The Canada men’s national rugby sevens team competes at several international tournaments — the Rugby World Cup Sevens, Pan American Games and the Commonwealth Games. Following a loss in the Qualifier Playoffs in the Grand Finel, Canada were relegated from the World Rugby Sevens Series. They have qualified for the World Rugby Sevens Challenger Series.
History
Honours 2011 Pan American Games Gold medal 2013 Rugby World Cup Sevens Plate Champions 2013 World Games Bronze medal 2015 Pan American Games Gold medal 2017 Singapore Sevens Cup Champions
Players Current squad The following players have been selected to represent Canada during the 2023–24 SVNS tournament beginning in December 2023.
Note: Caps reflect the total number of SVNS events competed in as of the 2023 Dubai Sevens.
World Rugby Sevens Series
The principal competition in which the Canada national rugby sevens team regularly competes is the World Rugby Sevens Series. Canada is one of the core teams that plays in every Series tournament.
Main Series Season Rank PointsTournaments1st Cup 2nd Silver 3rd Bronze 5th Plate9th Bowl1999–006th6010/100 -Wellington002000–018th269/900 -0 Shanghai2001–0212th810/1100 -002002–0312th67/700 - Hong Kong Wellington2003–049th228/800 -0 DubaiHong Kong2004–0512th27/700 -0 USA2005–0612th48/800 -002006–0713th88/800 -002007–0816th28/800 -002008–0915th35/800 -002009–1011th155/800 -0 Hong Kong London2010–1115th55/800 -0 Hong Kong2011–1213th335/9 0 0 0 0 USA2012–1312th699/9 0 0 0 USA Wellington2013–146th909/90 Scotland USA0 London2014–159th679/90000 South Africa2015–16 13th 4010/100000 Sydney Canada2016–17 8th 9810/10 Singapore0 London002017–18 9th 76 10/10000002018–19 11th 59 10/100000 Paris2019–20 8th 67 6/1000 Canada Hamilton02021 4th 24 2/2000002021-22† 14th 34 Ranking 36 Total 9/9000002022-23 14th 39 11/11000002023-24 12th 14 8/800000
Third place games/Bronze finals were introduced in the 2011-12 season. Starting in the 2016-17 season, Silver and Bronze medals were introduced, 5th place replaced the Plate, the Challenge Trophy replace the Bowl, and the 13th place replaced the Shield. † Due to the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, World Rugby revised the method used for the series standings in the interest of fairness to teams not able to participate in all rounds of the 2021–22 season. This system excluded the two lowest-scored rounds from each team in the final standings. So, with nine tournaments in the series, only the best seven tournament results for each team contributed to the ranking points.
Totals TournamentsPlayedWonLostDrawnWin percentagePoints ScoredPoints Conceded1971,07344061618%18,02621,046
Last updated: 22 June 2024.
Challenger Series Season Rank PointsTournaments1st Cup2nd Silver 3rd Bronze 2025483/30 Cape Town 1Cape Town 2
World Series Qualifier Playoffs SeasonPositionQualifying2025=5th 4 2 2 Lost in Playoffs to Kenya 24-5
SVNS 3 SeasonPositionQualifying2026 5 4 1 Qualified for 2026 SVNS 2
SVNS 2 Season Rank PointsTournaments1st Cup2nd Silver 3rd Bronze Qualifying2026 6th 343/30 00Did not qualify
Major quadrennial tournaments Canada competes to participate in two major global quadrennial tournaments — the Summer Olympics and the Rugby World Cup Sevens.
Summer Olympics Olympic Games recordYearRound QualifyingDid not qualify Lost in QF of the Final Qualification TournamentQuarterfinals 8th 6 150 Won 40–5 vs Jamaica at the 2019 RAN Sevens 2024Did not qualify Lost in SF of the Final Qualification TournamentTotal 0 Titles 1/3 6 1 5 0
Rugby World Cup Sevens World Cup recordYearRoundPosition 1993Bowl Semifinals=15th 6 2 4 0 1997Bowl Quarterfinals=21st 5 0 5 0 2001Quarterfinals=5th 6 3 3 0 2005Group Stage=18th 8 3 5 0 2009Plate Quarterfinals=13th 4 2 2 0 2013Plate Champions9th6510 2018Challenge Trophy 12th 5 2 3 0 2022Challenge Trophy 13th 5 3 2 0Total0 Titles8/84520250
Other tournaments Commonwealth Games
Commonwealth Games recordYearRoundPosition 1998Quarterfinals5th 5 3 1 1 2002 Plate semifinals 7th 5 2 3 0 2006Quarterfinals5th 4 2 2 0 2010Bowl finals10th 6 3 3 0 2014Bowl champions9th 6 4 2 0 2018Pool round =9th 3 1 2 0 2022Quarterfinals=7th 5 2 3 0Total0 Titles7/73417161
Pan American Games Pan Am Games recordYearRoundPosition 2011Finals 6 6 0 0 2015Finals 6 5 1 0 2019Finals 5 3 2 0 2023Finals 5 3 2 0Total2 Titles4/4221750
World Games World Games recordYearRoundPosition 2001Quarter-finals6th6150 2005did not participate 2009did not participate 2013Semi-finals6420Total0 Titles2/412570 Rugby sevens was discontinued after the 2013 World Games due to the sport returning to the Olympics in 2016.
Player records The following shows the Canadian statistical leaders based on World Series play.
+ Most matchesRankPlayerMatches 1 Nathan Hirayama 363 2 Harry Jones 327 3 John Moonlight 3184 Phil Mack 269 Mike Fuailefau 269 6 Phil Berna 242 7 Justin Douglas 239 8 Conor Trainor 214 9 Pat Kay 209 10 Sean Duke 202
+ Most pointsRankPlayerPoints 1 Nathan Hirayama 1,859 2 Phil Mack 973 3 Harry Jones 782 4 Justin Douglas 725 5 Sean Duke 622 6 John Moonlight 580 7 David Moonlight 553 8 Mike Danskin 480 9 Marco Di Girolamo 392 10 Shane Thompson 375
+ Most triesRankPlayerTries 1 Nathan Hirayama 147 2 Justin Douglas 144 3 Harry Jones 126 4 Sean Duke 124 5 John Moonlight 116 6 David Moonlight 107 7 Phil Mack 95 8 Shane Thompson 75 9 Fred Asselin 63 Mike Fuailefau
+ Most conversionsRankPlayer 1 Nathan Hirayama 559 2 Phil Mack 246 3 Mike Danskin 135 4 Jeff Williams 105 Cooper Coats 6 Harry Jones 76 7 Marco Di Girolamo 56 8 Derek Daypuck 42 9 Ed Fairhurst 37 Pat Kay
See also
Rugby World Cup Sevens Canada national rugby union team
References