The Papua New Guinea women's national rugby sevens team represents Papua New Guinea in international women's rugby sevens tournaments. They are regular participants at the Oceania Women's Sevens Championship and Pacific Games.

History PNG's first international was in 2007 while hosting the first ever Pacific women's sevens championship (now known as Oceania Women's Sevens Championship) in Port Moresby. They won the 2011 Asia Pacific Women’s Sevens Championship that was held in Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia.

In 2017, the team made their first appearance at the World Rugby Women's Sevens Series as an invited team to the 2017 Sydney Women's Sevens. They debuted at the Women's Sevens World Cup in 2018.

They finished in fourth place at the 2019 Oceania Women's Sevens Championship which earned them a spot at the 2020 Women's Rugby Sevens Final Olympic Qualification Tournament. The Palais did not qualify for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

At the 2023 Pacific Games in Honiara, they were defeated by Fiji in the gold medal final and had to settle for silver. They competed in the 2024 World Rugby Sevens Challenger Series in Dubai; they finished ninth overall in the first round. They finished eleventh overall at the 2024 Sevens Challenger Series.

Tournament history A red box around the year indicates tournaments played within Papua New Guinea

World Cup Sevens Rugby World Cup 7sYearRoundPosition 2009did not enter 2013did not qualify 201815th playoff15th4130 2022did not qualifyTotal0 Titles1/44130

Pacific Games Pacific Games 7sYearRoundPosition 2011 Third playoff 7 4 3 0 2015 Third playoff 7 5 2 0 2019 Third playoff 6 4 2 0 2023 Final 5 4 1 0 Total0 Titles4/4251780

Oceania Women's Sevens Oceania Women's 7sYearRoundPosition RefsPacific 7s 2007 Third playoff 4 3 0 1 Oceania 7s 2008did not attend 2012 Third playoff 4th 6 3 3 0 2013 Pool stage 5th 4 0 3 1 2014 Pool stage 5th 6 3 3 0 2015 Third playoff 4th 6 1 5 0 2016 Round-robin 6 4 2 0 2017 Third playoff 4th 5 1 3 1 2018 Third playoff 4th 5 2 3 0 2019 Third playoff 4th 6 4 2 0 2021 did not attend 2022 withdrew 2023 Third playoff 4th 6 4 2 0Total0 Titles10/135022262

Oceania Sevens Challenge Oceania Women's 7s ChallengeYearRoundPosition 2022 Final5 5 0 0

World Rugby Sevens World Rugby women's sevens series Papua New Guinea have been a regular invitational team to the World Rugby Women's Sevens Series particularly at the Australian Women's Sevens (2017−2019, 2023) and New Zealand Women's Sevens (2023).

World Rugby Women's Sevens SeriesSeasonRoundsPositionPoints2016–171 / 614th12017–181 / 516th12018–191 / 616th12022–23 2 / 714th2

Player records The following shows leading career Papua New Guinean players based on performance in the World Rugby Women's Sevens Series.

+Tries scored No. Player Tries 1 9 2 33 1 1 1 1

+Points scored No. Player Points 1 49 2 153 5 5 5 5

+Matches played No. Player Matches 1 202 19 194 15 15 15

World Rugby Sevens Challenger Series In 2020, Papua New Guinea were scheduled to compete in the inaugural World Rugby Sevens Challenger Series after being the highest ranked non-core team from Oceania at the 2019 Oceania Women's Sevens Championship in Suva. However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, World Rugby postponed the tournament without rescheduling a future date, before eventually cancelling it altogether. Therefore, the official inaugural series was in 2022 in which Papua New Guinea gained a direct quota.

World Rugby Sevens Challenger SeriesSeasonRoundsPositionPoints2020 season cancelled due to impacts of COVID-19 pandemic.2022 1 / 111th2023 2 / 212th42024 3 / 311th8

Players Current squad Papua New Guinea's squad to the 2024 World Rugby Sevens Challenger Series:

Roster PlayerDate of birth (age)Union / Club 1 Barbara Sigere 2 Joyce Taravuna 3 BK Alice Alois Capital Rugby Union 4 Magdelene Swaki 6 Esther Gigmat 7 Naomi Kelly 8 Jessica Refireka 9 Cynthiah Peters 10 BK Capital Rugby Union 11 Helen Ken Alo 12 Joanne Lagona 15 FW Marie Biyama Capital Rugby Union

Previous squads

The Papua New Guinea Rugby Union announced its women's rugby sevens team on 28 June 2019.

Roster PlayerDate of birth (age)Union / Club 1 FW Kymlie Rapilla (c) National Capital District 2 FW Lynette Kwarula National Capital District 3 FW Marie Biyama Central 4 BK Central 5 BK Taiva Lavai National Capital District 6 BK Gemma Schnaubelt Queensland 7 BK Alice Alois National Capital District 8 BK Yolanda Gittins Queensland 9 FW Helen Abau Central 10 BK Marlugu Dixon Queensland 11 FW Melanie Kawa Queensland 12 BK Gwen Pokana National Capital District

Head coach: John Larry

PlayerDate of birth (age)Union / Club 1 FW New Capital District 2 FW Queensland 3 FW Central 4 BK New Capital District 5 (c) Central 6 BK Queensland 7 BK Central 8 New Capital District 9 BK Central 10 Central 11 Queensland 12 Queensland

PlayerDate of birth (age)Union / Club 1 BK Cassandra Samson (c) National Capital District 2 BK Alice Alois National Capital District 3 FW Queensland 4 FW Lynette Kwarula Central 5 BK Trisilla Rema New Capital District 6 BK Dulcie Bomai New Capital District 7 BK Menda Ipat National Capital District 8 BK Freda Waula New Capital District 9 FW Kymlie Rapilla New Capital District 10 FW Naomi Alapi New Capital District 11 FW Geua Larry Central 12 BK Joana Lagona New Capital District

See also Papua New Guinea women's national rugby union team

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