Oceania Women's Sevens Championship


The Oceania Women's Sevens is the regional championship for women's international rugby sevens in Oceania. The tournament is held over two days, typically on a weekend. It is sanctioned and sponsored by Oceania Rugby, which is the rugby union governing body for the region.
Rugby sevens — also known as 7-a-side, or 7s — is a short form of the sport of rugby union that was first played in 1883. The first internationals took place in 1973. As women's rugby union developed in the 1960s and 1970s the format became very popular as it allowed games, and entire leagues, to be developed in countries even when player numbers were small, and it remains the main form the women's game is played in most parts of the world.
However, although the first women's international rugby union 15-a-side test match took place in 1982, it was not until 1997 before the first women's international 7s tournaments were played, when the 1997 Hong Kong Sevens included a women's tournament for the first time. Over the next decade the number of tournaments grew, with almost every region developing regular championship competitions. This reached its zenith with 2009's inaugural women's tournament for the Rugby World Cup Sevens, shortly followed by the announcement that women's rugby sevens will be included in the Olympics from 2016.
The first official regional 7s championship for international women's teams from Oceania was the Pacific tournament held in Port Moresby in 2007. This was followed by the Oceania Championship in 2008. The Oceania Women's Sevens has periodically served as the regional pre-qualifying competition for the Rugby 7s World Cup, or other sevens tournaments.
The following are details of all official regional women's international championships played in the Oceania/Pacific region since the first tournament in 2007, listed chronologically with the earliest first, with all result details, where known.

Honours

Pacific Tournament 2007

Played 1 and 2 December at Port Moresby, PNG
Plate Final
Final
Venue/Date: 25–26 July 2008, Samoa. This will be a regional qualifier for the Dubai tournament in 2009

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  • New Zealand 29-0 Samoa
  • Fiji 55-0 Niue
  • Australia 21-7 Fiji
  • Samoa 48-0 Niue
  • Niue 0-59 New Zealand
  • Samoa 0-46 Australia
  • Fiji 10-31 New Zealand
  • Australia 59-0 Niue
  • Australia 15-5 New Zealand
  • Samoa 12-17 Fiji

Classification Stages

Semi-finals
3rd Place
Cup Final
3–4 August 2012, Churchill Park, Fiji
Fiji qualify for the Asia/Oceania final qualifier in Pune. Top four teams qualify for the Borneo Asia-Pacific Sevens.

Pool Stages

Pool 1
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Quarter-finals:
Plate semi-finals
Cup Semi-finals:
7th place
5th place
Third place
Final:
5–6 October 2013, Noosa, Australia. Five teams attending.

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  • New Zealand 48-0 Papua New Guinea
  • Australia 36-0 Fiji
  • Samoa 7-7 Papua New Guinea
  • Australia 19-7 New Zealand
  • Australia 48-0 Papua New Guinea
  • Fiji 31-0 Samoa
  • New Zealand 43-0 Samoa
  • Fiji 54-0 Papua New Guinea
  • Australia 40-5 Samoa
  • New Zealand 26-12 Fiji

Cup Semi-final 1:
Cup Semi-final 2:
Third place
Final:
3–4 October 2014, Noosa, Australia.

  • Fiji 38 Papua New Guinea 0
  • Australia 41 Tonga 0
  • New Zealand 41 Cook Islands 0
  • Samoa 24 Tonga 12
  • Australia 24 Fiji 5
  • Papua New Guinea 24 Cook Islands 10
  • Papua New Guinea 34 Tonga 14
  • Samoa 19 Cook Islands 0
  • New Zealand 24 Fiji 7
  • Tonga 5 Cook Islands 30
  • Samoa 12 Papua New Guinea 10
  • New Zealand 19 Australia 17
  • Fiji 50 Tonga 0
  • Australia 33 Cook Islands 0
  • New Zealand 40 Samoa 0
  • Fiji 50 Cook Islands 0
  • Australia 45 Samoa 0
  • New Zealand 29 Papua New Guinea 7
  • Fiji 31 Samoa 0
  • Australia 31 Papua New Guinea 0
  • New Zealand 52 Tonga 0


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Notes: Samoa was ranked ahead of PNG due to winning their head-to-head match. There were no semifinals but the top two teams, New Zealand and Australia, played off in a final to decide the championship title.
Final
  • New Zealand 31 Australia 10

Coral Coast Sevens 2014

The fifth edition of the tournament was held on 13–15 November 2014 at Sigatoka, Lawaqa Park,.
12 women's teams and 24 men's teams were invited to compete for a total prize pool of $75,000.
International matches:
New Caledonia lost in Bowl final; PNG won the Plate final; Fiji lose Vs Serevi Selects in Cup semi-finals; Australia won Cup final 19-7 Vs Serevi Selects.

Oceania Championship and Olympic Qualifier 2015

14–15 November, Auckland, New Zealand.

2016 Oceania Championship

November 11–12, ANZ National Stadium, Suva, Fiji.

2017 Oceania Championship

November 10–11, Suva, Fiji.

2018 Oceania Championship

November 9–10, Suva, Fiji.