The 2016 South Africa Sevens was the second tournament within the 2016–17 World Rugby Sevens Series and the eighteenth edition of the South Africa Sevens. It was held over the weekend of 10–11 December 2016 at Cape Town Stadium in Cape Town, South Africa.
Format The teams were drawn into four pools of four teams each, with each team playing every other team in their pool once. The top two teams from each pool advanced to the Cup/5th place brackets. The bottom two teams from each group went to the Challenge trophy/13th place brackets.
Teams Fifteen core teams participated in the tournament along with one invited team, which was the winner of the 2016 Africa Cup Sevens, Uganda:http://www.worldrugby.org/sevens-series/news/194340, Uganda set for Dubai after African win
Pool Stage Key to colours in group tablesTeams that advanced to the Cup Quarterfinal
Pool A TeamPldWDLPFPAPDPts33009817+81932015545+10731024348–55300317103–863
Pool B TeamPldWDLPFPAPDPts33008948+41932017947+32731028368+155300319107–883
Pool C TeamPldWDLPFPAPDPts32107838+40832015957+2731026959+10530124395–524
Pool D TeamPldWDLPFPAPDPts33008347+36932016731+36631024843+5530031996–773
Knockout stage
13th place
Challenge trophy
5th place
Cup
Tournament placings
PlaceTeam Points 22 19 17 4 15 5 13 6 12 7 10 10
PlaceTeam Points 9 810 7 11 5 513 314 2 15 1 1
Source: (archived)
References
External links World Rugby Sevens Series website