2018 Rugby World Cup Sevens qualifying – Women

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This is the qualifications of the 2018 Rugby World Cup Sevens – Women's tournament aimed at selecting women's Rugby sevens national teams that appeared in the finals in San Francisco. A total of 52 nations took part in the qualifying process.

General[]

The tournament is organized by World Rugby to be held on 20–22 July 2018, with sixteen teams in attendance. Automatic qualification is extended the semi-finalists of the previous World Cup (of which host United States is one). Four other bids were determined by placement in the 2016-17 World Rugby Women's Sevens Series, with the remainder decided in each of the six regions' respective tournaments.[1]

Qualified teams[]

Africa North America South America Asia Europe Oceania
Automatic qualification
 Canada
 United States 		 Spain  New Zealand
2016–17 World Series
 France
 Russia 		 Australia
 Fiji
Regional Qualifiers
 South Africa  Mexico  Brazil  China
 Japan 		 England
 Ireland 		 Papua New Guinea

Qualifying[]

Legend
Qualified to 2018 Rugby World Cup Sevens
Already qualified

Africa[]

Main article: 2017 Women's Africa Cup Sevens

The tournament was held 16–17 September 2017 in Monastir, Tunisia,[2] with South Africa beating Kenya 17–12 to obtain the one allotted Africa slot for the World Cup.

Rank Team
1st place, gold medalist(s)  South Africa
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  Kenya
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  Tunisia
4  Uganda
5  
6  
7  
8  

Americas North[]

Main article: 2017 RAN Women's Sevens

The qualifying Tournament, which is also Rugby Americas North Women's Sevens, took place at the Campo Marte in Mexico City, 25–26 November 2017.[3] With Mexico having the best record, it will make its first World Cup appearance.

Rank Team
1st place, gold medalist(s)  Mexico
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  
4  
5  
6  
7  

South America[]

The 2017 Torneo Valentín Martínez served as the South American qualifier, with the winner heading to the World Cup. It was held at Carrasco Polo Club in Montevideo, Uruguay on November 10-11.[4]

Rank Team Pld W D L PF PA +/− Pts
1st place, gold medalist(s)  Brazil 6 6 0 0 240 17 +223 18
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  Argentina 6 5 0 1 197 32 +167 16
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)   6 4 0 2 75 104 −29 14
4   6 3 0 3 131 89 +42 12
5   6 2 0 4 62 118 −56 10
6   6 1 0 5 31 200 −169 8
7   6 0 0 6 10 188 −178 6

The format was a round robin tournament. All matches in Uruguay Standard Time (UTC−03:00)[5]

Asia[]

Main article: 2017 Asia Rugby Women's Sevens Series

From 23–24 September and 14–15 October, eight teams competed in Incheon and Colombo for two world cup slots.[6]

Rank Team Korea Sri Lanka Points
1st place, gold medalist(s)  Japan 12 12 24
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  China 10 10 20
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  Kazakhstan 8 8 16
4  Hong Kong 7 5 12
5  Thailand 4 7 11
6  Sri Lanka 5 4 9
7  Singapore 2 2 4
8  South Korea 1 1 2

Europe[]

Main article: 2017 Rugby Europe Women's Sevens Championships § Grand Prix

Twelve teams competed at the Rugby Europe Women's Sevens Grand Prix at 17–18 June 2017 in Malemort, France, then 8–9 July in Kazan, Russia.[7]

Rank Team Malemort Kazan Points
1st place, gold medalist(s)  Russia 20 20 40
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  Ireland 16 16 32
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  France 18 14 32
4  England 14 18 32
5  Wales 10 12 22
6  Spain 12 3 15
7  Belgium 6 8 14
8  Poland 3 10 13
9  Italy 8 1 9
10  Portugal 2 6 8
11  Sweden 4 2 6
12  Netherlands 1 4 5

Oceania[]

Main article: 2017 Oceania Women's Sevens Championship

Eight teams competed in Suva, Fiji on 10-11 November 2017, with Australia, Fiji and New Zealand already qualified.[8] Papua New Guinea, as the highest-ranked team not yet qualified, was eligible.

Rank Team
1st place, gold medalist(s)  New Zealand
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  Australia
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  Fiji
4  Papua New Guinea
5  Cook Islands
 Samoa
7  Tahiti
 Tonga

References[]

  1. ^ "Rugby World Cup Sevens 2018 Qualification Process". rwcsevens.com. Retrieved 12 June 2017.
  2. ^ "Schedule of the competitions 2017". 19 January 2017.
  3. ^ "Mexico City to Host 2017 Rugby Americas North Sevens Tournament - Rugby Americas North". rugbyamericasnorth.com. 22 May 2017. Retrieved 16 June 2017.
  4. ^ El pasaje femenino a RWC 7s 2018 en juego en Montevideo Archived 2017-07-07 at the Wayback Machine - Sudamérica Rugby, 6 July 2017
  5. ^ "#SudaméricaRugby7s: Fixture del Seven Femenino" (in Spanish). Sudamérica Rugby. 30 October 2017. Archived from the original on 6 November 2017. Retrieved 7 November 2017.
  6. ^ "Calendar 2017". asiarugby.com. Retrieved 16 June 2017.
  7. ^ "Women's Grand Prix offers England and Ireland potential lifeline". World Rugby. Retrieved 16 June 2017.
  8. ^ "Top teams for Oceania 7s championship". Fiji Times. 20 September 2017. Archived from the original on 20 September 2017. Retrieved 20 September 2017.

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