The 2016 Dubai Sevens was the first tournament within the
2016–17 World Rugby Sevens Series. It was held over the weekend of 2–3 December 2016 at
The Sevens Stadium in
Dubai
Dubai (Help:IPA/English, /duːˈbaɪ/ Help:Pronunciation respelling key, ''doo-BYE''; Modern Standard Arabic, Modern Standard Arabic: ; Emirati Arabic, Emirati Arabic: , Romanization of Arabic, romanized: Help:IPA/English, /diˈbej/) is the Lis ...
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United Arab Emirates
The United Arab Emirates (UAE), or simply the Emirates, is a country in West Asia, in the Middle East, at the eastern end of the Arabian Peninsula. It is a Federal monarchy, federal elective monarchy made up of Emirates of the United Arab E ...
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Format
The teams were drawn into four pools of four teams each. Each team played the other three in its 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 are participating in the tournament along with one invited team, the winner of the
2016 Africa Cup Sevens,
Uganda
Uganda, officially the Republic of Uganda, is a landlocked country in East Africa. It is bordered to the east by Kenya, to the north by South Sudan, to the west by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, to the south-west by Rwanda, and to the ...
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Pool stage
Pool A
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Pool B
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Pool C
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Pool D
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Knockout stage
13th place
Challenge trophy
5th place
Cup
Tournament placings
Source
World Rugby
(archived)
References
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2016
2016 was designated as:
* International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly.
* International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...
2016–17 World Rugby Sevens Series
2016 in Emirati sport
2016 in Asian rugby union