William Chak and Toby Chan promoting the Hong Kong Sevens Rugby.
The 2014 Hong Kong Sevens was the 39th edition of the Hong Kong Sevens and the seventh tournament of the 2013–2014 Sevens World Series . It took place at its long-time home, Hong Kong Stadium .
The Cup title was claimed by New Zealand , with South Africa , Scotland and Kenya respectively claiming the lower-level Plate, Bowl and Shield. Japan won the World Series Core Team Qualifier to earn promotion to "core" status for the 2014–15 series.
Format [ ]
The teams were drawn into four pools of four teams each. Each team played all others in their pool once. The top two teams from each pool advanced to the Cup/Plate brackets. The bottom two teams from each group entered the Bowl/Shield brackets.
Teams [ ]
28 teams were scheduled to participate—16 in the main draw, and 12 in the Core Team Qualifier.
Main draw [ ]
World Series core team qualifier [ ]
Main draw [ ]
The draw was made on 23 March.[4]
Key to colours in group tables
Teams that advanced to the Cup quarterfinal
Pool stage [ ]
Pool A [ ]
Teams
Pld
W
D
L
PF
PA
+/−
Pts
Fiji
3
3
0
0
141
12
+129
9
Wales
3
2
0
1
64
61
+3
7
Kenya
3
1
0
2
53
53
+0
5
Sri Lanka
3
0
0
3
12
144
−132
3
Pool B [ ]
Pool C [ ]
Pool D [ ]
Knockout stage [ ]
Shield [ ]
Bowl [ ]
Plate [ ]
Cup [ ]
World Series Qualifier [ ]
The draw was made on 23 March.[23]
Key to colours in group tables
Teams that advance to the Qualifier quarterfinal
Pool stage [ ]
Pool E [ ]
Teams
Pld
W
D
L
PF
PA
+/−
Pts
Zimbabwe
3
3
0
0
82
24
+58
9
Russia
3
2
0
1
69
41
+28
7
Chile
3
1
0
2
60
38
+22
5
Barbados
3
0
0
3
15
123
−108
3
Pool F [ ]
Pool G [ ]
Ranking matches [ ]
References [ ]
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External links [ ]
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