2018 Rugby World Cup Sevens – Women's tournament explained

Venue:	AT&T Park
Datefrom:	20
Dateto:	21 July 2018
Nations:	16
Matches:	32
Tries:	199
Most Tries:	Michaela Blyde (9)
Top Scorer:	Michaela Blyde (45)

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

See main article: 2018 Rugby World Cup Sevens qualifying – Women.

Africa	North America	South America	Asia	Europe	Oceania
Automatic qualification
2016–17 World Series
Regional Qualifiers

Squads

See main article: 2018 Rugby World Cup Sevens squads – Women.

Draw

The sixteen teams were seeded as follows:^[1]

• 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	Points total
1		116	12	18	146
2		100	20	20	140
3		98	14	16	128
4		66	16	14	96
5		62	18	6	86
6		60	10	12	82
7		66	2	3	71
8		37	6	4	47
9		34	4	8	46
10		19	8	10	37
11		New core team

2018 Hong Kong Women's Sevens seeding
Pos	Team	Round	Record
12		Winner	6–0
13		Final	4–2
14		Quarterfinal	2–2
15		Quarterfinal	1–3
16		Pool stage	0–3

Match officials

World Rugby announced a panel of nine match officials for the women's tournament.^[2]

• 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

Championship Cup

^[3]

Tournament placings

Place	Team
4
5
6
7
8

Place	Team
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16

Player scoring

+Tries scored
Rank	Player	Tries
align=center	1		align=center	9
align=center	2		align=center	7
align=center rowspan=2	3		align=center rowspan=2	6
Portia Woodman
align=center rowspan=3	5		align=center rowspan=3	5
Ellia Green
Bianca Silva

+Points scored
Rank	Player	Points
align=center	1		align=center	47
align=center	2		align=center	37
align=center	3		align=center	36
align=center	4		align=center	35
align=center	5		align=center	31

Source: World Rugby

See also

• 2018 Rugby World Cup Sevens – Men's tournament

Notes and References

1. Web site: Rugby World Cup Sevens 2018 qualification explained. World Rugby. 23 February 2018. 27 February 2018.
2. Match officials announced for landmark Rugby World Cup Sevens 2018. World Rugby. 23 April 2018. 24 April 2018.
3. Web site: Rugby World Cup Sevens 2018 - Tournament schedules. rwcsevens.com. World Rugby. 22 October 2017. 1 May 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180501184930/http://www.rwcsevens.com/schedule. dead.