2020 New Zealand Women's Sevens Explained

Series:Women's Sevens Series VIII
Countries: New Zealand
Date:25-26 January 2020
Matches:28
Tries:157
Top Point Scorer: Michaela Blyde &<br /> Stacey Fluhler
(45 pts each)
Top Try Scorer: Michaela Blyde &<br /> Stacey Fluhler
(9 tries each)
Nextseason:2023

The 2020 New Zealand Women's Sevens was a tournament at the Waikato Stadium in Hamilton, New Zealand from 25-26 January 2020. It was the first edition of the New Zealand Women's Sevens for the World Rugby Women's Sevens Series and the fourth tournament of the 2019–20 World Rugby Women's Sevens Series.

Format

The teams were drawn into three pools of four teams each. Each team played every other team in their pool once. The top team from each pool and the best second-placed team advanced to the semifinals to playoff for berths in the cup final and third place match. The other teams from each group were paired off for the lower classification matches.

Teams

Twelve teams competed in the tournament with eleven being the core teams that compete throughout the entire season. The invited team for the tournament was .

Pool stage

Pool A

width=135 Teamwidth=25 abbr="Played" Pldwidth=25 abbr="Won" Wwidth=25 abbr="Drawn" Dwidth=25 abbr="Lost" Lwidth=32 abbr="Points for" PFwidth=32 abbr="Points against" PAwidth=32 abbr="Points difference" PDwidth=25 abbr="Points" Ptswidth=145Qualification
330011835+839Advance to semifinals
31025766-955th-place playoff
31025974-1557th-place playoff
31022483-5959th-place playoff

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Pool B

width=135 Teamwidth=25 abbr="Played" Pldwidth=25 abbr="Won" Wwidth=25 abbr="Drawn" Dwidth=25 abbr="Lost" Lwidth=32 abbr="Points for" PFwidth=32 abbr="Points against" PAwidth=32 abbr="Points difference" PDwidth=25 abbr="Points" Ptswidth=145Qualification
33008340+439Advance to semifinals
32016738+2975th-place playoff
31024873-2557th-place playoff
30033582-47311th-place playoff

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Pool C

width=135 Teamwidth=25 abbr="Played" Pldwidth=25 abbr="Won" Wwidth=25 abbr="Drawn" Dwidth=25 abbr="Lost" Lwidth=32 abbr="Points for" PFwidth=32 abbr="Points against" PAwidth=32 abbr="Points difference" PDwidth=25 abbr="Points" Ptswidth=145Qualification
33008031+499Advance to semifinals
32018535+507Advance to semifinals
31022673-4759th-place playoff
30032173-52311th-place playoff

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Placement matches

Fifth place

Knockout stage

Cup

See also

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