2022 Rugby World Cup Sevens
The 2022 Rugby World Cup Sevens will be the eighth edition of the Rugby World Cup Sevens organised by World Rugby. The 2022 tournament, which will again comprise 24 men's and 16 women's teams, will be played over three days in one venue between 30 September and 2 October. It will take place at the Cape Town Stadium in Cape Town, South Africa. It will be the first ever Rugby World Cup Sevens in Africa. The dates will be chosen to take into account the World Rugby Sevens Series and the Commonwealth Games tournament which will take place in July the same year.[1]
| Tournament details | |
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| Host nation |  South Africa |
| Venue | Cape Town Stadium, Cape Town |
| Dates | 30 September – 2 October |
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Bidding
World Rugby has confirmed that a record 11 unions have formally expressed interest in hosting Rugby World Cup Sevens 2022.[1] The unions have been issued formal bid application documents and were to submit their responses by 16 July 2019. .[1] South Africa was awarded the rights to host the tournament on 29 October 2019.[2]
Venue
The tournament will take place at the Cape Town Stadium in Cape Town.
South Africa will host Rugby World Cup Sevens 2022 after the World Rugby Council awarded the hosting rights for the tournament to South Africa at its Interim Meeting in Tokyo on 30 October 2019.
In September 2022 the eighth edition of the showcase event will take place in Cape Town in what will be the first time that Rugby World Cup Sevens has been hosted on the African continent.
The world’s best 24 men’s and 16 women’s rugby sevens teams will take to the field at the Cape Town Stadium in Green Point where they will compete for world champion status over three days of action.
The 55,000-capacity stadium is the same venue that has hosted the Cape Town Sevens since 2015, and for the first time this year will host both men’s and women’s teams across three days of competition as part of the new-look World Rugby Sevens Series.
The 2022 tournament follows a Rugby World Cup Sevens 2018 in San Francisco which attracted a record attendance for a rugby event in the USA of more than 100,000 fans, as well as a huge domestic broadcast audience of more than nine million viewers.
The three-day event, hosted at AT&T Park, generated a US$90.5 million economic contribution to San Francisco (Nielsen Sport) and saw both New Zealand’s men’s and women’s teams retain the title.
The awarding of the tournament to South Africa comes after an initial record of 11 unions – Argentina, Cayman Islands, France, Germany, India, Jamaica, Malaysia, Qatar, Scotland, South Africa and Tunisia – confirmed an expression of interest to the international federation.