Rugby Africa Gold Cup has new logo

Zimbabwe led by their new  and former Springbok star Peter De Villers will host the Moroccan challengers while the defending champions, Namibia will face Uganda at home on June 16 as Rugby Africa Gold Cup looks forward to welcoming the African fans to the first matches of the 2018 Rugby Africa Gold Cup which are to be played in 49 days time.

By Tendai Chisiri

The winners of the tournament will take on amongst others, their big brother , South Africa, on September 28, 2019 at the Rugby World Cup to be held in Japan.

To mark the start of this countdown, Rugby Africa officially unveiled the new competition logo.

Rugby Africa’s Managing Director Coralie van den Berg said,”Promoting our events with a new branding identity is logical step forward as we evolve. We now have seven international competitions that are widely acknowledged in the sporting world”.Our objective was to create a strong visual identity to reflect the dynamism and passion of the African rugby fans. On that front, I think our initiative is a big success”.

Rugby Africa also revealed the new logos for the six other competitions it organizes as well as a brand new website accessible at ww.RugbyAfrique.com .

Designed for the use by supporters, the website will allow them to find out everything they want to know about rugby with among other things;calendar of events,rankings,statistics,videos and match analysis.

A special section on the website was developed for the press, ww.Rugby Afrique.com/press .

The Rugby Africa Gold Cup is Rugby Africa’s flagship competition.It gathers the 6 best teams of all African Rugby Unions.The 2018 edition of the Rugby Africa Gold Cup will be played by the national teams of Namibia, Kenya, Uganda, Morocco, Zimbabwe and Tunisia. The competition will be played in a league format with 16 home or away matches between the 16th of June and the 18th of August 2018.