The 2019 Sydney Women's Sevens was the third tournament within the

2018–19 World Rugby Women's Sevens Series The 2018–19 World Rugby Women's Sevens Series was the seventh edition of the global circuit for women's national rugby sevens teams, organised by World Rugby. Six tournament events were scheduled on the 2018–19 circuit with twelve teams co ...

and the third edition of the

Australian Women's Sevens The Australian Women's Sevens, currently hosted in Perth, is an annual rugby sevens tournament and one of the stops on the World Rugby Women's Sevens Series. Australia joined the women's circuit in 2017 for the fifth edition of the series. Or ...

. It was held over the weekend of 1–3 February 2019 at Spotless Stadium in

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, with former venue Allianz Stadium closed for rebuilding. It was run alongside the men's tournament.

Format

The teams are drawn into three pools of four teams each. Each team plays every other team in their pool once. The top two teams from each pool advance to the Cup brackets while the top 2 third place teams also compete in the Cup/Plate. The other teams from each group play-off for the Challenge Trophy.

Teams

Eleven core teams are participating in the tournament along with one invited team, the highest-placing non-core team of the 2018 Oceania Women's Sevens Championship, Papua New Guinea:

Pool stage

All times in

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( UTC+11:00)

Pool A

Pool B

Pool C

Knockout stage

Challenge Trophy

5th Place

Cup

Tournament placings

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Players

Scoring leaders

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References

External links

Tournament site

World Rugby info
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