Articles
National teams, world championships and the work of building paintball and airsoft in South Africa, from the early days to today.
World championships
Two tight defeats on the live webcast field, then two clean wins on one day of preliminaries: South Africa's Men climbed five places to 9th at the 2026 UPBF World Championship.
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World championships
South Africa's Men returned to the world championship in 2025, the first since 2019, and finished 14th of 18 teams in Dreux, France.
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World championships
South Africa sent national teams in all five categories to Amsterdam in September 2019, with third places in Under 16 and Women 3-Player.
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World championships
South Africa's U19 team finished 4th in Under 19 at the 2018 world championship in Chantilly, near Paris, matching its best result from 2016.
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World championships
South Africa's Men's team won two of its three group games in Basildon, England, and reached the quarter-finals, where Russia, the eventual champions, beat it.
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World championships
On their first international outing, South Africa's three-woman team beat Russia in the final in Prague to become the first 3-player Women's World Champions of the UPBF.
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National teams
How SANPA picked its 2017 Men's and U19 national paintball teams from the provincial cups, what it cost to send them, and how they finished.
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World championships
Unbeaten in the group stage, South Africa's first U19 team lost its semi-final to Great Britain on seeding after an overtime tie, and finished 4th in Chantilly, France.
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World championships
South Africa reached the semi-finals of the 2015 Paintball World Cup in Langkawi, Malaysia, and finished 4th, up from 13th in 2013.
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Events
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Events
More than 50 teams from South Africa and Namibia played the first SARPL Super Cup in December 2013, with international guests and a trade show.
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World championships
A South African team, Team Dynamix, won Division 1 at the Naza World Cup Asia in Langkawi, Malaysia, in November 2013 and also played for South Africa in the Intercontinental Cup.
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World championships
SANPA
World championships
SANPA received an official invitation to send a South African team to the first Paintball World Cup in Chantilly, France, in September 2013. The team finished 13th.
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Association
SANPA
Association
In 2013 SANPA invited importers, shops, fields, clubs, leagues and media to provincial meetings in five provinces to shape the future growth of paintball.
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Association
SANPA
Association
SANPA was launched on 15 July 2012 at Paintball City, at the annual general meeting of the South African Regional Paintball League, in front of 48 members and players.
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Association
SANPA
Association
What SANPA set out to do when it started in 2012: grow paintball and airsoft in South Africa, keep them safe, and build a national record of players, clubs and venues.
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These articles were first published on the SANPA website between 2012 and 2019. They have been checked against our records and the United Paintball Federation’s results. RSS feed.
