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 2009 competition was held on December 4 and 5 at The Sevens. It was the first of eight events in the 2009–10 IRB Sevens World Series. New Zealand won the tournament with a 24–12 victory over Samoa in the final.
This was the second 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 2009-12-0428 - 14 2009-12-0447 - 7 2009-12-0436 - 7 2009-12-0414 - 7 2009-12-0450 - 0 2009-12-0429 - 0
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||2||1||0||88||24||64||8
|align=left| |3||2||1||0||90||38||52||8 |- |align=left| |3||0||1||2||36||88||-52||4 |- |align=left| |3||0||1||2||36||100||-64||4
Date Team 1 Score Team 2 2009-12-0447 - 12 2009-12-0440 - 5 2009-12-0431 - 14 2009-12-0436 - 7 2009-12-0417 - 17 2009-12-0412 - 12
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||95||22||73||9
|align=left| |3||2||0||1||67||58||9||7 |- |align=left| |3||1||0||2||19||66||-47||5 |- |align=left| |3||0||0||3||50||85||-35||3
Date Team 1 Score Team 2 2009-12-0440 - 12 2009-12-0426 - 5 2009-12-0428 - 0 2009-12-0431 - 26 2009-12-04 12 - 14 2009-12-0427 - 10
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||105||20||85||9
|align=left| |3||2||0||1||72||57||15||7 |- |align=left| |3||1||0||0||31||88||-57||5 |- |align=left| |3||0||0||3||36||79||-43||3
Date Team 1 Score Team 2 2009-12-0434 - 0 2009-12-0422 - 12 2009-12-0433 - 10 2009-12-0440 - 7 2009-12-0424 - 14 2009-12-0438 - 10
Knockout
Shield
Bowl
Plate
Cup
Statistics
Individual points
Individual Points Pos. Player Country Points 1 Lolo Lui 49 2 Ben Gollings 46 3 Clinton Sills 45 4 Sherwin Stowers 45 5 Vasily Artemyev 40 6 William Ryder 40 7 Mikaele Pesamino 40 8 Mzwandile Stick 40 9 Junior Tomasi Cama 38 10 Rayno Benjamin 35
Individual tries
Individual Tries Pos. Player Country Tries 1 Clinton Sills 9 2 Sherwin Stowers 9 3 Vasily Artemyev 8 4 Mikaele Pesamino 8 5 Rayno Benjamin 7 6 Alex Cuthbert 7 7 Nicolas Bruzzone 6 8 Collins Injera 6 9 Humphrey Kayange 6 10 Nick Edwards 5
Notes and references
External links IRB Sevens Dubai Sevens on irb.com