| Series: | Sevens World Series XXI |
| Countries: | South Africa |
| Date: | 13–15 December 2019 |
| Trophy2: | Challenge Trophy |
| Matches: | 36 |
| Tries: | 225 |
| Top Point Scorer: | Jean-Pascal Barraque (54 points) |
| Top Try Scorer: | Jean-Pascal Barraque (6 tries) |
| Prevseason: | 2018 |
| Nextseason: | 2022 |
The 2019 South Africa Sevens was the second tournament within the 2019–20 World Rugby Sevens Series and the 21st South Africa Sevens tournament. It was held on 13–15 December 2019 at Cape Town Stadium in Cape Town, South Africa.[1] [2] [3]
Fiji, the United States and South Africa – three of the top four teams from the 2018–19 World Rugby Sevens Series – were all drawn into Pool A.
The 16 teams were drawn into four pools of four. Each team plays every other team in their pool once. The top two teams from each pool advance to the Cup playoffs and compete for gold, silver and bronze medals. The other teams from each pool go to the classification playoffs for 9th to 16th placings.
Fifteen core teams participated in the tournament along with one invited team, Japan.
All times in South African 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 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 96 | 29 | +67 | 9 | ||||||||||
| 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 96 | 47 | +49 | 7 | ||||||||||
| 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 71 | 49 | +22 | 5 | ||||||||||
| 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 145 | −138 | 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 | 95 | 26 | +69 | 9 | ||||||||||
| 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 92 | 40 | +52 | 7 | ||||||||||
| 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 43 | 80 | −37 | 5 | ||||||||||
| 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 21 | 105 | −84 | 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 | 97 | 38 | +59 | 9 | ||||||||||
| 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 67 | 67 | 0 | 7 | ||||||||||
| 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 69 | 66 | +3 | 5 | ||||||||||
| 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 33 | 95 | −62 | 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 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 78 | 59 | +19 | 8 | ||||||||||
| 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 60 | 50 | +10 | 8 | ||||||||||
| 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 52 | 52 | 0 | 5 | ||||||||||
| 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 47 | 76 | −29 | 3 | ||||||||||
| Place | Team | Points | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 22 | |||
| 19 | |||
| 17 | |||
| 4 | 15 | ||
| 5 | 13 | ||
| 6 | 12 | ||
| 7 | 11 | ||
| 8 | 10 |
| Place | Team | Points | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 8 | ||
| 10 | 7 | ||
| 11 | 6 | ||
| 12 | 5 | ||
| 13 | 4 | ||
| 14 | 3 | ||
| 15 | 2 | ||
| 16 | 1 |
Runners-up and host team South Africa contributed three players to the tournament Dream Team.