Rugby World Cup qualification
Tournament Automatically qualified Qualified via competition Eliminated in repechage
1987 Zimbabwe - -
1991 - Zimbabwe -
1995 South Africa Ivory Coast -
1999 South Africa Namibia Morocco
2003 South Africa Namibia Tunisia
2007 South Africa Namibia Morocco
2011 South Africa Namibia Tunisia
2015 South Africa Namibia Zimbabwe
2019 South Africa Namibia Kenya
Qualification by continent -- Africa
Rugby World Cup qualification is a process that determines which nations will compete at the Rugby World Cup. Unlike previous tournaments (where eight teams, the quarter-finalists from the preceding World Cup, qualified automatically and twelve places were available through qualification) the 2011 World Cup will be contested by twelve automatic qualifiers / seeds (the teams who finished in the top three of the groups at the 2007 World Cup) and eight qualifiers. The qualification system for the remaining eight places will be region-based with Europe and the Americas allocated two qualifying places, Africa, Asia and Oceania one place each, with the last place determined by a play-off.