The 2016 Singapore Sevens was the eighth tournament of the
2015–16 World Rugby Sevens Series
The 2015–16 World Rugby Sevens Series, known for sponsorship reasons as the HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series, was the 17th annual series of rugby union sevens tournaments for national men's rugby sevens teams. The Sevens Series has been run by ...
. The tournament was played on 16–17 April 2016 at
National Stadium
Many countries have a national sport stadium, which typically serves as the primary or exclusive home for one or more of a country's national representative sports teams. The term is most often used in reference to an association football stadiu ...
in
Singapore
Singapore (), officially the Republic of Singapore, is a sovereign island country and city-state in maritime Southeast Asia. It lies about one degree of latitude () north of the equator, off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, borde ...
. It was the fourth time the
Singapore Sevens
The Singapore Sevens is an annual rugby sevens tournament contested by national teams. It was first hosted as part of the IRB World Sevens Series in 2002. The Standard Chartered Bank was the original title sponsor. It was effectively replace ...
was part of the World Sevens Series, having last hosted an event on the circuit in 2006.
Format
Sixteen teams are drawn into four pools of four teams each. Each team plays each of the other teams their pool once. The top two teams from each pool advance to the Cup/Plate brackets. The bottom two teams from each group go to the Bowl/Shield brackets.
Teams
The 16 participating teams for the tournament:
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Pool stages
Pool A
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Pool B
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Pool C
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Pool D
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Knockout stage
Shield
Bowl
Plate
Cup
External links
Official Site
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2016 in Singaporean sport
April 2016 sports events in Asia