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October 09, 2007

Burkina Faso "more successful than New Zealand" at Rugby...

So as everyone has been enthusiastically following the Rugby World Cup, you may be interested to know some facts about the Burkina Faso Rugby team:

This site (which sadly seems to need updating), claims that Burkina Faso has a higher win rate than New Zealand! I should add that this is because the site only records 4 of Burkina's games, 3 of which they won, giving them a 75% win rate, placing them the 8th most successful rugby team. This puts them just above New Zealand at 9th with 74%. Burkina Faso magnificently beat Mali, Mauritania, and Togo, but sadly lost to Mauritius 108-3...

It seems that in the Confederation of African Rugby there are two levels of international rugby. Burkina Faso is a member of the, erm... second level. They play in the Castel Beer rugby cup, which has a northern league and a southern league. The winner of each league play in the final. Burkina won the northern league in 2005, then lost to Mauritius in the final (yes, that one).

Apparently Burkina have won their group this year, and were due to play Nigeria in the northern league final in August, but I can't find the results anywhere. (Help anyone?)

Tags: africa burkina burkina faso rugby rugby world cup

Posted by Keith at October 9, 2007 04:38 PM