2018–19 World Rugby Women's Sevens Series

The 2018–19 World Rugby Women's Sevens Series was the seventh edition of the global circuit for women's national rugby sevens teams, organised by World Rugby. Six tournament events were scheduled on the 2018–19 circuit with twelve teams competing in each tournament. The series also, for the second time, doubled as an Olympic qualifier.

The series was won by who won four tour events on their way to claiming their fifth World Series title.

Format Twelve teams compete at each event. The top-ranked teams at each tournament play off for a Cup, with gold, silver and bronze medals also awarded to the first three teams. Lower-ranked teams at each tournament play off for a Challenge Trophy. The overall winner of the series was determined by points gained from the standings across all events in the season.

Teams The "core teams" qualified to participate in all series events for the 2018–19 series were:

One additional core team qualified through winning the 2018 Hong Kong Women's Sevens:

The twelfth team in each tournament is allocated based on performance in the respective continental competitions within Africa, Asia, Europe, Oceania, and the Americas.

Tour venues There were six tournaments in 2018–19:

+ 2018–19 ItineraryLegStadiumCity DatesWinner United States Infinity Park Glendale (Denver)20–21 October 2018 Dubai The Sevens Dubai29–30 November 2018 Australia Spotless Stadium Sydney 1–3 February 2019 JapanMikuni World Stadium Kitakyushu 20–21 April 2019 Canada Westhills Stadium Langford (Victoria) 11–12 May 2019 France Parc des Sports Aguiléra Biarritz 15–16 June 2019

Standings

Final standings for the 2018–19 series: + 2018–19 World Rugby Women's – Series VII Pos. Glendale Dubai Sydney Kitakyushu Langford Biarritz PointstotalPointsdifference120 20 20 12 20 18 110673218 14 16 16 16 20 100225316 18 12 20 12 16 943004 12 16 18 10 18 12 863905 14 8 10 14 14 10 701636 6 10 3 18 10 3 50677 8 12 8 6 8 6 48–768 10 6 14 8 2 1 41–969 4 3 6 3 6 14 36–24110 3 2 4 4 4 4 21–16211 2 4 2 2 3 8 21–40712 – – – – – 2 2–6213 – – – 1 – – 1–8214 – 1 – – – – 1–9215 – – – – 1 – 1–14816 – – 1 – – – 1–20217 1 – – – – – 1–250 Source: World Rugby

{| class="wikitable" style="font-size:92%;" |- |- 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 2019–20 World Rugby Women's Sevens Series |- | No colour |Core team in 2018–19 and re-qualified as a core team for the 2019–20 |- |bgcolor=#fcc|Pink ||Relegated as the lowest placed core team at the end of the 2018–19 series |- |bgcolor=#ffc|Yellow |Invitational team |- style="line-height:18px; font-size:90%;" |colspan=2 align=center |Qualification for the 2020 Olympic Sevens |- |colspan=2 style="border-left:3px solid #7cf;"| Automatically qualified (host country Japan) |- |colspan=2 style="border-left:3px solid #06f;"| Qualified to the 2020 Olympic Sevens as one of the four highest placed eligible teams from the 2018–19 series.

Placings summary Tallies of top four tournament placings during the 2018–19 series, by team:

Team Gold Silver BronzeFourthTotal 1 1 3 1 6 4 1 – – 5 1 1 2 – 4 – 2 1 – 3 – – – 3 3 – 1 – – 1 – – – 1 1 – – – 1 1Totals 6 6 6 6 24

Tournaments

Glendale

EventWinnersScoreFinalistsSemifinalistsCup33–7 (Bronze)5th Place21–19 (7th)Challenge Trophy20–14 (11th)

Dubai

EventWinnersScoreFinalistsSemifinalistsCup26–14 (Bronze)5th Place12–7 (7th)Challenge Trophy12–7 (11th)

Sydney

EventWinnersScoreFinalistsSemifinalistsCup34–10 (Bronze)5th Place19–17 (7th)Challenge Trophy15–12 (11th)

Kitakyushu

EventWinnersScoreFinalistsSemifinalistsCup7–5 (Bronze)5th Place34–26 (7th)Challenge Trophy41–12 (11th)

Langford

EventWinnersScoreFinalistsSemifinalistsCup21-17 (bronze)5th Place31-7 (7th)Challenge Trophy26-19 (11th)

Biarritz

EventWinnersScoreFinalistsSemifinalistsCup26-10 (bronze)5th Place24-10 (7th)Challenge Trophy27-10 (11th)

Players

Scoring leaders

+Tries scored Rank Player Tries 1 Amee-Leigh Murphy-Crowe 35 2 Bianca Farella 34 3 Michaela Blyde 30 4 Ellia Green 27 5 Anne-Cécile Ciofani 21

+Points scored Rank Player Points 1 Tyla Nathan-Wong 207 2 Ghislaine Landry 202 3 Amee-Leigh Murphy-Crowe 175 4 Bianca Farella 170 5 Michaela Blyde 150

Updated: 16 June 2019

Awards

+Impact player awards Tour Leg Player PointsGlendale 57Dubai 53Sydney 57Kitakyushu 66Langford 48Paris 52

+Total impact player pointsPlayer Total1 7432261272592 7921231162393--> 6037171252394 742261322345 5221111442286 --> 6921161122287 7912161182258 5814231142099 6131810820810 382824111201

Updated: 16 June 2019

2018–19 World Rugby Women's Sevens Series

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