The 2019 France Women's Sevens is the final tournament within the

2018–19 World Rugby Women's Sevens Series The 2018–19 World Rugby Women's Sevens Series was the seventh edition of the World Rugby Women's Sevens Series, global circuit for women's national rugby sevens teams, organised by World Rugby. There were six tournament events scheduled on th ...

and the fourth edition of the

France Women's Sevens The France Women's Sevens is an annual women's rugby sevens tournament, and one of the stops on the World Rugby Women's Sevens Series. France joined in the fourth year of the Series. As of the current 2019–20 season, the tournament is held ...

. For the first time in the tournament's history, it is held over the weekend of 15–16 June 2019 at Parc des Sports Aguiléra in

Biarritz Biarritz ( , , , ; Basque also ; oc, Biàrritz ) is a city on the Bay of Biscay, on the Atlantic coast in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department in the French Basque Country in southwestern France. It is located from the border with Spain. ...

. With New Zealand already qualified for the

2020 Summer Olympics The , officially the and also known as , was an international multi-sport event held from 23 July to 8 August 2021 in Tokyo, Japan, with some preliminary events that began on 21 July. Tokyo was selected as the host city during the ...

, and the United States only needing to field a team to become eligible, the remaining two slots shall be determined over the weekend based upon overall series ranking.

Format

The teams are drawn into three pools of four teams each. Each team plays every other team in their pool once. The top two teams from each pool advance to the Cup brackets while the top 2 third place teams also compete in the Cup/Plate. The other teams from each group play-off for the Challenge Trophy.

Teams

Eleven core teams are participating in the tournament along with one invited team, Scotland:

Pool stage

All times in Central European Summer Time ( UTC+02:00)

Pool A

Pool B

Pool C

Knockout stage

Challenge Trophy

5th place

Cup

Tournament placings

Source
World Rugby
/small>

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

World Rugby page
{{DEFAULTSORT:France

2019 File:2019 collage v1.png, From top left, clockwise: Hong Kong protests turn to widespread riots and civil disobedience; House of Representatives votes to adopt articles of impeachment against Donald Trump; CRISPR gene editing first used to experim ...

2018–19 World Rugby Women's Sevens Series 2019 in French women's sport June 2019 sports events in France 2019 in women's rugby union 2018–19 in French rugby union