2022 Rugby World Cup Sevens – Women's tournament

2022 Rugby World Cup Sevens – Women's tournament
Tournament details
Venue	Cape Town Stadium
Dates	9 – 11 September 2022
No. of nations	16
Final positions
Champions	Australia
Runner-up	New Zealand
Third place	France
Tournament statistics
Matches played	32
Top scorer(s)	Faith Nathan (45)
Most tries	Faith Nathan (9)
	← 2018

The women's tournament for the 2022 Rugby World Cup Sevens was held in Cape Town, South Africa from 9 to 11 September at the Cape Town Stadium.

Teams

The four semi-finalists from the 2018 Rugby World Cup Sevens were automatic qualifiers, with South Africa also qualifying as host.^[1] The remaining eleven places were decided in the six continental regions.^[1]

Region	Automatic qualifiers	Continental qualifiers	Total teams
Africa^[a]	South Africa (hosts)	Madagascar	2
North America^[b]	United States	Canada	2
South America^[c]	—	Brazil Colombia	2
Asia^[d]	—	China Japan	2
Europe^[e]	France	England Ireland Poland Spain	5
Oceania^[f]	Australia New Zealand (holders)	Fiji	3
Totals	5	11	16

Notes

^ Africa: The runner-up of the 2022 Africa Women's Sevens joined automatic qualifier South Africa (who won the tournament) at the 2022 Rugby World Cup Sevens.
^ North America: The winner of the 2022 RAN Women's Sevens Qualifiers joined automatic qualifier United States at the 2022 Rugby World Cup Sevens.
^ South America did not have an automatic qualifier but the top two teams from the 2021 Sudamérica Rugby Women's Sevens won qualifier berths.
^ Asia did not have an automatic qualifier but the top two teams from the 2021 Asia Rugby Women's Sevens Series won qualifier berths.
^ Europe: The top four teams from the 2022 European Qualifier event joined automatic qualifier France at the 2022 Rugby World Cup Sevens.
^ Oceania was not able to hold a qualifying tournament due to ongoing impacts of COVID-19 in 2021 and 2022. While New Zealand and Australia qualified automatically, the third qualifier berth at the 2022 Rugby World Cup Sevens was determined by the most recent placings in the World Rugby Series,^[2] awarded to Fiji who finished seventh in the 2020 World Series.^[2]

Draw

The ten core teams from the World Rugby Sevens Series were seeded according to their points accumulated across the 2019–20 and 2021–22 seasons.

Seed	Season Team	2019–20	2021–22	Total Points
1	Australia	80	80	160
2	New Zealand	96	57	153
3	France	70	60	130
4	United States	66	56	122
5	Canada	80	40	100
6	Fiji	38	60	98
7	Ireland	15	60	75
8	England	36	33	69
9	Spain	28	26	54
10	Brazil	10	24	30

The remaining six teams were seeded based on regional ranking positions in July 2022.^[3]

Seed	Team
11	Japan
12	China
13	Poland
14	South Africa
15	Colombia
16	Madagascar

Format

Like the previous edition, the tournament was played using a knock-out format.

Teams in the Championship Cup competed for the Rugby Sevens World Cup trophy and gold, silver and bronze medals.
Losing teams in the Championship Cup quarterfinals played off for 5th to 8th place.
Losing teams in the Championship Cup Round of 16 (first round) competed for the Challenge Trophy and lower places.
All teams played four matches.

Tournament

Match results as per the official website:^[4]

All times are local (UTC+2).

13th place

13th–16th semifinals		13th-place final

10 September – Cape Town Stadium

Madagascar	5
		11 September – Cape Town Stadium
China	36
		China	21
10 September – Cape Town Stadium
		South Africa	19
South Africa	27

Colombia	0
		15th-place final

		11 September – Cape Town Stadium

		Madagascar	19

		Colombia	12

Matches

13th–16th semi-finals

Match 17	10 September	Madagascar	5–36	China	Cape Town Stadium
	15:05

Match 18	10 September	South Africa	27–0	Colombia	Cape Town Stadium
	15:27

15th-place final

Match 25	11 September	Madagascar	19-12	Colombia	Cape Town Stadium
	14:15

13th-place final

Match 26	11 September	China	21-19	South Africa	Cape Town Stadium
	14:37

Challenge Trophy

Challenge quarter-finals		Challenge semi-finals		Challenge final

10 September – Cape Town Stadium

Spain	12
		10 September – Cape Town Stadium
Madagascar	0
		Spain	10
10 September – Cape Town Stadium
		Poland	19
Poland	20
				11 September – Cape Town Stadium
China	14
				Poland	12
10 September – Cape Town Stadium
				Japan	17
Japan	14
		10 September – Cape Town Stadium
South Africa	12
		Japan	19
10 September – Cape Town Stadium
		Brazil	10	11th-place final
Colombia	0
				11 September – Cape Town Stadium
Brazil	33
				Spain	17

				Brazil	19

Matches

Challenge quarter-finals

Match 9	10 September	Madagascar	0–12	Spain	Cape Town Stadium
	09:53

Match 10	10 September	Colombia	0–33	Brazil	Cape Town Stadium
	10:15

Match 11	10 September	South Africa	12–14	Japan	Cape Town Stadium
	10:37

Match 12	10 September	Poland	20–14	China	Cape Town Stadium
	10:59

Challenge semi-finals

Match 19	10 September	Spain	10–19	Poland	Cape Town Stadium
	15:49

Match 20	10 September	Brazil	10–19	Japan	Cape Town Stadium
	16:11

11th-place final

Match 27	11 September	Spain	17–19	Brazil	Cape Town Stadium
	14:59

Challenge final

Match 28	11 September	Poland	12–17	Japan	Cape Town Stadium
	15:21

5th place

5th–8th semi-finals		5th-place final

11 September – Cape Town Stadium

England	7
		11 September – Cape Town Stadium
Canada	22
		Canada	0
11 September – Cape Town Stadium
		Fiji	53
Fiji	24

Ireland	0
		7th-place final

		11 September – Cape Town Stadium

		England	10

		Ireland	26

Matches

5th–8th semi-finals

Match 21	11 September	England	7–22	Canada	Cape Town Stadium
	10:18

Match 22	11 September	Fiji	24–0	Ireland	Cape Town Stadium
	10:40

7th-place final

Match 29	11 September	England	10–26	Ireland	Cape Town Stadium
	17:31

5th-place final

Match 30	11 September	Canada	0–53	Fiji	Cape Town Stadium
	17:53

Championship Cup

Round of 16

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

Cup final

9 September – Cape Town Stadium

Australia (1)

48

10 September – Cape Town Stadium

Madagascar (16)

0

Australia

35

9 September – Cape Town Stadium

England

5

Spain (9)

5

11 September – Cape Town Stadium

England (8)

29

Australia

17

9 September – Cape Town Stadium

United States

7

Canada (5)

24

10 September – Cape Town Stadium

China (12)

5

Canada

7

9 September – Cape Town Stadium

United States

10

Poland (13)

7

11 September – Cape Town Stadium

United States (4)

39

Australia

24

9 September – Cape Town Stadium

New Zealand

22

France (3)

29

10 September – Cape Town Stadium

South Africa (14)

0

France

19

9 September – Cape Town Stadium

Fiji

14

Japan (11)

7

11 September – Cape Town Stadium

Fiji (6)

36

France

7

9 September – Cape Town Stadium

New Zealand

38

Bronze final

Ireland (7)

24

10 September – Cape Town Stadium

11 September – Cape Town Stadium

Brazil (10)

12

Ireland

0

United States

7

9 September – Cape Town Stadium

New Zealand

28

France

29

Colombia (15)

5

New Zealand (2)

47

Matches

Round of 16

Match 1	9 September	Australia	48–0	Madagascar	Cape Town Stadium
	12:11

Match 4	9 September	United States	39–7	Poland	Cape Town Stadium
	12:33

Match 5	9 September	Canada	24–5	China	Cape Town Stadium
	12:55

Match 6	9 September	Fiji	36–7	Japan	Cape Town Stadium
	13:17

Match 7	9 September	Ireland	24–12	Brazil	Cape Town Stadium
	13:54

Match 8	9 September	England	29–5	Spain	Cape Town Stadium
	14:16

Match 2	9 September	New Zealand	47–5	Colombia	Cape Town Stadium
	17:37

Match 3	9 September	France	29–0	South Africa	Cape Town Stadium
	18:35

Quarter-finals

Match 13	10 September	Australia	35–5	England	Cape Town Stadium
	19:07

Match 14	10 September	New Zealand	28–0	Ireland	Cape Town Stadium
	20:05

Match 15	10 September	France	19–14	Fiji	Cape Town Stadium
	21:05

Match 16	10 September	United States	10–7	Canada	Cape Town Stadium
	22:05

Semi-finals

Match 23	11 September	New Zealand	38–7	France	Cape Town Stadium
	12:07

Match 24	11 September	Australia	17–7	United States	Cape Town Stadium
	13:05

Bronze final

Match 31	11 September	United States	7–29	France	Cape Town Stadium
	19:01

Cup final

Match 32	11 September	Australia	24–22	New Zealand	Cape Town Stadium
	20:17

Final placings

Place	Team
	Australia
	New Zealand
	France
4	United States
5	Fiji
6	Canada
7	Ireland
8	England

Place	Team
9	Japan
10	Poland
11	Brazil
12	Spain
13	China
14	South Africa
15	Madagascar
16	Colombia

Player scoring

Tries scored
Rank	Player	Tries
1	Faith Nathan	9
2	Ana Maria Naimasi	6
3	Nadine Roos	5
	Reapi Ulunisau
	Wakaba Hara

Points scored
Rank	Player	Points
1	Faith Nathan	45
2	Ana Maria Naimasi	34
3	Reapi Ulunisau	33
4	Risi Pouri-Lane	32
5	Nadine Roos	31

Source: [1]

References

^ ^a ^b "Qualifying". RWC Sevens. Archived from the original on 25 May 2021. Retrieved 20 July 2021.
^ ^a ^b "Oceania Rugby confirms 2022 Commonwealth Games and Rugby World Cup Sevens 2022 Qualifiers". Oceania Rugby. 9 March 2022. Archived from the original on 14 March 2022.
^ "First matches for RWC 2022 Sevens revealed". Rugby Asia 2/47. 21 July 2022.
^ "Rugby World Cup Sevens 2022 - Matches". rwcsevens.com. World Rugby. Retrieved 19 August 2022.

[2] Africa: The runner-up of the 2022 Africa Women's Sevens joined automatic qualifier South Africa (who won the tournament) at the 2022 Rugby World Cup Sevens.

[3] North America: The winner of the 2022 RAN Women's Sevens Qualifiers joined automatic qualifier United States at the 2022 Rugby World Cup Sevens.

[4] South America did not have an automatic qualifier but the top two teams from the 2021 Sudamérica Rugby Women's Sevens won qualifier berths.

[5] Asia did not have an automatic qualifier but the top two teams from the 2021 Asia Rugby Women's Sevens Series won qualifier berths.

[6] Europe: The top four teams from the 2022 European Qualifier event joined automatic qualifier France at the 2022 Rugby World Cup Sevens.

[8] Oceania was not able to hold a qualifying tournament due to ongoing impacts of COVID-19 in 2021 and 2022. While New Zealand and Australia qualified automatically, the third qualifier berth at the 2022 Rugby World Cup Sevens was determined by the most recent placings in the World Rugby Series,^[2] awarded to Fiji who finished seventh in the 2020 World Series.^[2]

[wrcq-1] "Qualifying". RWC Sevens. Archived from the original on 25 May 2021. Retrieved 20 July 2021.

[or-2022-7] "Oceania Rugby confirms 2022 Commonwealth Games and Rugby World Cup Sevens 2022 Qualifiers". Oceania Rugby. 9 March 2022. Archived from the original on 14 March 2022.

[9] "First matches for RWC 2022 Sevens revealed". Rugby Asia 2/47. 21 July 2022.

[10] "Rugby World Cup Sevens 2022 - Matches". rwcsevens.com. World Rugby. Retrieved 19 August 2022.

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v t e 2022 Rugby World Cup Sevens
World Rugby Men’s Qualifying Women’s Qualifying
Tournaments	Men Women
Men’s teams	Australia Argentina Canada Chile England Fiji France Germany Hong Kong Ireland Jamaica Kenya New Zealand Portugal Samoa Scotland South Africa South Korea Tonga Uganda United States Uruguay Wales Zimbabwe
Women’s teams	Australia Brazil Canada China Colombia England Fiji France Ireland Japan Madagascar New Zealand Poland South Africa Spain United States
Squads	Men Women
2019–20 World Rugby Sevens Series 2021–22 World Rugby Women's Sevens Series

v t e Rugby World Cup Sevens
Editions	Scotland 1993 Hong Kong 1997 Argentina 2001 Hong Kong 2005 UAE 2009 M W Russia 2013 M W USA 2018 M W South Africa 2022 M W
Qualifying	1993 1997 2001 2005 2009 M W 2013 M W 2018 M W 2022 M W
Squads	1993 1997 2001 2005 2009 M W 2013 M W 2018 M W 2022 M W
See also	1973 International Seven-a-side Tournament Melrose Cup

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Teams

Draw

Format

Tournament

13th place

Challenge Trophy

5th place

Championship Cup

Final placings

Player scoring

See also

References