Australian Sevens

Australian Sevens

Sydney Sevens logo for 2016
Sport Rugby sevens
Inaugural season 1986  (Sydney)
No. of teams 16
Most recent
champion(s)		  New Zealand
Most titles  New Zealand  (6 times)

Australian Sevens international rugby sevens tournaments have been played since 1986. Currently hosted as the Sydney Sevens, the event is part of the Sevens World 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 Union 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). 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the match in the dying seconds, thanks to a brilliant try to Waisale Serevi.[3] Brisbane's hosting rights for 2001 were withdrawn by the IRB because of the Australian Federal Government's sporting boycott of Fiji,[4] imposed after the 2000 Fijian coup d'état.[5] After sanctions were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.

Logo of the
Gold Coast 7s

In April 2011, the Australian Rugby Union 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]

Results

  A blue box around the year indicates tournaments included in the World Rugby Sevens Series.

Sydney

Year  Venue  Cup final Placings Refs
Winner Score Runner-up Plate Bowl Shield
1986
 Concord Oval
New Zealand		 32–0
Australia		  
Argentina
Wales		 n/a [15][16]
1987
 Concord Oval
Australia		 22–10
New Zealand
South Korea
Fiji
Western Samoa		 [17]
1988
 Concord Oval
New Zealand		 22–12
Scotland
Fiji
Australia
Spain		 [18]
1989
 Concord Oval
New Zealand		 26–16
Western Samoa
Australia
Fiji		 n/a [19][20]

Brisbane Sevens

Year  Venue  Cup final Placings Refs
Winner Score Runner-up Plate Bowl Shield
1999/00
Details 		Lang Park
Fiji		 24–21
Australia
Argentina
Tonga		 n/a [21]
2000/01
Details 		Tournament cancelled by IRB in response to the Australian Government's sporting sanctions against Fiji. [4]
2001/02
Details 		Ballymore
Australia		 28–0
New Zealand
Fiji
Cook Islands
Canada
2002/03
Details 		Ballymore
England		 28–14
Fiji
Australia
Tonga
Cook Islands

Adelaide Sevens

Year  Venue  Cup final Placings Refs
Winner Score Runner-up Plate Bowl Shield
2006/07
Details 		Adelaide Oval
Fiji		 21–7
Samoa
Australia
Wales
Canada
2007/08
Details 		Adelaide Oval
South Africa		 15–7
New Zealand
Tonga
Argentina
Wales
2008/09
Details 		Adelaide Oval
South Africa		 26–7
Kenya
England
Samoa
United States
2009/10
Details 		Adelaide Oval
Samoa		 38–10
United States
New Zealand
England
Japan
2010/11
Details 		Adelaide Oval
New Zealand		 28–20
South Africa
Wales
United States
Japan

Gold Coast Sevens

Year  Venue  Cup final Placings Refs
Winner Score Runner-up Plate Bowl Shield
2011/12
Details		 Robina Stadium
Fiji		 26–12
New Zealand
Wales
Argentina
Papua New Guinea
2012/13
Details		 Robina Stadium
Fiji		 32–14
New Zealand
Argentina
Spain
Scotland
2013/14
Details		 Robina Stadium
New Zealand		 40–19
Australia
Fiji
France
United States
2014/15
Details		 Robina Stadium
Fiji		 31–24
Samoa
New Zealand
France
Canada

Sydney Sevens

Year  Venue  Cup final Placings Refs
Winner Score Runner-up Plate Bowl Shield
2015/16
Details		 Sydney Football Stadium
New Zealand		 27–24
Australia
Argentina
Canada
Wales
Winner Score Runner-up Third Fourth Challenge Trophy
2016/17
Details		 Sydney Football Stadium
South Africa		 29–14
England
New Zealand
Australia
Russia

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Sydney takes over from Gold Coast as Sevens host". The Roar. Retrieved 9 March 2015.
  2. ↑ Sydney 1986–. Rugby 7.
  3. ↑ "Brisbane Sevens draw". espnscrum.com. 16 January 2002. Archived from the original on 8 December 2013. Retrieved 7 December 2013.
  4. 1 2 Funnell, Camille (15 January 2001). "Australia misses out on hosting World Rugby Sevens tournament". abc.net.au. Archived from the original on 7 December 2013. Retrieved 7 December 2013.
  5. ↑ Bormann, Trevor (18 July 2000). "Australia places 'smart' sanctions on Fiji". abc.net.au. Archived from the original on 29 September 2004. Retrieved 7 December 2013.
  6. ↑ Downer, Alexander (5 October 2001). "Sanctions Against Fiji are Lifted" (Press release). Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs. Archived from the original on 11 October 2014. Retrieved 7 December 2013.
  7. ↑ "IRB Sevens III - Brisbane, Australia. 3/2/2002 - 3/3/2002". rugby7.com. 2002. Archived from the original on 12 December 2013. Retrieved 12 December 2013.
  8. ↑ "IRB Sevens IV - Brisbane, Australia. 2/1/2003 - 3/1/2003". rugby7.com. 2003. Archived from the original on 12 December 2013. Retrieved 12 December 2013.
  9. ↑ "Adelaide Sevens" (Press release). rugby.com.au. Archived from the original on 29 April 2007. Retrieved 2007-04-07.
  10. 1 2 "Gold Coast to Become New Home for Australian Sevens" (Press release). Australian Rugby Union. 13 April 2011. Archived from the original on 11 October 2011. Retrieved 27 April 2011.
  11. ↑ "Gold Coast Sevens". Australian Rugby Union. Archived from the original on 6 August 2011. Retrieved 29 August 2011.
  12. ↑ 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 7 December 2013. Retrieved 7 December 2013.
  13. 1 2 "Sevens World Series moves to Sydney in 2015-16 season". The Sydney Morning Herald. 9 March 2015. Archived from the original on 9 March 2015. Retrieved 9 March 2015.
  14. ↑ "HSBC partners with World Rugby for record-breaking sevens properties". Australian Rugby. 30 June 2015. Archived from the original on 30 June 2015. Retrieved 30 June 2015.
  15. ↑ Hagerty, Ed (April 1986). "All Blacks: World 7s Champs" (PDF). Rugby. New York. pp. 6–10. Archived (PDF) from the original on 26 May 2017. Retrieved 26 May 2017.
  16. ↑ "Annual Report" (PDF 2.3 MB). Australian Rugby. 1986. pp. 7–8. Archived (PDF) from the original on 30 March 2016. Retrieved 6 August 2016.
  17. ↑ "Annual Report" (PDF). Australian Rugby. 1987. p. 7. Archived from the original on 30 March 2016. Retrieved 6 August 2016.
  18. ↑ "Annual Report" (PDF 2.3 MB). Australian Rugby. 1988. p. 7. Archived (PDF) from the original on 30 March 2016. Retrieved 6 August 2016.
  19. ↑ "Gardner comeback in Sevens". The Sydney Morning Herald. 15 March 1989. Archived from the original on 9 July 2016. Retrieved 9 July 2016.
  20. ↑ "Annual Report" (PDF 2.9 MB). Australian Rugby. 1989. p. 12. Archived (PDF) from the original on 30 March 2016. Retrieved 6 August 2016.
  21. ↑ "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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