The 2019 South Africa Sevens was the second tournament within the 2019–20 World Rugby Sevens Series and the 21st South Africa Sevens tournament. It was held on 13–15 December 2019 at Cape Town Stadium in Cape Town, South Africa.
Fiji, the United States and South Africa – three of the top four teams from the 2018–19 World Rugby Sevens Series – were all drawn into Pool A.
Format The 16 teams were drawn into four pools of four. Each team plays every other team in their pool once. The top two teams from each pool advance to the Cup playoffs and compete for gold, silver and bronze medals. The other teams from each pool go to the classification playoffs for 9th to 16th placings.
Teams Fifteen core teams participated in the tournament along with one invited team, Japan.
Pool stage All times in South African Standard Time (UTC+2:00)
Key to colours in group tablesTeams that advanced to the Cup quarter-final
Pool A TeamPldWDLPFPAPDPts33009629+67932019647+49731027149+22530037145−1383
Pool B TeamPldWDLPFPAPDPts33009526+69932019240+52731024380−375300321105−843
Pool C TeamPldWDLPFPAPDPts33009738+599320167670731026966+3530033395−623
Pool D TeamPldWDLPFPAPDPts32107859+19832106050+108310252520530034776−293
Placement matches
Fifteenth place
Thirteenth place
Eleventh place
Ninth place
Knockout stage Cup
Quarter-finals
Semi-finals
Third place
Final
Tournament placings
PlaceTeamPoints221917415513612711810
PlaceTeamPoints98107116125134143152161
Dream Team Runners-up and host team South Africa contributed three players to the tournament Dream Team.
Forwards Backs Scott Curry Alvin Otieno JC Pretorius Jean Pascal Barraque Rosko Specman Ruhan Nel Jordan Conroy
References