2017–18 World Rugby Sevens Series

The 2017–18 World Rugby Sevens Series, known for sponsorship reasons as the HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series, was the 19th annual series of rugby sevens tournaments for national men's rugby sevens teams. The Sevens Series has been run by World Rugby since 1999–2000.

Core teams

Tour venues The official schedule for the 2017–18 World Rugby Sevens Series was as follows:

+ 2017–18 VenuesLegStadiumCity DatesWinner Dubai The Sevens Dubai 1–2 December 2017 South Africa Cape Town Stadium Cape Town 9–10 December 2017 Australia Allianz Stadium Sydney 26–28 January 2018 New Zealand FMG Stadium Waikato Hamilton 3–4 February 2018 United States Sam Boyd Stadium Las Vegas 2–4 March 2018 Canada BC Place Vancouver 10–11 March 2018 Hong Kong Hong Kong Stadium Hong Kong 6–8 April 2018 Singapore National Stadium Singapore 28–29 April 2018 England Twickenham Stadium London 2–3 June 2018 France Stade Jean-Bouin Paris 8–10 June 2018

There were several significant changes to the schedule: The New Zealand event moved from Wellington, which had hosted an event in every previous season of the series, to Hamilton. The Australia and New Zealand events will swap places in the tournament order. The schedule includes a break for the 2018 Commonwealth Games, which will hold its sevens tournament on 14–15 April at Gold Coast. The Paris and London Sevens, which swapped places in the season order, will take place several weeks later than usual in order to provide more rest for players, many of whom will have been involved in the Commonwealth Games.

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.

Official standings for the 2017–18 series: + 2017–18 World Rugby Sevens – Series XIXPos. DubaiCape TownSydneyHamiltonLas VegasVancouverHong KongSingaporeLondonParisPointstotalPointsdifference 1 22 17 19 19 15 17 17 15 19 22 182811 2 15 13 12 22 17 22 22 22 22 13 180819 3 19 22 13 15 13 10 15 13 13 17 150520 4 13 8 22 17 12 12 5 19 10 5 123344 5 17 10 10 10 10 13 1 17 15 19 122344 6 1 12 15 8 22 15 12 8 12 12 117333 7 5 19 17 7 19 10 13 2 5 8 105308 8 10 3 10 12 10 19 19 10 8 3 104–111 9 5 15 3 5 7 2 7 7 10 15 76168 10 12 5 5 13 3 3 2 12 3 1 59–149 11 7 7 1 1 2 7 10 10 1 10 56–517 12 10 1 2 10 5 8 10 5 2 2 55–55 13 8 10 8 3 8 1 8 1 1 5 53–215 14 3 5 7 2 5 5 3 5 7 7 49–32215 – – – – – – – – 17 10 27–4216 1 1 5 1 1 5 5 1 5 1 26–88617 – – 1 5 – – – – – – 618 2 2 – – – – – – – – 419 – – – – – – – 3 – – 320 – – – – 1 1 – – – – 221 – – – – – – 1 – – – 1

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 2018–19 World Rugby Sevens Series |- |No colour |Core team in 2017–18 and re-qualified as a core team for the 2018–19 World Rugby Sevens Series |- |bgcolor=#fcc|Pink |Relegated as the lowest placed core team at the end of the 2017–18 season |- |bgcolor=#ffc|Yellow |Not a core team

Placings summary Tallies of top four tournament placings during the 2017–18 series, by team:

TeamGold Silver BronzeFourthTotal 5 – 1 1 7 2 3 3 2 10 1 1 1 2 5 1 1 1 – 3 1 – – 2 3 – 2 1 – 3 – 2 – – 2 – 1 2 1 4 – – 1 – 1 – – – 2 2Totals 10 10 10 10

Players

Scoring leaders

+ Tries scoredPlayerTries1 492 443 384 37 6 35 8 329 3110 28 Updated: 10 June 2018

+ Points scoredPlayerPoints1 3342 3163 2634 2475 2206 2117 1978 190 10 187 Updated: 10 June 2018

Awards

+Impact player by tournamentTour LegPlayerPoints Dubai 50Cape Town 60Sydney 58Hamilton 49Las Vegas 52Vancouver 61Hong Kong 53Singapore Ben O'Donnell54London 46Paris Robbie Fergusson50

+Total impact player pointsPlayer Total1 10547291733862 19147261843483 13245331203304 12654291193285 10125141713116 11330171322927 7635431372918 7937281352799 65473311826310 853321122261

Updated: 5 June 2018

+Player of the final awardTour LegWinner Dubai Cape Town Sydney Hamilton Las Vegas Vancouver Hong Kong Singapore London Paris Updated: 5 June 2018

Tournaments

Dubai

EventWinnersScoreFinalistsSemi-finalistsCup24–12 (Bronze)5th Place22–17Challenge Trophy21–1213th Place26–7

Cape Town

EventWinnersScoreFinalistsSemi-finalistsCup38–14 (Bronze)5th Place26–12Challenge Trophy26–713th Place24–14

Sydney

EventWinnersScoreFinalistsSemi-finalistsCup29–0 (Bronze)5th Place31–7Challenge Trophy29–1213th Place14–12

Hamilton

EventWinnersScoreFinalistsSemi-finalistsCup24–17 (Bronze)5th Place19–15Challenge Trophy31–1213th Place19–17

Las Vegas

EventWinnersScoreFinalistsSemi-finalistsCup28–0 (Bronze)5th Place17–12(a.e.t.)Challenge Trophy26–1913th Place28–7

Vancouver

EventWinnersScoreFinalistsSemi-finalistsCup31–12 (Bronze)5th Place31–14Challenge Trophy29–513th Place21–10

Hong Kong

EventWinnersScoreFinalistsSemi-finalistsCup24–12 (Bronze)5th Place14–12Challenge Trophy33–713th Place33–5World Series Qualifier19–14

Singapore

EventWinnersScoreFinalistsSemi-finalistsCup28–22 (Bronze)5th Place36–17Challenge Trophy26–1213th Place31–24

London

EventWinnersScoreFinalistsSemi-finalistsCup21-17 (Bronze)5th Place26-5Challenge Trophy33-1913th Place34-10

Paris

EventWinnersScoreFinalistsSemi-finalistsCup24–14(Bronze)5th Place28–7Challenge Trophy33–2613th Place21–20

See also

2017–18 World Rugby Women's Sevens Series

References

External links Official Site