2016–17 World Rugby Sevens Series

The 2016–17 World Rugby Sevens Series, known for sponsorship reasons as the HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series, was the 18th annual series of rugby sevens tournaments for national rugby sevens teams. The Sevens Series has been run by World Rugby since 1999–2000. South Africa won the Series with a comfortable 28-point margin over England; South Africa won five of the ten tournaments.

2016–17 World Rugby Sevens
Series XVIII
Hosts
Date2 Dec 2016 – 21 May 2017
Final positions
Champions South Africa
Runners-up England
Third Fiji

The 2016–17 Series also served as a qualifying tournament for the 2018 Rugby World Cup Sevens. Nine of the core teams had already qualified but the four highest-placed finishers from among the remaining six core teams also gained qualification for the 2018 RWC Sevens.[1]

Core teams

Tour venues

The official schedule for the 2016–17 World Rugby Sevens Series was as follows:[3]

2016–17 Venues
Leg Stadium City Date Winner
DubaiThe SevensDubai2–3 December 2016 South Africa
South AfricaCape Town StadiumCape Town10–11 December 2016 England
New ZealandWellington Regional StadiumWellington28–29 January 2017 South Africa
AustraliaSydney Football StadiumSydney4–5 February 2017 South Africa
United StatesSam Boyd StadiumLas Vegas3–5 March 2017 South Africa
CanadaBC PlaceVancouver11–12 March 2017 England
Hong KongHong Kong StadiumHong Kong7–9 April 2017 Fiji
SingaporeNational StadiumSingapore15–16 April 2017 Canada
FranceStade Jean-BouinParis13–14 May 2017 South Africa
EnglandTwickenham StadiumLondon20–21 May 2017 Scotland

There were no major changes to the schedule.

Standings

Final table:

2016–17 World Rugby Sevens – Series XVIII
 
Pos.
Event 
Team

Dubai

Cape Town

Well­ington

Sydney

Las Vegas

Van­couver

Hong Kong

Singa­pore

Paris

London
Points
total
   
1 South Africa 2219222222 1919122213192
2 England 1722101913 2210171519164
3 Fiji 1913191319 172210108150
4 New Zealand 1017121715 1313131710137
5 United States 81051217 1515191315129
6 Australia 13571512 101715712113
7 Scotland 12151715 3871922109
8 Canada 3315310 10102251798
9 Argentina 57131010 1212381090
10 Wales 15105103 8285773
11 France 1081075 15510566
12 Kenya 512828 57101563
13 Samoa 71357 71512351
14 Russia 15281 1522229
15 Japan 11152 2313120
16 Chile 1 56
17 Uganda 22 4
18 Papua New Guinea 11 2
19 Spain 112
20 South Korea 11
21 Hong Kong 11

Source: World Rugby. Archived [4]

Legend
Qualification for the 2017–18 World Sevens Series
No colour Core team in 2016–17 and re-qualified as a core team for the 2017–18 World Rugby Sevens Series
Pink Relegated as the lowest placed core team at the end of the 2016–17 season
Yellow Not a core team
Qualification for 2018 Rugby World Cup Sevens
Already confirmed for 2018 (host country United States and 2013 quarterfinalists)
Qualified as one of the four highest placed eligible teams from the 2016–17 World Rugby Sevens Series not already qualified.[5]

Players

Scoring leaders

Tries scored
RankPlayerTries
1United States Perry Baker57
2England Dan Norton51
3Canada Justin Douglas40
4South Africa Seabelo Senatla32
5Scotland James Fleming32
Points scored
RankPlayerPoints
1United States Perry Baker285
2Wales Ethan Davies281
3United States Madison Hughes279
4Canada Nathan Hirayama269
5Scotland Scott Wight266

Updated: 22 May 2017

Dream Team

ForwardsBacks
South Africa Chris Dry
Fiji Kalione Nasoko
United States Danny Barrett
Fiji Jerry Tuwai
South Africa Rosko Specman
England Dan Norton
United States Perry Baker

Placings summary

Tallies of top four tournament placings during the 2016–17 series, by team:

Cup
Team 1st place, gold medalist(s) Gold 2nd place, silver medalist(s) Silver 3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Bronze Fourth Total
 South Africa 53--8
 England 22217
 Fiji 131-5
 Scotland 11114
 Canada 1-113
 United States -1135
 New Zealand --314
 Australia --123
 Wales ---11
Totals 1010101040

Tournaments

In this series, World Rugby abolished the minor trophies of Plate, Bowl and Shield that were previously awarded in the finals play-offs at each tournament. While the winner's Cup was retained as the major trophy, the awarding of gold, silver and bronze medals to players from the three respective top-placed teams was introduced for this series with the third placed match now renamed as the Bronze medal match. A Challenge Trophy was established for teams competing in the lower bracket of the finals play-offs at each tournament.[6] Additionally, the playing time for Cup final matches was reduced from 20 minutes to 14 minutes, in line with all other tournament matches.[7]

Dubai

Event Winners Score Finalists Semi-finalists
Cup  South Africa 26–14  Fiji  England (Bronze)
 Wales
5th Place  Australia 19–12  Scotland  France
 New Zealand
Challenge Trophy  United States 28–14  Samoa  Argentina
 Kenya
13th Place  Canada 20–17  Uganda  Japan
 Russia

Cape Town

Event Winners Score Finalists Semi-finalists
Cup  England 19–17  South Africa  New Zealand (Bronze)
 Scotland
5th Place  Fiji 33–21  Kenya  Wales
 United States
Challenge Trophy  France 19–7  Argentina  Australia
 Russia
13th Place  Canada 19–10  Uganda  Japan
 Samoa

Wellington

Event Winners Score Finalists Semi-finalists
Cup  South Africa 26–5  Fiji  Scotland (Bronze)
 Canada
5th Place  Argentina 17–12  New Zealand  England
 France
Challenge Trophy  Kenya 19–17  Australia  United States
 Wales
13th Place  Samoa 19–12  Russia  Japan
 Papua New Guinea

Sydney

Event Winners Score Finalists Semi-finalists
Cup  South Africa 29–14  England  New Zealand (Bronze)
 Australia
5th Place  Fiji 35–12  United States  Argentina
 Wales
Challenge Trophy  Russia 26–0  France  Samoa
 Japan
13th Place  Canada 10–5  Kenya  Papua New Guinea
 Scotland

Las Vegas

Event Winners Score Finalists Semi-finalists
Cup  South Africa 19–12  Fiji  United States (Bronze)
 New Zealand
5th Place  England 10–7  Australia  Argentina
 Canada
Challenge Trophy  Kenya 21–14  Samoa  France
 Scotland
13th Place  Wales 21–19  Japan  Chile
 Russia

Vancouver

Event Winners Score Finalists Semi-finalists
Cup  England 19–7  South Africa  Fiji (Bronze)
 United States
5th Place  New Zealand 17–14  Argentina  Canada
 Australia
Challenge Trophy  Wales 19–12  Samoa  Kenya
 Chile
13th Place  Scotland 24–19  Japan  France
 Russia

Hong Kong

Event Winners Score Finalists Semi-finalists
Cup  Fiji 22–0  South Africa  Australia (Bronze)
 United States
5th Place  New Zealand 10–7  Argentina  Canada
 England
Challenge Trophy  Scotland 21–19  Kenya  France
 Russia
13th Place  Japan 28–21  Wales  South Korea
 Samoa
World Series Qualifier  Spain 12–7  Germany  Chile
 Papua New Guinea

Singapore

Event Winners Score Finalists Semi-finalists
Cup  Canada 26–19  United States  England (Bronze)
 Australia
5th Place  New Zealand 17–12  South Africa  Kenya
 Fiji
Challenge Trophy  Wales 24–12  Scotland  Samoa
 France
13th Place  Argentina 40–19  Russia  Japan
 Hong Kong

Paris

Event Winners Score Finalists Semi-finalists
Cup  South Africa 15–5  Scotland  New Zealand (Bronze)
 England
5th Place  United States 24–19  Samoa  Fiji
 France
Challenge Trophy  Argentina 33–12  Australia  Canada
 Wales
13th Place  Japan 19–10  Russia  Spain
 Kenya

London

Event Winners Score Finalists Semi-finalists
Cup  Scotland 12–7  England  Canada (Bronze)
 United States
5th Place  South Africa 28–17  Australia  Argentina
 New Zealand
Challenge Trophy  Fiji 26–14  Wales  France
 Kenya
13th Place  Samoa 24–19  Russia  Japan
 Spain

See also

References

  1. "World Rugby". Archived from the original on 2016-12-20.
  2. "Japan win promotion to 2016-17 Series"
  3. "HSBC Sevens World Series". Worldrugby.org. 2016-05-23. Retrieved 2016-05-27.
  4. "HSBC Sevens World Series Standings". World Rugby. Archived from the original on 6 July 2017. Retrieved 3 December 2016.
  5. Rugby World Cup Sevens 2018 qualification process Archived 2018-06-12 at the Wayback Machine. World Rugby.
  6. "Men's and women's sevens winners to strike gold". World Rugby.org. 3 October 2016. Archived from the original on 4 October 2016.
  7. Newman, Beth (19 November 2016). "Big Sevens finals cut to seven minutes". rugby.com.au. Archived from the original on 19 May 2017.
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