2016–17 World Rugby Sevens Series

The 2016–17 World Rugby Sevens Series, known for sponsorship reasons as the HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series, was the 18th annual series of rugby sevens tournaments for national rugby sevens teams. The Sevens Series has been run by World Rugby since 1999–2000. South Africa won the Series with a comfortable 28-point margin over England; South Africa won five of the ten tournaments.

The 2016–17 Series also served as a qualifying tournament for the 2018 Rugby World Cup Sevens. Nine of the core teams had already qualified but the four highest-placed finishers from among the remaining six core teams also gained qualification for the 2018 RWC Sevens.

Core teams

Tour venues The official schedule for the 2016–17 World Rugby Sevens Series was as follows:

+ 2016–17 Venues Leg Stadium City Date Winner Dubai The Sevens Dubai 2–3 December 2016 South Africa Cape Town Stadium Cape Town 10–11 December 2016 New Zealand Wellington Regional Stadium Wellington 28–29 January 2017 Australia Sydney Football Stadium Sydney 4–5 February 2017 United States Sam Boyd Stadium Las Vegas 3–5 March 2017 Canada BC Place Vancouver 11–12 March 2017 Hong Kong Hong Kong Stadium Hong Kong 7–9 April 2017 Singapore National Stadium Singapore 15–16 April 2017 France Stade Jean-Bouin Paris 13–14 May 2017 England Twickenham Stadium London 20–21 May 2017

There were no major changes to the schedule.

Standings

The final standings after completion of the ten tournaments of the series are shown in the table below.

The points awarded to teams at each tournament, as well as the overall season totals, are shown. Gold indicates the event champions. Silver indicates the event runner-ups. Bronze indicates the event third place finishers. A dash (–) is recorded in the event column if a team did not compete at a tournament.

Final table: + 2016–17 World Rugby Sevens – Series XVIII Pos. Dubai Cape Town Wellington Sydney Las Vegas Vancouver Hong Kong Singapore Paris London Pointstotal Pointsdifference1 2219 22222219 19 12 22 13 1928312 17 22 10 19 1322 10 17 15 19 1644523 19 13 19 13 1917 22 10 10 8 1507034 10 17 12 17 15 13 13 13 17 10 1373645 8 10 5 12 17 15 15 19 13 15 1293356 13 5 7 15 12 10 17 15 7 12 1131887 12 15 17 1 5 3 8 7 19 22109568 3 3 15 3 10 10 10 22 5 17 98–119 5 7 13 10 10 12 12 3 8 10 904310 15 10 5 10 3 8 2 8 5 7 73–6011 10 8 10 7 5 1 5 5 10 5 66–11712 5 12 8 2 8 5 7 10 1 5 63–6213 7 1 3 5 7 7 1 5 12 3 51–8914 1 5 2 8 1 1 5 2 2 2 29–61015 1 1 1 5 2 2 3 1 3 1 2087816 – – – – 1 5 – – – – 6–146 17 2 2 – – – – – – – – 4–20518 – – 1 1 – – – – – – 2–24619 – – – – – – – – 1 1 2 –25820 – – – – – – – 1 – – 1 –10421 – – – – – – 1 – – – 1–186

Source: World Rugby. Archived

{| class="wikitable" style="font-size:92%;" |- !colspan=2| Legend |- style="line-height:18px; font-size:90%;" |colspan=2 align=center |Event Medalists |- |bgcolor=#FFD700|Gold |Event Champions |- |bgcolor=#C0C0C0|Silver |Event Runner-ups |- |bgcolor=#CD7F32|Bronze |Event Third place finishers |- |- style="line-height:18px; font-size:90%;" |colspan=2 align=center |Qualification for the 2017–18 World Rugby Sevens Series |- |No colour |Core team in 2016–17 and re-qualified as a core team for the 2017–18 World Rugby Sevens Series |- |bgcolor=#fcc|Pink |Relegated as the lowest placed core team at the end of the 2016–17 season |- |bgcolor=#ffc|Yellow |Not a core team |- style="line-height:18px; font-size:90%;" |colspan=2 align=center |Qualification for 2018 Rugby World Cup Sevens |- |colspan=2 style="border-left:3px solid #06f;"| Already confirmed for 2018 (host country United States and 2013 quarterfinalists) |- |colspan=2 style="border-left:3px solid #7cf;"| Qualified as one of the four highest placed eligible teams from the 2016–17 World Rugby Sevens Series not already qualified.Rugby World Cup Sevens 2018 qualification process . World Rugby.

Players

Scoring leaders

+Tries scored Rank Player Tries 1 Perry Baker 57 2 Dan Norton 51 3 Justin Douglas 40 4 Seabelo Senatla 32 5 James Fleming 32

+Points scored Rank Player Points 1 Perry Baker 285 2 Ethan Davies 281 3 Madison Hughes 279 4 Nathan Hirayama 269 5 Scott Wight 266

Updated: 22 May 2017

Dream Team

Forwards Backs Chris Dry Kalione Nasoko Danny Barrett Jerry Tuwai Rosko Specman Dan Norton Perry Baker

Placings summary Tallies of top four tournament placings during the 2016–17 series, by team:

CupTeam Gold Silver BronzeFourthTotal 5 3 - - 8 2 2 2 1 7 1 3 1 - 5 1 1 1 1 4 1 - 1 1 3 - 1 1 3 5 - - 3 1 4 - - 1 2 3 - - - 1 1Totals 10 10 10 10

Tournaments In this series, World Rugby abolished the minor trophies of Plate, Bowl and Shield that were previously awarded in the finals play-offs at each tournament. While the winner's Cup was retained as the major trophy, the awarding of gold, silver and bronze medals to players from the three top-placed teams was introduced for this series with the third-placed match now renamed as the bronze-medal match. A Challenge Trophy was established for teams competing in the lower bracket of the finals play-offs at each tournament. Additionally, the playing time for Cup final matches was reduced from 20 minutes to 14 minutes, in line with all other tournament matches.

Dubai

EventWinnersScoreFinalistsSemi-finalistsCup 26–14 (Bronze)5th Place19–12Challenge Trophy28–1413th Place20–17

Cape Town

EventWinnersScoreFinalistsSemi-finalistsCup 19–17 (Bronze)5th Place33–21Challenge Trophy19–713th Place19–10

Wellington

EventWinnersScoreFinalistsSemi-finalistsCup 26–5 (Bronze)5th Place17–12Challenge Trophy19–1713th Place19–12

Sydney

EventWinnersScoreFinalistsSemi-finalistsCup 29–14 (Bronze)5th Place35–12Challenge Trophy26–013th Place10–5

Las Vegas

EventWinnersScoreFinalistsSemi-finalistsCup 19–12 (Bronze)5th Place10–7Challenge Trophy21–1413th Place21–19

Vancouver

EventWinnersScoreFinalistsSemi-finalistsCup 19–7 (Bronze)5th Place17–14Challenge Trophy19–1213th Place24–19

Hong Kong

EventWinnersScoreFinalistsSemi-finalistsCup 22–0 (Bronze)5th Place10–7Challenge Trophy21–1913th Place28–21World Series Qualifier12–7

Singapore

EventWinnersScoreFinalistsSemi-finalistsCup 26–19 (Bronze)5th Place17–12Challenge Trophy24–1213th Place40–19

Paris

EventWinnersScoreFinalistsSemi-finalistsCup 15–5 (Bronze)5th Place24–19Challenge Trophy33–1213th Place19–10

London

EventWinnersScoreFinalistsSemi-finalistsCup 12–7 (Bronze) 5th Place 28–17Challenge Trophy26–1413th Place24–19

See also

2016–17 World Rugby Women's Sevens Series

References

External links Official Site