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South Africa hosted and won the 1995 Rugby World Cup and won the 2007 Rugby World Cup in France as well as the 2019 Rugby World Cup in Japan, and the 2023 Rugby World Cup, again in France. It followed the 1995 Rugby World Cup by hosting the 1996 African Cup of Nations, with the national team going on to win the tournament.
South Africa became the first African nation to host the World Cup in 2010. The 2014 FIFA World Cup was hosted by Brazil, the first held in South America since Argentina 1978 , [ 84 ] and was the first occasion where consecutive World Cups were held outside Europe.
The World Cup Finals is the most widely viewed sporting event in the world, with an estimated 715.1 million people watching the 2006 tournament final. [1] South Africa have appeared in the FIFA World Cup on three occasions in 1998, 2002, and as hosts in 2010.
The Poor People's World Cup was an event organised by a South African social movement in response to the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa.. The event was created by the Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign [1] who believed that the World Cup has had a negative impact [2] on poor communities in Cape Town, via evictions, relocations, and not being allowed to trade near the new football stadiums.
The 2019 Rugby World Cup saw South Africa claim one of their greatest victories by winning the title for a third time despite a loss to New Zealand in the group stages. Victory over England in the final, after dispatching Japan and a grind-out victory over Wales in the knock-out stages, saw South Africa lift the Webb Ellis Cup in Tokyo.
South Africa and New Zealand will meet on Saturday in a Rugby World Cup final for the first time since 1995.
On August 2, 2023, South Africa beat Italy 3–2 to qualify for the Round of 16. This was the first World Cup victory for the women's team, and also the first time in South Africa's history that either the women's or men's team has qualified out of the group stage.
The 2010 FIFA World Cup was the first time that the FIFA World Cup was staged in Africa, with South Africa being the hosts and thus qualifying automatically, to be a sixth African team in the draw alongside the now-regular five who made it through the qualifying process.