2018 Men's Rugby World Cup Sevens qualifying
This is the qualifications of the 2018 Rugby World Cup Sevens aimed at selecting men's Rugby sevens national teams that will appear in the finals in San Francisco.
General
The tournament is organized by World Rugby to be held on 20–22 July 2018, with twenty-four teams in attendance. Automatic qualification is extended to the host and the eight quarterfinalists of the previous World Cup, as well as four other top finishing teams of the 2016-17 World Rugby Sevens Series.[1] The remaining seats were held in each of the six regions' respective tournaments.
Qualified teams
Qualifying
Africa
Twelve teams will be in attendance of Rugby Africa's Sevens tournament on 6–7 October 2017 in Kampala, Uganda. Since Kenya is automatically qualified, eleven other countries will contest the two qualifying slots.[2]
Americas North
The qualifying tournament, which is also Rugby Americas North Sevens, will take place at the Campo Marte in Mexico City, 25–26 November 2017.[3]
Asia
From 1 September to 14 October, eight teams will compete in Hong Kong, Incheon and Colombo for two world cup slots.[4]
Europe
From 4 June to 16 July 2017, twelve teams competed at the Sevens Grand Prix in Moscow, Łódź, Clermont-Ferrand and Exeter, of which nine contested two World Cup spots with England, France and Wales already automatically qualified.
References
External links
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Kenya
South Africa
Canada
United States
Argentina
England
France
Scotland
Wales
Australia
Fiji
New Zealand
Samoa
Ireland
Russia
Botswana
Ghana
Madagascar
Morocco
Namibia
Nigeria
Senegal
Tunisia
Uganda
Zimbabwe
China 
Chinese Taipei 
Hong Kong 
Japan 
Malaysia 
Philippines 
South Korea 
Sri Lanka 
Spain 
Germany 
Georgia 
Portugal 
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Belgium 
Poland