Australian Sevens
| File:Sydney Sevens logo.png Sydney Sevens logo for 2016 | |
| Sport | Rugby sevens |
|---|---|
| First season | 1986 (Sydney) |
| No. of teams | 16 |
| Most recent champion(s) |  Australien |
| Most titles |  Neuseeland (6 times) |
The Australia Sevens is an international rugby sevens tournament that was first played in 1986. Currently hosted as the Sydney Sevens, the event is part of the World Rugby Sevens Series.[1] The tournament was held in Brisbane, in Adelaide, and on the Gold Coast in previous seasons.
History
The NSW Rugby Union hosted an international sevens tournament at Concord Oval in Sydney from 1986 to 1988, as part of Australia's Bicentennial celebrations. The Australian Rugby Football Union, now known as Rugby Australia, continued the event for a further year in 1989.[2]
The 2000 Brisbane Sevens was the first Australian Sevens tournament in the World Sevens Series run by the International Rugby Board (IRB), now known as World Rugby. It was the 7th tournament of the series in the inaugural 1999-2000 season and was hosted at Lang Park. Fiji played Australia in the final, and won the match in the dying seconds, thanks to a brilliant try to Waisale Serevi.[3] Brisbane's hosting rights for 2001 were withdrawn by the IRB because of the Australian Federal Government's sporting boycott of Fiji,[4] imposed after the 2000 Fijian coup d'état.[5] After sanctions were lifted later in 2001,[6] the remaining two tournaments of Brisbane's four year hosting agreement were played and won by Australia and England in 2002 and 2003 respectively.[7][8] Australia was not awarded a World Sevens tournament for the next three years.
Adelaide secured the hosting rights for the 2006/07 season. The 2007 Adelaide Sevens took place in April of that year, replacing the Singapore Sevens in the calendar.[9] The tournament was hosted at Adelaide Oval for five seasons, with the last edition of the Adelaide Sevens being held in 2011.
Gold Coast 7s
In April 2011, the ARU announced that the Australian leg of the Sevens World Series would be played at Skilled Park on the Gold Coast for at least the next four years.[10] The tournament was scheduled for the early part of the 2011/12 season, which meant that two World Sevens events were played in Australia in 2011. The Gold Coast tournament was initially named the "International Rugby Sevens Gold Coast",[10] but was later rebranded as the Gold Coast Sevens.[11]
The Gold Coast attendances for the 2013 and 2014 events were lower than expected,[12][13] and in March 2015 the ARU announced that Sydney would host the event for the next four years from the 2015–16 season.[13][14]
With the closure and rebuilding of Sydney Football Stadium, both men's and women's events for the Sydney Sevens tournament were moved to Sydney Showground Stadium in 2019,[15] and Western Sydney Stadium for 2020.[16]
Results by year
Sydney
| Year | Venue | Cup final | Placings | Refs | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Winner | Score | Runner-up | Plate | Bowl | Shield | |||
| 1986 |
Concord Oval |  Neuseeland |
32–0 |  Australien |
 Argentinien |
 Wales |
n/a | [17] [18] |
| 1987 |
Concord Oval | Australien |
22–10 | Neuseeland |
 Südkorea |
 Fidschi |
 Western Samoa |
[19] |
| 1988 |
Concord Oval | Neuseeland |
22–12 |  Scotland |
Fidschi |
Australien |
 Spanien |
[20] |
| 1989 |
Concord Oval | Neuseeland |
26–16 | Western Samoa |
Australien |
Fidschi |
n/a | [21] [22] |
Brisbane Sevens
| Year | Venue | Cup final | Placings | Refs | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Winner | Score | Runner-up | Plate | Bowl | Shield | |||
| 2000 | Lang Park | Fidschi |
24–21 | Australien |
Argentinien |
 Tonga |
n/a | [23] |
| 2001 | Tournament cancelled by IRB in response to the Australian Government's sporting sanctions against Fiji. | [4] | ||||||
| 2002 | Ballymore | Australien |
28–0 | Neuseeland |
Fidschi |
 Cook Inseln |
 Kanada |
|
| 2003 | Ballymore |  England |
28–14 | Fidschi |
Australien |
Tonga |
Cook Inseln |
|
Adelaide Sevens
| Year | Venue | Cup final | Placings | Refs | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Winner | Score | Runner-up | Plate | Bowl | Shield | |||
| 2007 | Adelaide Oval | Fidschi |
21–7 | Samoa |
Australien |
Wales |
Kanada |
|
| 2008 | Adelaide Oval |  Südafrika |
15–7 | Neuseeland |
Tonga |
Argentinien |
Wales |
|
| 2009 | Adelaide Oval | Südafrika |
26–7 |  Kenia |
England |
Samoa |
 Vereinigte Staaten |
|
| 2010 | Adelaide Oval | Samoa |
38–10 | Vereinigte Staaten |
Neuseeland |
England |
 Japan |
|
| 2011 | Adelaide Oval | Neuseeland |
28–20 | Südafrika |
Wales |
Vereinigte Staaten |
Japan |
|
Gold Coast Sevens
| Year | Venue | Cup final | Placings | Refs | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Winner | Score | Runner-up | Plate | Bowl | Shield | |||
| 2011–12 | Robina Stadium | Fidschi |
26–12 | Neuseeland |
Wales |
Argentinien |
 Papua-Neuguinea |
|
| 2012–13 | Robina Stadium | Fidschi |
32–14 | Neuseeland |
Argentinien |
Spanien |
Scotland |
|
| 2013–14 | Robina Stadium | Neuseeland |
40–19 | Australien |
Fidschi |
 Frankreich |
Vereinigte Staaten |
|
| 2014–15 | Robina Stadium | Fidschi |
31–24 | Samoa |
Neuseeland |
Frankreich |
Kanada |
|
Sydney Sevens
| Year | Venue | Cup final | Placings | Refs | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Winner | Score | Runner-up | Plate | Bowl | Shield | |||
| 2016 | Sydney Football Stadium | Neuseeland |
27–24 | Australien |
Argentinien |
Kanada |
Wales |
|
| Winner | Score | Runner-up | Third | Fourth | Challenge |
|||
| 2017 | Sydney Football Stadium | Südafrika |
29–14 | England |
Neuseeland |
Australien |
 Russland |
|
| 2018 | Sydney Football Stadium | Australien |
29–0 | Südafrika |
Argentinien |
Vereinigte Staaten |
Frankreich |
|
| 2019 | Sydney Showground | Neuseeland |
21–5 | Vereinigte Staaten |
England |
Fidschi |
Argentinien |
|
| 2020 | Western Sydney Stadium | Scheduled for 1–2 February 2020 | ||||||
Multiple winners
The following table shows the four teams that have won multiple championships during the World Series era (1999–2000 season to the present).
| Team | Champions |
|---|---|
| Fidschi | 5 |
| Neuseeland | 4 |
| Südafrika | 3 |
| Australien | 2 |
See also
References
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- ^ "Brisbane Sevens draw". espnscrum.com. 16 January 2002. Archived from the original on 8 December 2013. Retrieved 7 December 2013.
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{{cite web}}: Unknown parameter|deadurl=ignored (|url-status=suggested) (help) - ^ Tucker, Jim (13 October 2013). "ARU boss Bill Pulver considers switching Gold Coast Sevens to Brisbane or Sydney after poor crowds". The Courier Mail. Archived from the original on 11 October 2014. Retrieved 7 December 2013.
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- ^ "HSBC Sydney 7s heads to Bankwest Stadium". Rugby Australia. 3 June 2019. Archived from the original on 4 June 2019.
- ^ Hagerty, Ed (April 1986). "All Blacks: World 7s Champs" (PDF). Rugby. New York. pp. 6–10. Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 May 2017.
- ^ "Annual Report" (PDF). Australian Rugby. 1986. pp. 7–8. Archived from the original (PDF 2.3 MB) on 30 March 2016. Retrieved 6 August 2016.
- ^ "Annual Report" (PDF). Australian Rugby. 1987. p. 7. Archived from the original (PDF 1.6 MB) on 30 March 2016. Retrieved 6 August 2016.
- ^ "Annual Report" (PDF). Australian Rugby. 1988. p. 7. Archived from the original (PDF 2.3 MB) on 30 March 2016. Retrieved 6 August 2016.
- ^ "Gardner comeback in Sevens". The Sydney Morning Herald. 15 March 1989. Archived from the original on 9 July 2016. Retrieved 9 July 2016.
{{cite news}}: Unknown parameter|deadurl=ignored (|url-status=suggested) (help) - ^ "Annual Report" (PDF). Australian Rugby. 1989. p. 12. Archived from the original (PDF 2.9 MB) on 30 March 2016. Retrieved 6 August 2016.
- ^ "Sevens loss no disgrace". Illawarra Mercury. Fairfax. 21 February 2000. p. 34. Archived from the original on 27 May 2016. Retrieved 27 May 2016.
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