The 2019 South Africa Sevens was the second tournament within the
2019–20 World Rugby Sevens Series
The 2019–20 World Rugby Sevens Series was the 21st annual series of rugby sevens tournaments for national men's rugby sevens teams. The World Rugby Sevens Series, Sevens Series has been run by World Rugby since 1999–2000.
In March 2020, Worl ...
and the 21st
South Africa Sevens tournament. It was held on 13–15 December 2019 at
Cape Town Stadium
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in
Cape Town
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,
South Africa
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.
Fiji, the United States and South Africa – three of the top four teams from the
2018–19 World Rugby Sevens Series
The 2018–19 World Rugby Sevens Series, known for sponsorship reasons as the HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series, was the 20th annual series of rugby sevens tournaments for national men's rugby sevens teams. The Sevens Series has been run by World R ...
– 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
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(
UTC+2:00)
Pool A
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Pool B
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Pool C
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Pool D
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Placement matches
Fifteenth place
Thirteenth place
Eleventh place
Ninth place
Knockout stage
Cup
Quarter-finals
Semi-finals
Third place
Final
Tournament placings
Dream Team
Runners-up and host team South Africa contributed three players to the tournament Dream Team.
References
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2019
This was the year in which the first known human case of COVID-19 was documented, preceding COVID-19 pandemic, the pandemic which was declared by the World Health Organization the following year.
Up to that point, 2019 had been described as ...
2019–20 World Rugby Sevens Series
2019 in South African rugby union
December 2019 sports events in South Africa