| Series: | Sevens World Series XXI |
| Countries: | New Zealand |
| Date: | 25–26 January 2020 |
| Matches: | 34 |
| Tries: | 197 |
| Top Point Scorer: | Scott Curry (30 pts) |
| Top Try Scorer: | Scott Curry (6 tries) |
| Prevseason: | 2019 |
| Nextseason: | 2021 |
The 2020 New Zealand Sevens was the third tournament within the 2019–20 World Rugby Sevens Series and the twenty first edition of the New Zealand Sevens. This event was the first in the series to only have one team from each pool qualify to the cup knockout phase. Host team won the tournament, defeating by 21–5 in the final.
The sixteen teams were drawn into four pools of four teams, with each team playing every other team in their pool once. The top team from each pool advanced to the semifinals to playoff for berths in the cup final and third place match.[1]
The teams that finished second in their respective pool will play another team from another pool whom finished second, however, it will be ranked as the best second placed team v. the second best second placed team and vice versa. This is the first tournament of the 2019–20 season that the format was changed to a four team cup knockout phase.[2]
The pools and schedule were announced by World Rugby on 20 December 2019.[3]
All times in NZL Standard Time
| width=135 | 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 | width=145 | Qualification |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 111 | 17 | +94 | 9 | Advance to semifinals | |||||||||||
| 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 71 | 33 | +38 | 7 | 5th-place playoff | |||||||||||
| 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 43 | 81 | –38 | 5 | 11th-place playoff | |||||||||||
| 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 19 | 113 | –94 | 3 | 15th-place playoff |
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| width=135 | 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 | width=145 | Qualification |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 71 | 45 | +26 | 9 | Advance to semifinals | |||||||||||
| 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 67 | 50 | +17 | 6 | 7th-place playoff | |||||||||||
| 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 64 | 62 | +2 | 5 | 9th-place playoff | |||||||||||
| 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 24 | 69 | –45 | 4 | 13th-place playoff |
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| width=135 | 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 | width=145 | Qualification |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 50 | 36 | +14 | 8 | Advance to semifinals | |||||||||||
| 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 59 | 47 | +12 | 8 | 5th-place playoff | |||||||||||
| 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 56 | 60 | -4 | 5 | 11th-place playoff | |||||||||||
| 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 48 | 70 | –22 | 3 | 13th-place playoff |
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| width=135 | 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 | width=145 | Qualification |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 83 | 45 | +38 | 7 | Advance to semifinals | |||||||||||
| 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 73 | 48 | +25 | 7 | 7th-place playoff | |||||||||||
| 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 48 | 50 | -2 | 7 | 9th-place playoff | |||||||||||
| 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 31 | 92 | -61 | 3 | 15th-place playoff |
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| 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 |