2015 ARFU Men's Sevens Championships

The 2015 ARFU Men's Sevens Championships is an Olympic qualification tournament for rugby sevens at the 2016 Summer Olympics which was held in Hong Kong on 7–8 November 2015.Boost for Hong Kong rugby’s Olympics hopes as city to host Asian qualifiers for Rio It was originally planned to use the 2015 Asian Sevens Series for the qualification but as the series clashed with the 2015 Rugby World Cup hosted in England, it was decided to use one qualifying tournament (with a pre-qualifying round) for Asia.

The Preliminary round was held in Chennai, India on 7–8 March 2015.

Pre-qualifying round

Pool stage Key to colours in group tablesTeams that advanced to the Semifinals

TeamsPldWDLPFPA+/−Pts44008734+531243019822+761042027354+19841033892–546400433127–944

Semifinals

Third Place Match

Final

Final standing Key to colours in group tablesTeams that advanced to the Olympic Qualifying round RankTeam1 23 4 5

Olympic qualifying round

Teams (Automatic qualifier) (Automatic qualifier) (Host Nation) (Preliminary round qualifier) (Automatic qualifier) (Automatic qualifier) (withdrawn) (Automatic qualifier) (Automatic qualifier) (Automatic qualifier) (Automatic qualifier) (Automatic qualifier) (Automatic qualifier) (withdrawn)

Pool stage Key to colours in group tablesTeams that advanced to the Cup SemifinalsTeams that advance to the Plate SemifinalsTeams that advance to 9th/10th place playoff

All match times are HKT (UTC+8).

Pool A TeamsPldWDLPFPA+/−Pts44001830+1831243018869+191042028653+338410319141−1226400425138−1134

Pool B TeamsPldWDLPFPA+/−Pts 440015412+14212 430111752+6510 42025498–448 410353104–516 400432144–1124

Playoffs

9th/10th Place Playoff

Plate Semifinals

7th/8th Place Playoff

Plate Final

Cup Semifinal

3rd/4th Place Playoff

Cup Final

Final standings LegendIn qualification position for the 2016 Summer Olympics.In qualification position for the Final 2016 Men's Olympic Qualification Tournament.

RankTeam45678910

References