:26 | | | |
| Morocco | 15 | Madagascar | 10 | | | |
| 7 October 2017 - 11:44 | 7 October 2017 - 11:44 | | Madagascar | 10 | | | |
| 7 October 2017 - 11:44 | 7 October 2017 - 11:44 | Zimbabwe | 21 | | Third place | Third place |
| Zimbabwe | 17 | Zimbabwe | 21 | | Third place | Third place |
| Zimbabwe | 17 | | | | 7 October 2017 - 16:24 | 7 October 2017 - 16:24 |
| Tunisia | 12 | | | | 7 October 2017 - 16:24 | 7 October 2017 - 16:24 |
| Tunisia | 12 | | | | Zambia | 7 |
| | | | | | Madagascar | 26 |

### 5th Place

| Semi-finals | Semi-finals | Fifth Place | Fifth Place |
| 7 October 2017 - 13:20 | 7 October 2017 - 13:20 |
| Botswana | 12 |
| Botswana | 12 | 7 October 2017 - 16:02 | 7 October 2017 - 16:02 |
| Senegal | 27 | 7 October 2017 - 16:02 | 7 October 2017 - 16:02 |
| Senegal | 27 | Senegal | 12 |
| 7 October 2017 - 13:42 | 7 October 2017 - 13:42 | | Senegal | 12 |
| 7 October 2017 - 13:42 | 7 October 2017 - 13:42 | Tunisia | 35 |
| Morocco | 10 | Tunisia | 35 |
| Tunisia | 14 | | |
| Tunisia | 14 | Seventh Place | Seventh Place |
| | | 7 October 2017 - 15:40 | 7 October 2017 - 15:40 |
| | | Botswana | 0 |
| | | Morocco | 10 |

## Standings

Legend :
| Green fill | Qualified to 2018 Hong Kong Sevens and 2018 Rugby World Cup Sevens |
| Blue bar | Qualified to 2018 Commonwealth Games |
| Rank | Team |
| | Uganda |
| | Zimbabwe |
| | Madagascar |
| 4 | Zambia |
| 5 | Tunisia |
| 6 | Senegal |
| 7 | Morocco |
| 8 | Botswana |
| 9 | Ghana |
| 10 | Mauritius |