The 2018 Oceania Sevens Championship was the eleventh
Oceania Sevens
The Oceania Rugby Men's Sevens Championship is an international rugby sevens competition organised by Oceania Rugby. It has been held regularly since 2008 to select the best men's national team in Oceania.
Participating teams
Men's teams competi ...
in men's rugby sevens. It was held at ANZ Stadium in
Suva
Suva () is the capital and largest city of Fiji. It is the home of the country's largest metropolitan area and serves as its major port. The city is located on the southeast coast of the island of Viti Levu, in Rewa Province, Central Divi ...
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Fiji
Fiji ( , ,; fj, Viti, ; Fiji Hindi: फ़िजी, ''Fijī''), officially the Republic of Fiji, is an island country in Melanesia, part of Oceania in the South Pacific Ocean. It lies about north-northeast of New Zealand. Fiji consists ...
on 9–10 November.
[ Host nation Fiji won the tournament, defeating New Zealand by 17–12 in the final.][
Tonga finished fifth and, as the highest-placed side without core status on the ]World Rugby Sevens Series
The World Rugby Men's Sevens Series is an annual series of international rugby sevens tournaments run by World Rugby featuring national sevens teams. Organised for the first time in the 1999–2000 season as the IRB World Sevens Series, the com ...
, won berths to the Sydney Sevens and Hamilton Sevens for 2019. Tonga also joined the sixth-placed Cook Islands as Oceania's representatives for the 2019 Hong Kong Sevens
The 2019 Hong Kong Sevens was a rugby sevens tournament that took place at the Hong Kong Stadium between the 5–7 April 2019. It was the 44th edition of the Hong Kong Sevens, and the seventh tournament of the 2018–19 World Rugby Sevens Serie ...
qualifying tournament for the 2020 World Series.[
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Teams
Participating nations for the 2018 tournament was almost the same as the previous year with Niue replacing American Samoa in the teams being entered:
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Pool stage
The draw for the pool stage was done by a random order with the top four seeds being set as the top team in each of the four pools with the remaining spots in the draw being done by bands (5-8th, 9-12th).[
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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
9th-12th Place
5th-8th Place
Championship
Placings
Source
World Rugby
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References
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2018
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2018 rugby sevens competitions
2018 in Oceanian rugby union
2018 in Fijian rugby union
International rugby union competitions hosted by Fiji
Sport in Suva