Shujaa to face Tonga in World Cup opener

The national rugby sevens team will face Tonga in the Rugby World Cup sevens opener at the Cape Town Stadium, South Africa on the 9th of September this year.

If head coach Damien McGrath’s men win the clash they will battle it out with Argentina in the round of 16 at the same stadium that same day.

Kenya has reached the World Rugby Sevens semi-finals twice, first in 2009 in Dubai under the late Benjamin Ayimba and second in 2013 in Moscow under Mike Friday.

South Africa won the staging rights for the World Cup in 2019 and will become the first African nation to stage the tournament.

The South Africans are a sevens world series powerhouse but have appeared in the World Cup Sevens final only once, in 1997.