The Adelaide Sevens

Adelaide Sevens

The Adelaide Sevens is a rugby union sevens tournament, part of the IRB Sevens World Series. The competition is currently held at the Adelaide Oval, South Australia. The inaugural competition, the 2007 Adelaide Sevens, took place on 7 and 8 April and replaced the Singapore Sevens...

, also known as the Australia Sevens, is played annually as part of the IRB Sevens World Series

IRB Sevens World Series

The IRB Sevens World Series, known officially as the HSBC Sevens World Series as of the 2010-11 season, through sponsorship from banking group HSBC, and also sometimes called the World Sevens Series, is a series of international rugby union sevens tournaments organised for the first time in the...

 for international rugby sevens

Rugby sevens

Rugby sevens, also known as seven-a-side or VIIs, is a variant of rugby union in which teams are made up of seven players, instead of the usual 15, with shorter matches. Rugby sevens is administered by the International Rugby Board , the body responsible for rugby union worldwide...

 (seven-a-side version of rugby union

Rugby union

Rugby union, often simply referred to as rugby, is a full contact team sport which originated in England in the early 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand...

). The 2007 competition, which took place on 7 and 8 April, was played at the Adelaide Oval

Adelaide Oval

The Adelaide Oval is a sports ground in Adelaide, South Australia, located in the parklands between the Central Business District and North Adelaide...

, South Australia

South Australia

South Australia is a state of Australia in the southern central part of the country. It covers some of the most arid parts of the continent; with a total land area of , it is the fourth largest of Australia's six states and two territories.South Australia shares borders with all of the mainland...

. It was the first such tournament in Adelaide, replacing the Singapore Sevens, and is part of the 2006-07 IRB Sevens World Series

2006-07 IRB Sevens World Series

2006–07 IRB Sevens World Series was the eighth of an annual series of rugby union sevens tournaments for full national sides run by the International Rugby Board since 1999-2000.New Zealand won the 2006-07 series by winning the final tournament in Edinburgh...

.

The competition was won by Fiji

Fiji national rugby union team (sevens)

The Fiji Sevens side is one of the most popular and successful Sevens teams in the world and has won the Hong Kong Sevens a record nine times since its inception in 1976. Fiji has also won the Sevens World Cup twice, winning that event in 1997 and 2005...

.

Pool A

Team Pld W D L F A TOTAL 3 2 0 1 56 36 7 3 2 0 1 67 48 7 3 2 0 1 52 41 7 3 0 0 3 33 83 3

Results Fiji 33 - 7 Canada England 5 - 12 Tonga Fiji 22 - 21 Tonga England 31 - 12 Canada Canada 14 - 19 Tonga Fiji 12 - 20 England

Pool B

Team Pld W D L F A TOTAL 3 3 0 0 93 7 9 3 1 0 2 46 60 5 3 1 0 2 52 79 5 3 1 0 2 31 76 5

Results South Africa 15 - 0 Kenya France 12 - 19 Japan South Africa 42 - 0 Japan France 33 - 24 Kenya Kenya 22 - 12 Japan South Africa 36 - 7 France

Pool C

Team Pld W D L F A TOTAL 3 3 0 0 124 20 9 3 2 0 1 74 36 7 3 1 0 2 49 83 5 3 0 0 3 22 130 3

Results New Zealand 42 - 10 Wales Australia 46 - 0 Hong Kong Australia 24 - 15 Wales New Zealand 61 - 5 Hong Kong Wales 24 - 15 Hong Kong New Zealand 21 - 5 Australia

Group D

Team Pld W D L F A TOTAL 3 3 0 0 95 17 9 3 2 0 1 53 52 7 3 1 0 2 45 60 5 3 0 0 3 24 88 3

Results Samoa 26 - 10 Scotland Argentina 19 - 17 Portugal Samoa 50 - 0 Portugal Argentina 19 - 24 Scotland Scotland 19 - 7 Portugal Samoa 19 - 7 Argentina

Finals

• 1/4 final Bowl - Tonga 36 - 12 Japan
• 1/4 final Bowl - Argentina 33 - 5 Hong Kong
• 1/4 final Bowl - Wales 24 - 7 Portugal
• 1/4 final Bowl - France 17 - 14 Canada
• 1/4 final Cup - England 12 - 17 Kenya
• 1/4 final Cup - Samoa 22 - 17 Australia
• 1/4 final Cup - New Zealand 40 - 14 Scotland
• 1/4 final Cup - South Africa 17 - 22 Fiji
• SF Shield - Japan 29 - 10 Hong Kong
• SF Shield - Portugal 12 - 14 Canada
• SF Bowl - Tonga 17 - 12 Argentina
• SF Bowl - Wales 19 - 14 France
• SF Plate - England 21 - 26 Australia
• SF Plate - Scotland 5 - 42 South Africa
• SF Cup - Kenya 0 - 31 Samoa
• SF Cup - New Zealand 17 - 24 Fiji
• Final Shield - Japan 17 - 43 Canada
• Final Bowl - Tonga 14 - 26 Wales
• Final Plate - Australia 31 - 0 South Africa
• Final Cup - Samoa 7 - 21 Fiji

Round 6 table

{| class="wikitable"
! width=5%|Pos.
! Country !!   !!   !!   !!   !!  !!   !!  !!   !! Overall
|-
| 1 || || 12 || 12 || 16 || 20 || 24 || 20 |||||| 104
|-
| 2 || || 8 || 4 || 20 || 16 || 30 || 16 |||||| 94
|-
| 3 || || 16 || 20 || 12 || 12 || 18 || 12 |||||| 90
|-
| 4 || || 20 || 16 || 12 || 8 || 18 || 6 |||||| 80
|-
| 5 || || 12 || 12 || 8 || 4 || 8 || 4 |||||| 48
|-
| 6 || || 6 || 4 || 6 || 12 || 0 || 0 |||||| 28
|-
| 7 || || 4 || 2 || 0 || 4 || 8 || 8 |||||| 24
|-
| 8 || || 0 || 0 || 0 || 6 || 8 || 4 |||||| 18
|-
| 9 || || 0 || 0 || 4 || 0 || 0 || 12 |||||| 16
|-
| 10 || || 0 || 8 || - || - || 4 || 2 |||||| 14
|-
| 11 || || - || - || 0 || 2 || 8 || 0 |||||| 10
|-
| 12 || || 4 || 0 || 4 || 0 || 0 || 0 |||||| 8
|-
| 13 || || 2 || 0 || 2 || 0 || 3 || 0 |||||| 7
|-
| 14 || || 0 || 6 || - || - || 0 || 0 |||||| 6
|-
| 15 || || - || - || - || - || 1 || - |||||| 1
|-
| 16 || || 0 || 0 || 0 || 0 || 0 || 0 |||||| 0
|-
| 16 || || - || - || - || - || 0 || 0 |||||| 0
|-
| 16 || || - || - || - || - || 0 || 0 |||||| 0
|-
| 16 || || - || - || - || 0 || 0 || - |||||| 0
|-
| 16 || || - || - || - || - || 0 || - |||||| 0
|-
| 16 || || - || - || - || - || 0 || - |||||| 0
|-
| 16 || || - || - || - || - || 0 || - |||||| 0
|-
| 16 || || - || - || - || - || 0 |||||||| 0
|-
| 16 || || - || - || - || 0 || - || - |||||| 0
|-
| 16 || || - || - || - || 0 || - || - |||||| 0
|-
| 16 || || - || - || 0 || - || - || - |||||| 0
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| 16 || || - || - || 0 || - || - || - |||||| 0
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| 16 || || 0 || 0 || - || - || - || - |||||| 0
|-
| 16 || || - || 0 || - || - || - || - |||||| 0
|-
| 16 || || 0 || - || - || - || - || - |||||| 0
|}

External links

• IRB Sevens
• Adelaide Sevens
• Adelaide Sevens on rugby.com.au