The 2017 South Africa Sevens was the second tournament within the
2017–18 World Rugby Sevens Series
The 2017–18 World Rugby Sevens Series, known for sponsorship reasons as the HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series, was the 19th annual series of rugby sevens tournaments for national men's rugby sevens teams. The World Rugby Sevens Series, Sevens Ser ...
and the nineteenth edition of the
South Africa Sevens
The South Africa Sevens is an annual rugby sevens tournament that is held in South Africa. It is currently hosted in Cape Town and is part of the Sevens World Series run by World Rugby. A South African leg of the World series has been include ...
. It was held over the weekend of 9–10 December 2017 at
Cape Town Stadium
The Cape Town Stadium ( af, Kaapstad-stadion; xh, Inkundla yezemidlalo yaseKapa) is an association football (soccer) and rugby union stadium in Cape Town, South Africa, that was built for the 2010 FIFA World Cup. During the planning stage, it wa ...
in
Cape Town
Cape Town ( af, Kaapstad; , xh, iKapa) is one of South Africa's three capital cities, serving as the seat of the Parliament of South Africa. It is the legislative capital of the country, the oldest city in the country, and the second largest ...
,
South Africa
South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa. It is bounded to the south by of coastline that stretch along the South Atlantic and Indian Oceans; to the north by the neighbouring countri ...
.
Format
The teams were drawn into four pools of four teams each. Each team played every other team in their pool once. The top two teams from each pool advanced to the Cup brackets where teams competed for the Gold, Silver, and Bronze medals. The bottom two teams from each group went to the playoffs in the Challenge Trophy brackets.
Teams
Fifteen core teams are participating in the tournament along with one invited team, the winner of the
2017 Africa Cup Sevens
The 2017 Africa Cup Sevens is a rugby sevens tournament held in Kampala, Uganda on 6–7 October 2017. It will be the 5th championship in a series that began in 2013.
The 2017 tournament serves as a qualifier for the following:
* The 2018 Hong ...
, Uganda:
Pool stage
All times in
South African Standard Time
South African Standard Time (SAST) is the time zone used by all of South Africa as well as Eswatini and Lesotho. The zone is two hours ahead of UTC ( UTC+02:00) and is the same as Central Africa Time. Daylight saving time is not observed in e ...
(
UTC+2:00)
Pool A
Pool B
Pool C
Pool D
Knockout stage
13th place
Challenge Trophy
5th place
Cup
Tournament placings
Source
World Rugby
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Players
Scoring leaders
Source
World Rugby
Dream Team
The following seven players were selected to the tournament Dream Team at the conclusion of the tournament:
References
External links
Tournament Page
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2017–18 World Rugby Sevens Series
2017 in South African rugby union
December 2017 sports events in Africa