Oceania Women's Sevens Championship

The Oceania Women's Sevens 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 Women's Sevens Championship
SportRugby sevens
Founded2007
Countries15 (in 2019)
Most recent
champion(s)		 Australia (2019)

Rugby sevens — also known as 7-a-side, or 7s — is a short form of the sport of rugby union that was first played in 1883. The first (men's) internationals took place in 1973. As women's rugby union developed in the 1960s and 1970s the format became very popular as it allowed games, and entire leagues, to be developed in countries even when player numbers were small, and it remains the main form the women's game is played in most parts of the world.

However, although the first women's international rugby union 15-a-side test match took place in 1982, it was not until 1997 before the first women's international 7s tournaments were played, when the 1997 Hong Kong Sevens included a women's tournament for the first time. Over the next decade the number of tournaments grew, with almost every region developing regular championship competitions. This reached its zenith with 2009's inaugural women's tournament for the Rugby World Cup Sevens, shortly followed by the announcement that women's rugby sevens will be included in the Olympics from 2016.

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 Women's Sevens has periodically served as the regional pre-qualifying competition for the Rugby 7s World Cup, or other sevens tournaments.

The following are details of all official regional women's international championships played in the Oceania/Pacific region since the first tournament in 2007, listed chronologically with the earliest first, with all result details, where known (included are the Oceania Women's Sevens and other official regional championships, e.g. the Pacific Women's Sevens tournament).

Honours
Year Winner Tournament location Refs
Pacific 7s
2007  Fiji Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea [1]
Oceania 7s
2008  Australia Apia, Samoa [2]
2012  New Zealand Churchill Park, Lautoka, Fiji [3]
2013  Australia Noosa, Australia [4]
2014  New Zealand Noosa, Australia [5]
2015  Fiji Auckland, New Zealand [6]
2016  Australia Suva, Fiji [7]
2017  New Zealand Suva, Fiji [8]
2018  Australia Suva, Fiji [9]
2019  Australia Suva, Fiji [10]

Pacific Tournament 2007

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

Oceania Championship and World Cup Qualifier 2008

Venue/Date: 25–26 July 2008, Samoa. This will be a regional qualifier for the Dubai tournament in 2009 (source FORU)

Nation Won Drawn Lost For Against
 Australia 4 0 0 141 12
 New Zealand 3 0 1 124 25
 Fiji 2 0 2 89 64
 Samoa 1 0 3 60 92
 Niue 0 0 4 0 221
  • New Zealand 29-0 Samoa
  • Fiji 55-0 Niue
  • Australia 21-7 Fiji
  • Samoa 48-0 Niue
  • Niue 0-59 New Zealand
  • Samoa 0-46 Australia
  • Fiji 10-31 New Zealand
  • Australia 59-0 Niue
  • Australia 15-5 New Zealand
  • Samoa 12-17 Fiji

Classification Stages

Semi-finals (winners go to Dubai)

  • Australia 29-0 Samoa
  • New Zealand 35-10 Fiji

3rd Place

  • Samoa 7-24 Fiji

Cup Final

  • Australia 22-15 New Zealand

Oceania Championship and World Cup Pre-Qualifier 2012

3–4 August 2012, Churchill Park (Lautoka), Fiji [11]

Fiji qualify for the Asia/Oceania final qualifier in Pune. Top four teams qualify for the Borneo Asia-Pacific Sevens.

Pool Stages

Finals

Oceania Championship 2013

5–6 October 2013, Noosa, Australia.[12][13] Five teams attending.

Nation Won Drawn Lost For Against
 Australia 4 0 0 143 12
 New Zealand 3 0 1 124 31
 Fiji 2 0 2 97 62
 Samoa 0 1 3 12 121
 Papua New Guinea 0 1 3 7 157
  • New Zealand 48-0 Papua New Guinea
  • Australia 36-0 Fiji
  • Samoa 7-7 Papua New Guinea
  • Australia 19-7 New Zealand
  • Australia 48-0 Papua New Guinea
  • Fiji 31-0 Samoa
  • New Zealand 43-0 Samoa
  • Fiji 54-0 Papua New Guinea
  • Australia 40-5 Samoa
  • New Zealand 26-12 Fiji

Oceania Championship 2014

3–4 October 2014, Noosa, Australia.[14][15]

Day1
  • Fiji 38 Papua New Guinea 0
  • Australia 41 Tonga 0
  • New Zealand 41 Cook Islands 0
  • Samoa 24 Tonga 12
  • Australia 24 Fiji 5
  • Papua New Guinea 24 Cook Islands 10
  • Papua New Guinea 34 Tonga 14
  • Samoa 19 Cook Islands 0
  • New Zealand 24 Fiji 7
  • Tonga 5 Cook Islands 30
  • Samoa 12 Papua New Guinea 10
  • New Zealand 19 Australia 17
Day2
  • Fiji 50 Tonga 0
  • Australia 33 Cook Islands 0
  • New Zealand 40 Samoa 0
  • Fiji 50 Cook Islands 0
  • Australia 45 Samoa 0
  • New Zealand 29 Papua New Guinea 7
  • Fiji 31 Samoa 0
  • Australia 31 Papua New Guinea 0
  • New Zealand 52 Tonga 0
Nation Played Won Drawn Lost PF PA Diff
 New Zealand660020531174
 Australia650119124167
 Fiji640218148133
 Samoa630355138-83
 Papua New Guinea630375134-59
 Cook Islands600640172-132
 Tonga600631231-200

Notes: Samoa was ranked ahead of PNG due to winning their head-to-head match. There were no semifinals but the top two teams, New Zealand and Australia, played off in a final to decide the championship title.

Coral Coast Sevens 2014

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.[16]

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.[17]

Oceania Championship and Olympic Qualifier 2015
Main article: 2015 Oceania Women's Sevens Championship

14–15 November, Auckland, New Zealand.[18]

2016 Oceania Championship
Main article: 2016 Oceania Women's Sevens Championship

November 11–12, ANZ National Stadium, Suva, Fiji.

2017 Oceania Championship
Main article: 2017 Oceania Women's Sevens Championship

November 10–11, Suva, Fiji.

2018 Oceania Championship
Main article: 2018 Oceania Women's Sevens Championship

November 9–10, Suva, Fiji.

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