2014 Oceania Sevens Championship | |
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Date | 3–4 October 2014 |
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The 2014 Oceania Sevens Championship was the seventh Oceania Sevens in men's rugby sevens. It was held in Noosa, Australia. [1]
The Oceania Sevens is an international rugby sevens competition organised by Oceania Rugby. It has been held regularly since 2008 to select the best men's national team in Oceania.
Fiji won the Oceania Sevens Championship by defeating New Zealand 21-5. [2] The two best-placed non-core Sevens World Series teams qualified through to the 2015 Wellington Sevens (Papua New Guinea) and the 2015 Hong Kong Sevens (Tonga).
The Fiji national rugby sevens team is one of the most successful rugby sevens teams in the world. Fiji has won the Hong Kong Sevens a record eighteen times since the tournament's inception in 1976. Fiji has also won the Rugby World Cup Sevens twice — in 1997 and 2005. Fiji also won the gold medal at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Brazil, the country's first Olympic medal in any event.
The New Zealand national rugby sevens team competes in the World Rugby Sevens Series, Rugby World Cup Sevens, Summer Olympic Games and the Commonwealth Games. The team has been officially known as the All Blacks Sevens since 1 June 2012.
The 2015 Wellington Sevens is the 16th edition of the tournament as part of the 2014–15 Sevens World Series. It is hosted in Wellington, New Zealand, at the Westpac Stadium.
Key to colours in group tables | |
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Teams that advanced to the Cup Quarterfinal |
Team | Pld | W | D | L | PF | PA | PD | Pts |
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![]() | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 125 | 12 | 113 | 9 |
![]() | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 32 | 42 | –10 | 6 |
![]() | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 45 | 65 | –20 | 6 |
![]() | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 22 | 105 | –83 | 3 |
Team | Pld | W | D | L | PF | PA | PD | Pts |
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![]() | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 134 | 0 | +134 | 9 |
![]() | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 47 | 44 | +3 | 7 |
![]() | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 31 | 64 | –33 | 5 |
![]() | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 12 | 116 | –104 | 3 |
Team | Pld | W | D | L | PF | PA | PD | Pts |
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![]() | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 87 | 19 | +68 | 9 |
![]() | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 81 | 40 | +41 | 7 |
![]() | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 31 | 62 | -31 | 5 |
![]() | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 26 | 104 | -78 | 3 |
9th–12th semi-finals | 9th–10th play-off | |||||
4 October 2014 – Dolphin Oval, Noosa | ||||||
![]() | 14 | |||||
4 October 2014 – Dolphin Oval, Noosa | ||||||
![]() | 12 | |||||
![]() | 19 | |||||
4 October 2014 – Dolphin Oval, Noosa | ||||||
![]() | 14 | |||||
![]() | 10 | |||||
![]() | 38 | |||||
11th–12th play-off | ||||||
4 October 2014 – Dolphin Oval, Noosa | ||||||
![]() | 10 | |||||
![]() | 31 |
5th–8th semi-finals | 5th–6th play-off | |||||
4 October 2014 – Dolphin Oval, Noosa | ||||||
![]() | 29 | |||||
4 October 2014 – Dolphin Oval, Noosa | ||||||
![]() | 5 | |||||
![]() | 17 | |||||
4 October 2014 – Dolphin Oval, Noosa | ||||||
![]() | 26 | |||||
![]() | 10 | |||||
![]() | 27 | |||||
7th–8th play-off | ||||||
4 October 2014 – Dolphin Oval, Noosa | ||||||
![]() | 36 | |||||
![]() | 19 |
Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Final | ||||||||
4 October 2014 – Dolphin Oval, Noosa | ||||||||||
![]() | 49 | |||||||||
4 October 2014 – Dolphin Oval, Noosa | ||||||||||
![]() | 7 | |||||||||
![]() | 24 | |||||||||
4 October 2014 – Dolphin Oval, Noosa | ||||||||||
![]() | 12 | |||||||||
![]() | 31 | |||||||||
4 October 2014 – Dolphin Oval, Noosa | ||||||||||
![]() | 7 | |||||||||
![]() | 21 | |||||||||
4 October 2014 – Dolphin Oval, Noosa | ||||||||||
![]() | 5 | |||||||||
![]() | 59 | |||||||||
4 October 2014 – Dolphin Oval, Noosa | ||||||||||
![]() | 0 | |||||||||
![]() | 14 | |||||||||
4 October 2014 – Dolphin Oval, Noosa | ||||||||||
![]() | 19 | Third place | ||||||||
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4 October 2014 – Dolphin Oval, Noosa | ||||||||||
![]() | 54 | |||||||||
![]() | 33 | |||||||||
![]() | 7 | |||||||||
Legend |
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A core team in the 2014–15 Sevens World Series |
Qualified to play in 2015 Wellington Sevens and 2015 Hong Kong Sevens |
Qualified to play in 2015 Hong Kong Sevens |
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