Australian Sevens
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| Sport | Rugby sevens |
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| Inaugural season | 1999–2000 (Brisbane Sevens) |
| No. of teams | 16 |
| Most recent champion(s) |  Fiji |
| Most titles | Fiji (5 times) |
The Australian Sevens is a rugby union sevens tournament that is part of the Sevens World Series. The tournament is currently hosted in Sydney.[1] In previous seasons it was held on the Gold Coast, in Adelaide and in Brisbane.
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History
The 2000 Brisbane Sevens was the first Australian Sevens tournament in the World Sevens Series run by the International Rugby Board (IRB). It was the 7th tournament of the series in the inaugural 1999-2000 season and was plared at Ballymore. Fiji played Australia in the final, and won the match in the dying seconds, thanks to a brilliant try to Waisale Serevi.[2] Brisbane's hosting rights for 2001 were withdrawn by the IRB because of the Australian Federal Government's sporting boycott of Fiji,[3] imposed after the 2000 Fijian coup d'état.[4] After sanctions were lifted later in 2001,[5] the remaining two tournaments of Brisbane's four year hosting agreement were played and won by Australia and England in 2002 and 2003 respectively.[6][7] Australia was not awarded a World Sevens tournament for the next three years.
Adelaide secured the hosting rights for the 2006/07 season. The 2007 Adelaide Sevens took place in April of that year, replacing the Singapore Sevens in the calendar.[8] The tournament was hosted at Adelaide Oval for five seasons, with the last edition of the Adelaide Sevens being held in 2011.
Gold Coast 7s
In April 2011, the Australian Rugby Union announced that the Australian leg of the Sevens World Series would be played at Skilled Park on the Gold Coast for at least the next four years.[9] The tournament was scheduled for the early part of the 2011/12 season, which meant that two World Sevens events were played in Australia in 2011. The Gold Coast tournament was initially named the "International Rugby Sevens Gold Coast",[9] but was later rebranded as the Gold Coast Sevens.[10]
The Gold Coast attendances for the 2013 and 2014 events were lower than expected,[11][12] and in March 2015 the ARU announced that Allianz Stadium in Sydney would host the event for the next four years from the 2015–16 season.[12][13]
Results
Brisbane Sevens
| Year | Venue | Cup | Plate | Bowl | Shield | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Winner | Final Score | Runner-up | Winner | Winner | Winner | ||
| 1999/00 Details |
Ballymore |  Fiji |
24 – 21 |  Australia |
 Argentina |
 Tonga |
n/a |
| 2000/01 Details |
Ballymore | Tournament cancelled by IRB in response to the Australian Government's sporting sanctions against Fiji.[3] | |||||
| 2001/02 Details |
Ballymore | Australia |
28 – 0 |  New Zealand |
Fiji |
 Cook Islands |
 Canada |
| 2002/03 Details |
Ballymore |  England |
28 – 14 | Fiji |
Australia |
Tonga |
Cook Islands |
Adelaide Sevens
| Year | Venue | Cup | Plate | Bowl | Shield | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Winner | Final Score | Runner-up | Winner | Winner | Winner | ||
| 2006/07 Details |
Adelaide Oval | Fiji |
21 – 7 |  Samoa |
Australia |
 Wales |
Canada |
| 2007/08 Details |
Adelaide Oval |  South Africa |
15 – 7 | New Zealand |
Tonga |
Argentina |
Wales |
| 2008/09 Details |
Adelaide Oval | South Africa |
26 – 7 |  Kenya |
England |
Samoa |
 United States |
| 2009/10 Details |
Adelaide Oval | Samoa |
38 – 10 | United States |
New Zealand |
England |
 Japan |
| 2010/11 Details |
Adelaide Oval | New Zealand |
28 – 20 | South Africa |
Wales |
United States |
Japan |
Gold Coast Sevens
| Year | Venue | Cup | Plate | Bowl | Shield | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Winner | Final Score | Runner-up | Winner | Winner | Winner | ||
| 2011/12 Details |
Robina Stadium | Fiji |
26 – 12 | New Zealand |
Wales |
Argentina |
 Papua New Guinea |
| 2012/13 Details |
Robina Stadium | Fiji |
32 – 14 | New Zealand |
Argentina |
 Spain |
 Scotland |
| 2013/14 Details |
Robina Stadium | New Zealand |
40 – 19 | Australia |
Fiji |
 France |
United States |
| 2014/15 Details |
Robina Stadium | Fiji |
31 – 24 | Samoa |
New Zealand |
France |
Canada |
Sydney Sevens
| Year | Venue | Cup | Plate | Bowl | Shield | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Winner | Final Score | Runner-up | Winner | Winner | Winner | ||
| 2015/16 Details |
Sydney Football Stadium | Scheduled for 6–7 February 2016. | |||||
See also
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External links
- Use dmy dates from April 2011
- Use Australian English from April 2011
- All Wikipedia articles written in Australian English
- Pages with broken file links
- Rugby union in South Australia
- Rugby union in Queensland
- Rugby union in New South Wales
- Sport in Adelaide
- Sport in Brisbane
- Sport on the Gold Coast, Queensland
- Sport in Sydney
- Australian Sevens
- IRB Sevens World Series
