The women's tournament in the 2018 Rugby World Cup Sevens was held at AT&T Park in San Francisco alongside the men's tournament in which the teams competed for the Women's Rugby Sevens World Cup.
Format Unlike previous editions, the tournament was played for the first time in a knock-out only format. Teams in the Championship Cup competed for the Women's Rugby Sevens World Cup trophy and bronze medals. Losing teams in the Championship Cup Quarter-finals competed for 5th Place. Losing teams in the Championship Cup Round of 16 (first round) competed for the Challenge Trophy and 13th Place. All teams played four matches.
Teams
AfricaNorth AmericaSouth AmericaAsiaEuropeOceania Automatic qualification 2016–17 World Series Regional Qualifiers
Squads
Draw The sixteen teams were seeded as follows: The ten core teams of the 2016–17 World Rugby Women's Sevens Series and the 2017–18 World Rugby Women's Sevens Series were seeded according to their accumulated scores from the former series alongside the 2017 Dubai Women's Sevens and 2018 Sydney Women's Sevens. Through becoming a 2017–18 core team, Japan was seeded 11th. The remaining five were determined through the teams' ranking performance in the 2018 Hong Kong Women's Sevens.
2017–18 Core Team Seeding Pos 2016–17 Dubai Sydney Pointstotal1 116 12 18 1462 100 20 20 1403 98 14 16 1284 66 16 14 965 62 18 6 866 60 10 12 827 66 2 3 718 37 6 4 479 34 4 8 4610 19 8 10 3711New core team
2018 Hong Kong Women's Sevens seeding PosTeamRoundRecord12Winner6–013Final4–214Quarterfinal2–215Quarterfinal1–316Pool stage0–3
Match officials World Rugby announced a panel of nine match officials for the women's tournament.
Alhambra Nievas (Spain) Joy Neville (Ireland) Sara Cox (England) Adam Jones (Wales) Ben Crouse (South Africa)
Sakurako Kawasaki (Japan) Hollie Davidson (Scotland) Rebecca Mahoney (New Zealand) Beatrice Benvenuti (Italy)
Tournament 13th Place
MatchesSemi-finals
15th Place
13th Place Final
Challenge Trophy
MatchesQuarter-finals
Semi-finals
11th Place
Challenge Trophy Final
5th Place
MatchesSemi-finals
7th Place
5th Place Final
Championship Cup
MatchesRound of 16
Quarter-finals
Semi-finals
Bronze Medal Match
Championship Cup Final
Tournament placings
PlaceTeam 4 5 6 7 8
PlaceTeam 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
Player scoring
+Tries scored Rank Player Tries 1 Michaela Blyde 9 2 Naya Tapper 7 3 Evania Pelite 6 Portia Woodman 5 Raijieli Daveua 5 Ellia Green Bianca Silva
+Points scored Rank Player Points 1 Michaela Blyde 47 2 Tyla Nathan-Wong 37 3 Holly Aitchison 36 4 Naya Tapper 35 5 Ghislaine Landry 31
Source: World Rugby
See also 2018 Rugby World Cup Sevens – Men's tournament
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