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The Rwanda Rugby Federation (RRF) (http:\/\/www.RwandaRugby.com), has unveiled the competition calendar for the year 2020.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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In a meeting organized on Sunday at Remera Master Grill conducted by Philip Gakirage\u00a0the RRF Vice President as well as federation members the clubs, it was decided the new schedule will include the first and second division teams, a Women 7\u2019s, Tag Rugby, and talent detention program.<\/p>\n
The top first division will kick off this month on March 21-22 is composed of the top five Rugby teams basing on last year\u2019s performance including teams like Lion de Fer, Thousand Hills, Resilience, Muhanga Thunders, and Kigali Sharks Rugby clubs.<\/p>\n
All teams in this division will battle out both in the home and away category, according to RRF before being ranked to determine the champion in August.<\/p>\n
For the first time, the bottom team in the top division will be relegated to the second division, which kicks in May before coming to a climax in June.<\/p>\n
The Second Division will be made up of the South, Central and North Leagues.\u00a0The South region will consist of two teams; the University of Rwanda team Grizzlies and Puma Rugby Club, Central will have Remera Buffaloes, Rwamagana Bananas while North West includes three teams; Rubavu rugby club, Burera tigers and IPRC Tumba.<\/p>\n
\u2018\u2019We\u2019re very committed\u00a0to strengthen our National 15 aside\u00a0League by putting in place First and second Division so as to increase competitiveness of our league which will help us to get good players joining the national team,\u2019\u2019 said Gakirage Philip\u00a0the Vice\u00a0president of Rwanda Rugby Federation.<\/p>\n
According to the rugby activity calendar 2020, RRF will host the Annual General Assembly on March 29, 2020, after\u00a0the top division kicks off on 21st -22nd\u00a0March.<\/p>\n
The ladies have also not be forgotten, their Women’s Rugby 7\u2019s competition will be played on May 24, 2020. The Seniors men’s team will part take in Safari 7’s in Kenya.<\/p>\n
In that same month, a national 7’s training will\u00a0be conducted by UK selected team; Friends of Rwanda Rwanda (FoRR) from May 25-31.<\/p>\n
RRF has also revealed that the Silverbacks,\u00a0the Seniors men’s team will part take in Safari 7’s in Kenya in September. A local Under 17 junior competitions will also take center stage in that period, while\u00a0Tag Rugby Festivals is scheduled on June 6th.<\/p>\n
The Rugby fans will also be treated to other major rugby events on the calendar namely; the Annual Genocide Memorial 7\u2019s which attracts teams from neighboring countries.<\/p>\n
The Coaches and referees will also gain from the second refreshment training workshop to be held October then in that same month a women talent detention program will kick-off plus the Under 15 talent detention a month later.<\/p>\n
This year\u2019s busy rugby calendar will be concluded with the Beach Rugby tournament to be held in December Rubavu.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile the Rugby National League will kick of with\u00a0a competitive fixture on 21st March 2020. Resilience from Rusizi will host Thousand Hills and Lions de Fer will host Muhanga thunders on Sunday 22nd<\/sup> March, 2020 in Kigali.<\/p>\n Distributed by APO Group on behalf of Rwanda Rugby Federation (RRF).<\/i><\/p>\n Media Contact:<\/strong> About Rwanda Rugby:<\/strong> Source<\/a> The Rwanda Rugby Federation (RRF) (http:\/\/www.RwandaRugby.com), has unveiled the competition calendar for the year 2020. Download Document:\u00a0http:\/\/bit.ly\/39sOfLd In a meeting organized on Sunday at Remera Master Grill conducted by Philip Gakirage\u00a0the RRF Vice President as well as federation members the clubs, it was decided the new schedule will include the first and second division teams, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2461],"tags":[258,256,2462,17824,7819,6687,257,8495,4702,254,6777],"class_list":["post-45194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-botswana-news","tag-calendar","tag-federation","tag-national","tag-news","tag-rugby","tag-rwanda","tag-south-africa-today","tag-unveils"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45194\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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