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Not to be confused with Australia national rugby union team (sevens).
Australian Sevens
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Sydney Sevens logo for 2016
Sport Rugby sevens
Inaugural season 1999–2000  (Brisbane Sevens)
No. of teams 16
Most recent champion(s)  Fiji
Most titles  Fiji  (5 times)

The Australian Sevens is a rugby union sevens tournament that is part of the Sevens World Series. The tournament is currently hosted in Sydney.[1] In previous seasons it was held on the Gold Coast, in Adelaide and in Brisbane.

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History

The 2000 Brisbane Sevens was the first Australian Sevens tournament in the World Sevens Series run by the International Rugby Board (IRB). It was the 7th tournament of the series in the inaugural 1999-2000 season and was plared at Ballymore. Fiji played Australia in the final, and won the match in the dying seconds, thanks to a brilliant try to Waisale Serevi.[2] Brisbane's hosting rights for 2001 were withdrawn by the IRB because of the Australian Federal Government's sporting boycott of Fiji,[3] imposed after the 2000 Fijian coup d'état.[4] After sanctions were lifted later in 2001,[5] the remaining two tournaments of Brisbane's four year hosting agreement were played and won by Australia and England in 2002 and 2003 respectively.[6][7] Australia was not awarded a World Sevens tournament for the next three years.

Adelaide secured the hosting rights for the 2006/07 season. The 2007 Adelaide Sevens took place in April of that year, replacing the Singapore Sevens in the calendar.[8] The tournament was hosted at Adelaide Oval for five seasons, with the last edition of the Adelaide Sevens being held in 2011.

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Logo of the
Gold Coast 7s

In April 2011, the Australian Rugby Union announced that the Australian leg of the Sevens World Series would be played at Skilled Park on the Gold Coast for at least the next four years.[9] The tournament was scheduled for the early part of the 2011/12 season, which meant that two World Sevens events were played in Australia in 2011. The Gold Coast tournament was initially named the "International Rugby Sevens Gold Coast",[9] but was later rebranded as the Gold Coast Sevens.[10]

The Gold Coast attendances for the 2013 and 2014 events were lower than expected,[11][12] and in March 2015 the ARU announced that Allianz Stadium in Sydney would host the event for the next four years from the 2015–16 season.[12][13]

Results

Brisbane Sevens

Year  Venue  Cup Plate Bowl Shield
Winner Final Score Runner-up Winner Winner Winner
1999/00
Details		 Ballymore
Fiji		 24 – 21
Australia
Argentina
Tonga		 n/a
2000/01
Details		 Ballymore Tournament cancelled by IRB in response to the Australian Government's sporting sanctions against Fiji.[3]
2001/02
Details		 Ballymore
Australia		 28 – 0
New Zealand
Fiji
Cook Islands
Canada
2002/03
Details		 Ballymore
England		 28 – 14
Fiji
Australia
Tonga
Cook Islands

Adelaide Sevens

Year  Venue  Cup Plate Bowl Shield
Winner Final Score Runner-up Winner Winner Winner
2006/07
Details		 Adelaide Oval
Fiji		 21 – 7
Samoa
Australia
Wales
Canada
2007/08
Details		 Adelaide Oval
South Africa		 15 – 7
New Zealand
Tonga
Argentina
Wales
2008/09
Details		 Adelaide Oval
South Africa		 26 – 7
Kenya
England
Samoa
United States
2009/10
Details		 Adelaide Oval
Samoa		 38 – 10
United States
New Zealand
England
Japan
2010/11
Details		 Adelaide Oval
New Zealand		 28 – 20
South Africa
Wales
United States
Japan

Gold Coast Sevens

Year  Venue  Cup Plate Bowl Shield
Winner Final Score Runner-up Winner Winner Winner
2011/12
Details		 Robina Stadium
Fiji		 26 – 12
New Zealand
Wales
Argentina
Papua New Guinea
2012/13
Details		 Robina Stadium
Fiji		 32 – 14
New Zealand
Argentina
Spain
Scotland
2013/14
Details		 Robina Stadium
New Zealand		 40 – 19
Australia
Fiji
France
United States
2014/15
Details		 Robina Stadium
Fiji		 31 – 24
Samoa
New Zealand
France
Canada

Sydney Sevens

Year  Venue  Cup Plate Bowl Shield
Winner Final Score Runner-up Winner Winner Winner
2015/16
Details		 Sydney Football Stadium Scheduled for 6–7 February 2016.

See also

References

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