Australian Women's Sevens

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Australian Women's Sevens
Recent tournament
Rugby football current event.svg 2024 Australia Sevens
SportRugby sevens
Inaugural season2017
Number of teams12
HoldersIRFU flag.svg  Ireland (2024)
Most titlesFlag of New Zealand.svg  New Zealand (3)

The Australian Women's Sevens, currently hosted in Perth, is an annual rugby sevens tournament and one of the stops on the World Rugby Women's Sevens Series. Australia joined the women's circuit in 2017 for the fifth edition of the series.

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Originally hosted at the Sydney Football Stadium [1] prior to its demolition and rebuilding, both the men's and women's events for the Sydney Sevens tournament were moved to the Sydney Showground Stadium in 2019, [2] and then to Western Sydney Stadium for 2020. [3] Since 2024 the tournament has been played in Perth at Perth Rectangular Stadium.

History

Champions

Year Venue Cup finalPlacingsRefs
WinnerScoreRunner-upThirdFourthFifth
2017 Sydney Football Stadium Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg
Canada
21–17Flag of the United States.svg
United States
Flag of New Zealand.svg
New Zealand
Flag of Australia (converted).svg
Australia
Flag of Fiji.svg
Fiji
[4]
2018 Sydney Football StadiumFlag of Australia (converted).svg
Australia
31–0Flag of New Zealand.svg
New Zealand
Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg
Canada
Flag of Russia.svg
Russia
Flag of France.svg
France
2019 Sydney Showground Flag of New Zealand.svg
New Zealand
34–10Flag of Australia (converted).svg
Australia
Flag of the United States.svg
United States
IRFU flag.svg
Ireland
Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg
Canada
2020 Western Sydney Stadium Flag of New Zealand.svg
New Zealand
35–0Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg
Canada
Flag of Australia (converted).svg
Australia
Flag of France.svg
France
Flag of Fiji.svg
Fiji
World Series tournaments planned for Sydney were cancelled in 2021 [5] and 2022, [6] due to COVID-19.
2023 Sydney Football Stadium Flag of New Zealand.svg
New Zealand
33–7Flag of France.svg
France
Flag of the United States.svg
United States
IRFU flag.svg
Ireland
Flag of Australia (converted).svg
Australia
2024 Perth Rectangular Stadium IRFU flag.svg
Ireland
19–14Flag of Australia (converted).svg
Australia
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg
Great Britain
Flag of the United States.svg
United States
Flag of New Zealand.svg
New Zealand

See also

References

  1. "Australia's Olympic champion women to join Sydney Sevens event in 2017". The Guardian. 26 August 2016. Archived from the original on 29 August 2016. Retrieved 30 August 2016.
  2. "Sydney 7s has a new home in 2019" (Press release). Rugby Australia. 25 May 2018. Retrieved 6 August 2018.
  3. "HSBC Sydney 7s heads to Bankwest Stadium". Rugby Australia. 3 June 2019. Archived from the original on 4 June 2019.
  4. "Canada beats United States in Sydney Sevens women's final". Fox Sports. Retrieved 7 March 2017.
  5. "2021 Hamilton, Sydney Sevens cancelled due to COVID-19". ESPN. 4 September 2021. Archived from the original on 4 September 2021.
  6. Ekin, Kim (3 September 2021). "Four stages of World Rugby Sevens Series cancelled in space of an hour". Rugby Pass. Archived from the original on 3 September 2021.