Rugby sevens at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament

2016 Men's Olympic Rugby Sevens Tournament

Tournament details
Host	Brasilien
Venue	Deodoro Stadium
Date	9–11 August 2016
Teams	12

The men's rugby sevens tournament at the 2016 Summer Olympics will be held in in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Rugby will be played at the Deodoro Stadium, a temporary outdoor stadium constructed as part of the Deodoro Modern Pentathlon Park. The tournament will be held from 9 August to 11 August, starting with group matches before finishing with the medal ceremony on the 11 August. The 2016 Games marks the first time that rugby sevens is played at the Olympics, and the first time since 1924 that any form of rugby is played at the Olympics.

Qualification

With Brazil being the hosts, their team automatically qualified despite their sevens team not regularly appearing in the World Rugby Sevens Series. The 2014–15 Sevens World Series was the initial stage of qualification, where the top 4 teams at the end of the series gaining qualification to the 2016 Olympic Games. Between June and September 2015, each of the six regional rugby unions held an Olympic qualification event, where one team from each region qualified, bring the total up to 11 team qualified. The final spot was determined by a repechage tournament held in Monaco, where the winner of that event became the final team to qualify for the 2016 Olympic Games.

As a result of England finishing fourth in the 2014–15 Sevens World Series, Great Britain were awarded a spot in the Olympic games, despite the other nations failing to qualify in the top 4. This is because Great Britain compete as one union in the Olympics and as several in international rugby (England, Wales, Scotland and a combined union from Northern Ireland and Republic of Ireland), which meant should one of either the England, Wales or Scotland teams qualify, then Great Britain would be awarded a spot in the Olympic Games. It was decided players based in Northern Ireland were not eligible to represent Great Britain in the rugby sevens tournament as these players represent the IRFU, and the union demanded that Northern Irish players, that have committed to play for the Irish rugby union, only play for Ireland despite being eligible under IOC rules to compete for Great Britain. The three remaining unions agreed in advance of the 2013–14 Sevens World Series that their highest-finishing teams in that season would represent all three unions in the first stage of qualification.

Qualified teams

Nation	Means of qualification
Brasilien	Host nation
Fidschi	2014–15 Sevens World Series top 4 finishers
Great Britain
Neuseeland
Südafrika
Argentinien	2015 CONSUR Sevens Champions
Vereinigte Staaten	2015 NACRA Sevens Champions
Frankreich	2015 Rugby Europe Sevens Champions
Japan	2015 ARFU Sevens Champions
Australien	2015 Oceania Sevens Champions
Kenia	2015 Rugby Africa Sevens Champions
Spanien	2016 Final Olympic Qualification Champions

Squads

Main article: Rugby sevens at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Men's team squads

Draw

The draw for the tournament took place on 28 June 2016. The 12 teams were seeded based on their points they have accumulated over the past two seasons on the Sevens Series circuit. The four teams that qualified directly from the 2014–15 Sevens World Series were guaranteed a top four seeding, with their positioning determined by their combined score over the two seasons.

Seed 1	Seed 2	Seed 3
Fidschi (1) Südafrika (2) Neuseeland (3) Great Britain (4)	Australien (5) Vereinigte Staaten (6) Argentinien (7) Frankreich (8)	Kenia (9) Japan (10) Spanien (11) Brasilien (12)

Pool stage

Key to colours in group tables
	Teams that advance to Quarterfinals
	Possible Quarterfinals place based on ranking

Group winners and runners-up advance to the quarter-finals. Third place teams drop to a third-placed teams table, where the top two third placed team advance to the quarter-finals.

Pool A

Team	Pld	W	D	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts
Fidschi	0	0	0	0	0	0	+0	0
Vereinigte Staaten	0	0	0	0	0	0	+0	0
Argentinien	0	0	0	0	0	0	+0	0
Brasilien	0	0	0	0	0	0	+0	0

Pool B

Team	Pld	W	D	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts
Südafrika	0	0	0	0	0	0	+0	0
Australien	0	0	0	0	0	0	+0	0
Frankreich	0	0	0	0	0	0	+0	0
Spanien	0	0	0	0	0	0	+0	0

Pool C

Team	Pld	W	D	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts
Neuseeland	0	0	0	0	0	0	+0	0
Great Britain	0	0	0	0	0	0	+0	0
Kenia	0	0	0	0	0	0	+0	0
Japan	0	0	0	0	0	0	+0	0

Ranking of third-placed teams

The top two of the third-placed teams advance to the knockout rounds.

Team	Pld	W	D	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts
TBD	0	0	0	0	0	0	+0	0
TBD	0	0	0	0	0	0	+0	0
TBD	0	0	0	0	0	0	+0	0

Knockout rounds

	Quarter-finals				Semi-finals				Final
	11 August 2016 – Deodoro Stadium
	Winner Pool A
					11 August 2016 – Deodoro Stadium
	2nd best 3rd
					TBD
	11 August 2016 – Deodoro Stadium
					TBD
	Runner-up B
									11 August 2016 – Deodoro Stadium
	Runner-up C
									TBD
	11 August 2016 – Deodoro Stadium
									TBD
	Winner Pool B
					11 August 2016 – Deodoro Stadium
	Best 3rd
					TBD
	11 August 2016 – Deodoro Stadium
					TBD				Third place
	Winner Pool C
									11 August 2016 – Deodoro Stadium
	Runner-up A
									TBD
									TBD

Match officials

On 11 April 2016, World Rugby announced a panel of twelve match officials for the men's sevens:. Two Brazilians were latter added assistant referees.

• Mike Adamson (Scotland)
• Federico Anselmi (Argentina)
• Nick Briant (New Zealand)
• Ben Crouse (South Africa)
• Craig Joubert (South Africa)
• Richard Kelly (New Zealand)
• Anthony Moyes (Australia)

• Matthew O'Brien (Australia)
• Taku Otsuki (Japan)
• Rasta Rasivhenge (South Africa)
• Alexandre Ruiz (France)
• Marius van der Westhuizen (South Africa)
• Henrique Platais (Brazil) – Assistant referee
• Ricardo Sant'Anna (Brazil) – Assistant referee

See also

• Rugby sevens at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament