| Series: | Sevens World Series XX |
| Countries: | United Arab Emirates |
| Date: | 30 November–1 December 2018 |
| Trophy2: | Challenge Trophy |
| Matches: | 45 |
| Tries: | 278 |
| Top Point Scorer: | John Porch (54) |
| Top Try Scorer: | Marcos Moroni (7) |
| Prevseason: | 2017 |
| Nextseason: | 2019 |
The 2018 Dubai Sevens is the twentieth edition of the Dubai Sevens tournament. It was the first tournament within the 2018–19 World Rugby Sevens Series. It was held on 30 November and 1 December 2018 at The Sevens Stadium in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.[1]
The sixteen teams were drawn into four pools of four teams each. Every team played each of the other three in their pool once. The top two teams from each pool advanced to the Cup bracket where teams competed for the gold, silver, and bronze medals. The bottom two teams from each group went to the Challenge Trophy bracket.
Fifteen core teams are participating in the tournament along with one invited team, 2018 Africa Men's Sevens winners Zimbabwe:
All times in UAE Standard Time
| width=175 | Team | width=25 abbr="Played" | Pld | width=25 abbr="Won" | W | width=25 abbr="Drawn" | D | width=25 abbr="Lost" | L | width=32 abbr="Points for" | PF | width=32 abbr="Points against" | PA | width=32 abbr="Points difference" | PD | width=25 abbr="Points" | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 62 | 29 | 33 | 7 | ||||||||||
| 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 58 | 52 | 6 | 7 | ||||||||||
| 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 50 | 53 | −3 | 7 | ||||||||||
| 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 34 | 70 | −36 | 3 |
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| width=175 | Team | width=25 abbr="Played" | Pld | width=25 abbr="Won" | W | width=25 abbr="Drawn" | D | width=25 abbr="Lost" | L | width=32 abbr="Points for" | PF | width=32 abbr="Points against" | PA | width=32 abbr="Points difference" | PD | width=25 abbr="Points" | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 105 | 31 | 74 | 9 | ||||||||||
| 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 68 | 49 | 19 | 6 | ||||||||||
| 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 35 | 72 | −37 | 6 | ||||||||||
| 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 43 | 99 | −56 | 3 |
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| width=175 | Team | width=25 abbr="Played" | Pld | width=25 abbr="Won" | W | width=25 abbr="Drawn" | D | width=25 abbr="Lost" | L | width=32 abbr="Points for" | PF | width=32 abbr="Points against" | PA | width=32 abbr="Points difference" | PD | width=25 abbr="Points" | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 80 | 31 | 49 | 9 | ||||||||||
| 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 69 | 36 | 33 | 7 | ||||||||||
| 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 52 | 64 | −12 | 5 | ||||||||||
| 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 26 | 96 | −70 | 3 |
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| width=175 | Team | width=25 abbr="Played" | Pld | width=25 abbr="Won" | W | width=25 abbr="Drawn" | D | width=25 abbr="Lost" | L | width=32 abbr="Points for" | PF | width=32 abbr="Points against" | PA | width=32 abbr="Points difference" | PD | width=25 abbr="Points" | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 96 | 38 | 58 | 9 | ||||||||||
| 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 76 | 41 | 35 | 7 | ||||||||||
| 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 58 | 64 | −6 | 5 | ||||||||||
| 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 14 | 101 | –87 | 3 |
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| Place | Team | Points |
|---|---|---|
| 22 | ||
| 19 | ||
| 17 | ||
| 4 | 15 | |
| 5 | 13 | |
| 6 | 12 | |
| 7 | 10 | |
| 10 |
| Place | Team | Points |
|---|---|---|
| 9 | 8 | |
| 10 | 7 | |
| 11 | 5 | |
| 5 | ||
| 13 | 3 | |
| 14 | 2 | |
| 15 | 1 | |
| 1 |
| +Tries scored | ||||
| Rank | Player | Tries | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| align=center | 1 | align=center | 7 | |
| align=center rowspan=4 | 2 | align=center rowspan=5 | 6 | |
| John Porch | ||||
| Muller Du Plessis | ||||
| Perry Baker | ||||
| +Points scored | ||||
| Rank | Player | Points | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| align=center | 1 | align=center | 54 | |
| align=center | 2 | align=center | 52 | |
| align=center | 3 | align=center | 41 | |
| align=center | 4 | align=center | 35 | |
| align=center | 5 | align=center | 32 | |