Australian Women's Sevens

The Australian Women's Sevens, currently hosted in Sydney, is an annual rugby sevens tournament and one of the stops on the World Rugby Women's Sevens Series. Australia joined the women's circuit in 2017 for the fifth edition of the series.

For the men's event, see Australian Sevens. For the teams, see Australia rugby sevens team and Australia women's rugby sevens team.

Australian Women's Sevens
Recent tournament
2020 Sydney Women's Sevens
SportRugby sevens
Inaugural season2017
Number of teams12
Holders New Zealand (2020)
Most titles New Zealand (2nd title)

Originally hosted at the Sydney Football Stadium [1] prior to its demolition and rebuilding, both the men's and women's events for the Sydney Sevens tournament were moved to the Sydney Showground Stadium in 2019,[2] and then to Western Sydney Stadium for 2020.[3]

Champions
Year  Venue  Cup final Placings Refs
Winner Score Runner-up Third Fourth Fifth
2017 Sydney Football Stadium
Canada		 21–17
United States
New Zealand
Australia
Fiji		 [4]
2018 Sydney Football Stadium
Australia		 31–0
New Zealand
Canada
Russia
France
2019 Sydney Showground
New Zealand		 34–10
Australia
United States
Ireland
Canada
2020 Western Sydney Stadium
New Zealand		 33–7
Canada
Australia
France
Fiji

See also

References
  1. "Australia's Olympic champion women to join Sydney Sevens event in 2017". The Guardian. 26 August 2016. Archived from the original on 30 August 2016. Retrieved 30 August 2016.
  2. "Sydney 7s has a new home in 2019" (Press release). Rugby Australia. 25 May 2018. Retrieved 6 August 2018.
  3. "HSBC Sydney 7s heads to Bankwest Stadium". Rugby Australia. 3 June 2019. Archived from the original on 4 June 2019.
  4. "Canada beats United States in Sydney Sevens women's final". Fox Sports. Retrieved 7 March 2017.


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