Oceania Rugby Women's Sevens Championship

Oceania Rugby Women's Sevens Championship

Current season, competition or edition: 2024 Oceania Women's Sevens Championship
Sport	Rugby sevens
Founded	2007;18 years ago (2007)
Countries	9 (in 2024)
Most recent champion(s)	Fiji (2024)
Most titles	Australia (6 titles)

The Oceania Rugby Women's Sevens Championship is the regional championship for women's international rugby sevens in Oceania. The tournament is held over two days, typically on a weekend. It is sanctioned and sponsored by Oceania Rugby, which is the rugby union governing body for the region.

The first official regional 7s championship for international women's teams from Oceania was the Pacific tournament held in Port Moresby in 2007. This was followed by the Oceania Championship in 2008.

The Oceania Rugby Women's Sevens serves as a qualification tournament for the following: ^[1]

• World Rugby Sevens Challenger Series
• Rugby World Cup Sevens
• Olympic Games
• Commonwealth Games

Tournaments Summary

Results by year

Year	Venue	Winner	Runner-up	Refs
Pacific 7s
2007	Port Moresby	Fiji	Samoa	[2]
Oceania 7s
2008	Apia	Australia	New Zealand	[3]
2012	Lautoka	New Zealand	Australia	[4]
2013	Noosa	Australia	Fiji	[5]
2014	Noosa	New Zealand	Australia	[6]
2015	Auckland	Fiji	Samoa	[7]
2016	Suva	Australia	Fiji	[8]
2017	Suva	New Zealand	Australia	[9]
2018	Suva	Australia	New Zealand	[10]
2019	Suva	Australia	Fiji	[11]
2020	No tournament			[12]
2021	Townsville	New Zealand	Australia
2022	Pukekohe	New Zealand	Australia
2023	Brisbane	Australia	Fiji
2024	Honiara	Fiji	Samoa

Participating teams results

Teams competing in the Oceania Women's Sevens and their finishing positions are as follows:

Team	07	08	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	21	22	23	24
Oceania teams
American Samoa	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	8	7
Australia	–	1	2	1	2	–	1	2	1	1	2	2	1	–
Cook Islands	–	–	7	–	6	3	4	5*	6	9	–	–	7	5
Fiji	1	3	3	2	3	1	2	3	3	2	3	3	2	1
Kiribati	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	9
Nauru	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	8	12	–	–	10	–
New Caledonia	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	7	–	–	–	–	–
New Zealand	–	2	1	3	1	–	–	1	2	3	1	1 †	3	–
Niue	4	5	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	6
Papua New Guinea	3	–	4	5	5	4	3	4	4	4	–	–	4	–
Samoa	2	4	5	4	4	2	5	5*	5	5	–	–	5	2
Solomon Islands	–	–	8	–	–	–	7	–	–	6	–	–	9	4
Tahiti	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	7*	–	–	–	–	–	–
Tonga	–	–	6	–	7	5	6	7*	–	11	–	–	6	3
Vanuatu	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	10	–	–	–	8
Invited teams
Canada	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	7	–	–	–	–
Japan	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	8	–	–	–	–
Oceania Barbarians	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	4	–	–	–
Number of teams	4	5	8	5	7	5	7	8	8	12	4	4	10	9

Notes:

• Host nations are highlighted in red.
• (*) Asterisk indicates a shared placing.
• (†) New Zealand fielded two teams, Black Ferns Ma, and Black Ferns Pango who finished in first and fourth place respectively.

Asia Pacific Women’s Sevens Championship

Year	Host	Winner
2010	Malaysia	Kazakhstan
2011	Malaysia	Papua New Guinea
2012	Malaysia	Australia
2013	China	China
2015	Malaysia	Japan

See also

• Oceania Rugby Men's Sevens Championship

References

1. "Women's Sevens Championship". oceania.rugby. Retrieved 2021-11-28.
2. "Fijiana take Pacific women's Sevens". IRB. 2007. Archived from the original on 4 April 2008. Retrieved 2 January 2016.
3. "Oceania Sevens women's final". Oceania Rugby. 2008. Archived from the original on 27 February 2015.
4. "New Zealand claim Oceania Women's Sevens Championship". Oceania Rugby. 2012. Archived from the original on 9 December 2013.
5. "Women's Sevens Statistics - Day 2" (PDF). Oceania Rugby. 2013. Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 October 2013.
6. "Fiji and New Zealand win the Oceania Sevens". IRB. 2014. Archived from the original on October 6, 2014.
7. "Australia and Fijiana Win Places at 2016 Olympic Games Sevens". Oceania Rugby. 2015. Archived from the original on 15 November 2015.
8. "Australian women win Oceania rugby sevens". Special Broadcasting Service. 12 November 2016. Archived from the original on 9 March 2017.
9. "Sevens Action to Return to Fiji in 2017". Oceania Rugby. 19 September 2017. Retrieved 20 September 2017.
10. "Australia and Fiji triumph at Oceania Rugby Sevens". World Rugby. 10 November 2018. Archived from the original on 12 November 2018.
11. "Season fixture: 2019 Women's Sevens". Oceania Rugby. Retrieved 4 November 2019.
12. "Sport: Oceania Sevens for 2020 cancelled". Radio New Zealand . 8 September 2020. Archived from the original on 7 September 2020.

External links

• Oceania Rugby official website