Australian_Women's_Sevens Knowpia

Australian Women's Sevens
Recent tournament; 2024 Australia Sevens
Sport	Rugby sevens
Inaugural season	2017
Number of teams	12
Holders	Ireland (2024)
Most titles	New Zealand (3)

The Australian Women's Sevens, currently hosted in Sydney, 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.

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 edit

Champions edit

Year	Venue	Cup final			Placings			Refs
		Winner	Score	Runner-up	Third	Fourth	Fifth
2017	Sydney Football Stadium	Canada	21–17	United States	New Zealand	Australia	Fiji	^[4]
2018	Sydney Football Stadium	Australia	31–0	New Zealand	Canada	Russia	France
2019	Sydney Showground	New Zealand	34–10	Australia	United States	Ireland	Canada
2020	Western Sydney Stadium	New Zealand	35–0	Canada	Australia	France	Fiji
World Series tournaments planned for Sydney were cancelled in 2021 ^[5] and 2022,^[6] due to COVID-19.
2023	Sydney Football Stadium	New Zealand	33–7	France	United States	Ireland	Australia
2024	Perth Rectangular Stadium	Ireland	19–14	Australia	Great Britain	United States	New Zealand

References edit

^ "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.
^ "Sydney 7s has a new home in 2019" (Press release). Rugby Australia. 25 May 2018. Retrieved 6 August 2018.
^ "HSBC Sydney 7s heads to Bankwest Stadium". Rugby Australia. 3 June 2019. Archived from the original on 4 June 2019.
^ "Canada beats United States in Sydney Sevens women's final". Fox Sports. Retrieved 7 March 2017.
^ "2021 Hamilton, Sydney Sevens cancelled due to COVID-19". ESPN. 4 September 2021. Archived from the original on 4 September 2021.
^ 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.