The 2019 Sydney Sevens was the fourth tournament within the 2018–19 World Rugby Sevens Series and the seventeenth edition of the Australian Sevens. It was held over the weekend of 2–3 February 2019 at Spotless Stadium in Sydney, with former venue Allianz Stadium closed for rebuilding. It was run alongside the women's tournament.
Format The teams are drawn into four 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 bracket where teams compete for the Gold, Silver, and Bronze Medals. The bottom two teams from each group go to the Challenge Trophy bracket.
Teams Fifteen core teams played in the tournament along with one invitational team, the highest-placing non-core team of the 2018 Oceania Sevens Championship, Tonga:
Pool stage All times in Australian Eastern Daylight Time (UTC+11:00)
Pool A TeamPldWDLPFPAPDPts33006524+41932016726+41731022682–56530034167–263
Pool B TeamPldWDLPFPAPDPts33008414+70932015736+21731025067–175300331105–743
Pool C TeamPldWDLPFPAPDPts330011014+96932013153–22731024560–15530031978–593
Pool D TeamPldWDLPFPAPDPts32019144+47732017550+25732017351+227300317111–943
Knockout stage
Thirteenth Place
MatchesSemifinals
Final
Challenge Trophy
MatchesQuarterfinals
Semifinals
Final
5th Place
MatchesSemifinals
Final
Cup
MatchesQuarterfinals
Semifinals
Third Place
Final
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: World Rugby
Players
Scoring leaders
+Tries scored Rank Player Tries 1 Joe Perez 6 Siviwe Soyizwapi 3 Alasio Naduva 5 Carlin Isles Mateo Carreras
+Points scored Rank Player Points 1 Katsuyuki Sakai 47 2 Madison Hughes 35 3 Vilimoni Koroi 32 3 Joe Perez 30 Selvyn Davids
Source: World Rugby
Dream Team The following seven players were selected to the tournament Dream Team at the conclusion of the tournament:
Forwards Backs Mesulame Kunavula Sam Dickson Stephen Tomasin Alasio Naduva Madison Hughes Kurt Baker Dan Norton
See also World Rugby Sevens Series 2018–19 World Rugby Sevens Series 2019 Sydney Women's Sevens
References
External links Tournament site Tournament Page