The 2018
Premiership Rugby Sevens Series
The Premiership Rugby Sevens Series is a friendly Rugby Sevens competition for the twelve Premiership Rugby clubs that will play the following season (i.e. the 2010 competition features the teams playing in the Aviva Premiership in the 2010� ...
would be the eighth
rugby union
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sevens competition for the twelve clubs who compete in the
2018–19 Premiership Rugby
The 2018–19 Gallagher Premiership was the 32nd season of the top flight English domestic rugby union competition and the first one to be sponsored by Gallagher. The reigning champions entering the season were Saracens, who had claimed their fo ...
clubs. It was also the second to feature the new format in which all twelve Premiership Rugby teams feature together in one venue over two days.
The competition would be held at
Franklin's Gardens
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for the second successive year on 27 and 28 July 2018.
Format
The twelve teams were split into four groups – A, B, C & D. Each team in the group played each other once, to
World Rugby
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Laws of the Game – 7s Variations.
Based on the result, teams received:
* 4 points for a win
* 2 points for a draw
* 1 bonus point for a loss by seven points or less
* 1 bonus point for scoring four or more tries in a match
Following all matches in each group, the winner and runner-up in each group progressed to the quarter-finals. The winners of each quarter-final qualified for the cup semi-finals, with the losers eliminated. Thereafter, competition was a simple knockout bracket, with the winner of the cup final being declared the series winner. The third placed team in each pool compete in the plate competition.
Group stage
Date: Friday, 27 July 2018
Group A
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Group B
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Group C
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Group D
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Finals stage
Finals day was played on Saturday, 28 July 2018.
The four pool winners played a quarter-final against the runners-up in a 1 v 8, 2 v 7, 3 v 6 4 v 5 format. The winner of these quarter-finals competed in the cup competition, while the losers were eliminated. The third placed team in each pool competed in the plate competition.
Quarter-finals
Plate competition
Plate semi-finals
Plate final
Cup competition
Semi-finals
Final
References
{{DEFAULTSORT:English Premiership
2018–19
Sevens
2018 rugby sevens competitions