2019 Oceania Sevens Championship Explained

Countries: Fiji
Date:7–9 November 2019
Champions1: (4th title)
Matches:43
Prevseason:2018
Nextseason:2021

The 2019 Oceania Sevens Championship was the twelfth Oceania Sevens tournament in men's rugby sevens. It served as the regional qualifier for the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Sevens and was held at ANZ Stadium in Suva, Fiji on 7–9 November. A competition for deaf teams was also included as part of the 2019 Oceania Sevens.

Australia won the main men's tournament to claim their fourth Oceania Championship, defeating Fiji by 22–7 in the final. As the highest-placed side not already qualified, Australia also won the Oceania berth at the 2020 Olympic Sevens in Tokyo.

Samoa and Tonga finished fourth and fifth respectively and, as the second and third highest-placed sides not already qualified, won entry to the 2020 Final Olympic Qualifier.

Tonga and Papua New Guinea, as the two highest-placed sides without core status on the World Rugby Sevens Series, won entry to the 2020 Challenger Series for a chance to qualify for the 2020–21 World Sevens Series.

Teams

Fifteen national teams competed at the 2019 tournament, including an invited sevens development side from Japan:

Format

Teams were seeded into three pools of five.[1]

To allow a clear run for countries competing for qualification to the 2020 Olympic Sevens, the two Oceania nations already qualified, Fiji and New Zealand, were placed in Pool A together with the invited development side from Japan, New Caledonia (not Olympic eligible) and Niue. The remaining teams were seeded into Pool B and Pool C.

A playoff between the winners of Pool B and Pool C decided the Olympic qualifying berth.

Pool stage

Pool A (International)

TeamQualification
1440017515+16012Advance to title playoffs
243019845+5310Advance to title playoffs
3420212438+868Middle classification
4410317180–1636Lower classification
5400471434Fifteenth place

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Pool B (Olympic)

TeamQualification
144001567+14912Advance to title playoffs
243017750+2710Fifth place match
342024588–438bgcolor=#ffffcc Middle classification
441035088–386Middle classification
54004241194Lower classification

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Pool C (Olympic)

TeamQualification
144002017+19412Advance to title playoffs
243019744+5310Fifth place match
3420241116–758Middle classification
4410343119–766Lower classification
5400433129–964Lower classification

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Knockout stage

Title playoffs

Placings

PlaceTeamQualification
Direct qualification to the Olympic Sevens for 2020
4Entry to Olympic qualifier for 2020
5Entry to Olympic qualifier and World Challenger Series for 2020
6Entry to World Challenger Series for 2020
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15

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Legend
Light barAlready a core team in World Series and previously qualified to the Olympic Sevens for 2020
Dark barAlready a core team in World Series for 2020
Dotted barInvited team not eligible for qualification from Oceania

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Season fixture: 2019 Men's Sevens . Oceania Rugby . 4 November 2019 .