Rugby World Cup qualification fixtures released
Namibia will play its first match towards qualifying for the 2019 Rugby World Cup against Uganda on 16 June 2018.
The match set for the Hage Geingob Stadium in the capital is part of the 2018 Africa Gold Cup competition, which will be used as qualification for the world showpiece in Japan between 20 September and 2 November 2019.
Namibia will then play Tunisia on 23 June at the same venue.
Namibia's Welwitschias will face Morocco on 30 June in Morocco, before clashing with Zimbabwe in Harare on 4 August and Kenya here on 18 August.
These Africa Gold Cup fixtures were released by Rugby Africa on 29 November 2017.
The winner will likely find themselves in a group made up of world champions, New Zealand.
Africa and the Americas are guaranteed repechage places, with the runner-up of the African qualification and the third-placed team in the Americas, playoff loser and Asia/Oceania playoff winner competing for a place in the final, giving Africa a strong chance of having three representatives in Japan in 2019.
Repechage is a practice in series competitions that allows participants who failed to meet qualifying standards by a small margin to continue to the next round, in a similar way as wild card system works out.
The qualification process for the 2019 Rugby World Cup began during the pool stages of the 2015 tournament in England, during which the top three teams from each of the four pools were awarded automatic qualification for the 2019 event.
The qualifying matches began on 5 March 2016.
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The match set for the Hage Geingob Stadium in the capital is part of the 2018 Africa Gold Cup competition, which will be used as qualification for the world showpiece in Japan between 20 September and 2 November 2019.
Namibia will then play Tunisia on 23 June at the same venue.
Namibia's Welwitschias will face Morocco on 30 June in Morocco, before clashing with Zimbabwe in Harare on 4 August and Kenya here on 18 August.
These Africa Gold Cup fixtures were released by Rugby Africa on 29 November 2017.
The winner will likely find themselves in a group made up of world champions, New Zealand.
Africa and the Americas are guaranteed repechage places, with the runner-up of the African qualification and the third-placed team in the Americas, playoff loser and Asia/Oceania playoff winner competing for a place in the final, giving Africa a strong chance of having three representatives in Japan in 2019.
Repechage is a practice in series competitions that allows participants who failed to meet qualifying standards by a small margin to continue to the next round, in a similar way as wild card system works out.
The qualification process for the 2019 Rugby World Cup began during the pool stages of the 2015 tournament in England, during which the top three teams from each of the four pools were awarded automatic qualification for the 2019 event.
The qualifying matches began on 5 March 2016.
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