Oceania Rugby Women's Sevens Championship

The Oceania Rugby Women's Sevens Championship is the regional championship for women's international rugby sevens in Oceania. The tournament is held over two days, typically on a weekend. It is sanctioned and sponsored by Oceania Rugby, which is the rugby union governing body for the region.

Oceania Rugby Women's Sevens Championship
Current season, competition or edition:
Current sports event 2023 Oceania Women's Sevens Championship
SportRugby sevens
Founded2007
Inaugural season2008
Countries15 (in 2019)
Most recent
champion(s)		 New Zealand (2021)
Most titles Australia (5 titles)

The first official regional 7s championship for international women's teams from Oceania was the Pacific tournament held in Port Moresby in 2007. This was followed by the Oceania Championship in 2008.

The Oceania Rugby Women's Sevens serves as a qualification tournament for the following:[1]

Tournaments Summary

Results by year
Year Venue Winner Runner-up Refs
Pacific 7s
2007 Papua New Guinea Port Moresby  Fiji  Samoa [2]
Oceania 7s
2008 Samoa Apia  Australia  New Zealand [3]
2012 Fiji Lautoka  New Zealand  Australia [4]
2013 Australia Noosa  Australia  Fiji [5]
2014 Australia Noosa  New Zealand  Australia [6]
2015 New Zealand Auckland  Fiji  Samoa [7]
2016 Fiji Suva  Australia  Fiji [8]
2017 Fiji Suva  New Zealand  Australia [9]
2018 Fiji Suva  Australia  New Zealand [10]
2019 Fiji Suva  Australia  Fiji [11]
2020 No Tournament [12]
2021 Australia Townsville  New Zealand  Australia
2022 New Zealand Pukekohe  New Zealand  Australia

2007 Pacific Tournament

Played 1 and 2 December at Port Moresby, PNG (source IRB)

  • Fiji 40-0 Niue
  • Samoa 17-17 Papua New Guinea
  • Fiji 46-0 Papua New Guinea
  • Samoa 29-0 Niue
  • Fiji 26-7 Samoa
  • Niue vs Papua New Guinea

Classification Stages

Plate Final

  • Papua New Guinea 38-0 Niue

Final

  • Fiji 31-5 Samoa

2014

Coral Coast Sevens

The fifth edition of the tournament was held on 13–15 November 2014 at Sigatoka, Lawaqa Park, (Fiji). 12 women's teams and 24 men's teams were invited to compete for a total prize pool of $75,000.[13]

International matches:

  • PNG 34–7 New Caledonia
  • Australia 36–5 New Caledonia

New Caledonia lost in Bowl final; PNG won the Plate final; Fiji lose Vs Serevi Selects (mainly USA) in Cup semi-finals; Australia won Cup final 19-7 Vs Serevi Selects.[14]

See also

References
  1. "Women's Sevens Championship". oceania.rugby. Retrieved 2021-11-28.
  2. "Fijiana take Pacific women's Sevens". IRB. 2007. Archived from the original on 4 April 2008. Retrieved 2 January 2016.
  3. "Oceania Sevens women's final". Oceania Rugby. 2008. Archived from the original on 27 February 2015.
  4. "New Zealand claim Oceania Women's Sevens Championship". Oceania Rugby. 2012. Archived from the original on 9 December 2013.
  5. "Women's Sevens Statistics - Day 2" (PDF). Oceania Rugby. 2013. Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 October 2013.
  6. "Fiji and New Zealand win the Oceania Sevens". IRB. 2014. Archived from the original on October 6, 2014.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  7. "Australia and Fijiana Win Places at 2016 Olympic Games Sevens". Oceania Rugby. 2015. Archived from the original on 15 November 2015.
  8. "Australian women win Oceania rugby sevens". Special Broadcasting Service. 12 November 2016. Archived from the original on 9 March 2017.
  9. "Sevens Action to Return to Fiji in 2017". Oceania Rugby. 19 September 2017. Retrieved 20 September 2017.
  10. "Australia and Fiji triumph at Oceania Rugby Sevens". World Rugby. 10 November 2018. Archived from the original on 12 November 2018.
  11. "Season fixture: 2019 Women's Sevens". Oceania Rugby. Retrieved 4 November 2019.
  12. "Sport: Oceania Sevens for 2020 cancelled". Radio New Zealand. 8 September 2020. Archived from the original on 7 September 2020.
  13. "Bayleys Fiji Coral Coast Sevens". Fiji Travel. 2014. Archived from the original on 2 July 2014. Retrieved 21 February 2015.
  14. "Aussie Pearls win Coral Coast Sevens". Australian Rugby. 16 November 2014. Archived from the original on 21 February 2015. Retrieved 21 February 2015.
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