The 2018 Sydney Sevens was the third tournament within the 2017–18 World Rugby Sevens Series and the fifteenth edition of the Australia Sevens, of which the third to be held in Sydney. It was held over the weekend of 26–28 January 2018 at Allianz Stadium in Sydney, Australia.

Format The teams were drawn into four pools of four teams each, with each team playing every other team in their pool once. The top two teams from each pool advanced to the Cup/5th place brackets. The bottom two teams from each group went to the Challenge trophy/13th place brackets.

Teams Fifteen core teams are participating in the tournament along with one invited team, the highest-placing non-core team of the 2017 Oceania Sevens Championship, Papua New Guinea:

Pool stage All times in Australian Eastern Daylight Time (UTC+11:00)

Pool A TeamPldWDLPFPAPDPts33007422+529320110919+90731023174–435300312111–993

Pool B TeamPldWDLPFPAPDPts33005438+16932014833+15731025748+9530034585–403

Pool C TeamPldWDLPFPAPDPts330012112+109932016948+217310226102–76530032781–543

Pool D TeamPldWDLPFPAPDPts33007745+32932018557+28731028555+305300327119–923

Knockout stage

13th place

MatchesSemi-finals

13th Place Final

Challenge Trophy

MatchesQuarter-finals

Semi-finals

Challenge Trophy Final

5th place

MatchesSemi-finals

5th Place Final

Cup

MatchesQuarter-finals

Semi-finals

Bronze Medal Match

Cup Final

Tournament placings

PlaceTeam Points 22 19 17 4 15 5 13 6 12 7 10 10

PlaceTeam Points 9 810 7 11 5 5 13 314 2 15 1 1

Source: World Rugby

Players

Scoring leaders

+Tries scored Rank Player Tries 1 Perry Baker 9 2 Seabelo Senatla 8 3 Luke Morgan 7 Max McFarland 7 5 Ben O'Donnell 6

+Points scored Rank Player Points 1 Justin Geduld 56 2 Amenoni Nasilasila 45 Jean-Pascal Barraque 45 Perry Baker 45 5 Seabelo Senatla 40

Source: World Rugby

Dream Team The following seven players were selected to the tournament Dream Team at the conclusion of the tournament:

Forwards Backs Josua Vakurunabili Tim Anstee Ben Pinkelman Franco Sábato Lewis Holland Ben O'Donnell Seabelo Senatla

See also 2018 Sydney Women's Sevens

References

External links Tournament Page