The 2019 Sydney Women's Sevens was the third tournament within the 2018–19 World Rugby Women's Sevens Series and the third edition of the Australian Women's Sevens. It was held over the weekend of 1–3 February 2019 at Spotless Stadium in Sydney, with former venue Allianz Stadium closed for rebuilding. It was run alongside the men's tournament.
Format The teams are drawn into three pools of four teams each. Each team plays every other team in their pool once. The top two teams from each pool advance to the Cup brackets while the top 2 third place teams also compete in the Cup/Plate. The other teams from each group play-off for the Challenge Trophy.
Teams Eleven core teams are participating in the tournament along with one invited team, the highest-placing non-core team of the 2018 Oceania Women's Sevens Championship, Papua New Guinea:
Pool stage All times in Australian Eastern Daylight Time (UTC+11:00)
Pool A TeamPldWDLPFPAPDPts33009812+86932018745+42731025061–115300310127–1173
Pool B TeamPldWDLPFPAPDPts32104640+6831113135–4631025739+18531025272–205
Pool C TeamPldWDLPFPAPDPts32015526+29732015943+16732013545–10730032964–353
Knockout stage
Challenge Trophy
MatchesSemifinals
Eleventh Place
Final
5th Place
MatchesSemifinals
Seventh Place
Final
Cup
MatchesQuarterfinals
Semifinals
Third Place
Final
Tournament placings
PlaceTeam Points 20 18 164 145 126 10
PlaceTeam Points7 88 69 410 311 212 1
Source: World Rugby
Players
Scoring leaders
+Tries scored Rank Player Tries 1 Amee-Leigh Murphy-Crowe 9 2 Michaela Blyde 7 3 Bianca Farella 6 4 Ellia Green 5 Fanny Horta
+Points scored Rank Player Points 1 Amee-Leigh Murphy-Crowe 45 2 Emma Sykes 40 3 Michaela Blyde 35 4 Ghislaine Landry 33 5 Patricia García 32
Source: World Rugby
See also World Rugby Women's Sevens Series 2018–19 World Rugby Women's Sevens Series 2019 Sydney Sevens
References
External links Tournament site World Rugby info