The Dubai Sevens is played annually as part of the IRB Sevens World Series for international rugby sevens (seven-a-side version of rugby union). The 2008 competition was held on November 28 and 29 at The Sevens, a brand-new facility built to host the 2009 Rugby World Cup Sevens. It was the first of eight events in the 2008-09 IRB Sevens World Series. The top-tier Cup trophy was won by South Africa.
This was the first edition of the Dubai Sevens to be held at The Sevens. Previous editions were held at the Dubai Exiles Rugby Ground.
Format The tournament consists of four round-robin pools of four teams. All sixteen teams progress to the knockout stage. The top two teams from each group progress to quarter-finals in the main competition, with the winners of those quarter-finals competing in cup semi-finals and the losers competing in plate semi-finals. The bottom two teams from each group progress to quarter-finals in the consolation competition, with the winners of those quarter-finals competing in bowl semi-finals and the losers competing in shield semi-finals.
Teams
Pool stages
Pool A {| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;" |- !width="200"|Team !width="40"|Pld !width="40"|W !width="40"|D !width="40"|L !width="40"|PF !width="40"|PA !width="40"|+/- !width="40"|Pts
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Date Team 1 Score Team 2 2008-11-28 28 - 7 2008-11-28 21 - 12 2008-11-28 43 - 7 2008-11-28 22 - 17 2008-11-28 26 - 12 2008-11-28 33 - 7
Pool B {| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;" |- !width="200"|Team !width="40"|Pld !width="40"|W !width="40"|D !width="40"|L !width="40"|PF !width="40"|PA !width="40"|+/- !width="40"|Pts
|align=left| |3||3||0||0||95||10||+85||9
|align=left| |3||2||0||1||66||38||+28||7 |- |align=left| |3||1||0||2||29||83||−54||5 |- |align=left| |3||0||0||3||21||80||−59||3
Date Team 1 Score Team 2 2008-11-28 31 - 10 2008-11-28 28 - 7 2008-11-28 33 - 0 2008-11-28 38 - 0 2008-11-28 19 - 14 2008-11-28 31 - 0
Pool C {| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;" |- !width="200"|Team !width="40"|Pld !width="40"|W !width="40"|D !width="40"|L !width="40"|PF !width="40"|PA !width="40"|+/- !width="40"|Pts
|align=left| |3||3||0||0||71||26||+45||9
|align=left| |3||2||0||1||52||33||+19||7 |- |align=left| |3||1||0||2||35||53||−17||5 |- |align=left| |3||0||0||3||26||73||−47||3
Date Team 1 Score Team 2 2008-11-28 19 - 14 2008-11-28 26 - 7 2008-11-28 33 - 7 2008-11-28 21 - 7 2008-11-28 14 - 12 2008-11-28 19 - 5
Pool D {| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;" |- !width="200"|Team !width="40"|Pld !width="40"|W !width="40"|D !width="40"|L !width="40"|PF !width="40"|PA !width="40"|+/- !width="40"|Pts
|align=left| |3||3||0||0||83||22||+61||9
|align=left| |3||2||0||1||64||40||+24||7 |- |align=left| |3||1||0||2||29||55||−26||5 |- |align=left| |3||0||0||3||34||93||−59||3
Date Team 1 Score Team 2 2008-11-28 47 - 12 2008-11-28 31 - 7 2008-11-28 12 - 0 2008-11-28 24 - 10 2008-11-28 12 - 22 2008-11-28 5 - 28
Knockout
Shield
Bowl
Plate
Cup
Statistics
Individual points
Individual points Updated:2008-11-30 Pos. Player Country Points 1 Tomasi Cama 41 2 Ollie Phillips 39 3 Lavin Asego 36 4= Collins Injera 35 4= Mzwandile Stick 35 6 Lolo Lui 32 7 Pedro Leal 31 8 Tim Nanai-Williams 26 9= Robert Ebersohn 25 9= Rayno Benjamin 25
Individual tries
Individual tries Updated:2008-11-30 Pos. Player Country Tries 1 Collins Injera 7 2= Rayno Benjamin 5 2= Isoa Damu 5 2= Robert Ebersohn 5 2= David Mateus 5 6= Thomas Combezou 4 6= Apelu Fa'aiuga 4 6= Vereniki Goneva 4 6= Tim Mikkelson 4 6= Tim Nanai-Williams 4
Notes and references
External links IRB Sevens Dubai Sevens on irb.com