The 2019 Sydney Women's Sevens was the third tournament within the

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and the third edition of the

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. It was held over the weekend of 1–3 February 2019 at

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, with former venue Allianz Stadium closed for rebuilding. It was run alongside the men's tournament.

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, the highest-placing non-core team of the

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, Papua New Guinea:

Pool stage

All times in

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( UTC+11:00)

Pool A

Pool B

Pool C

Knockout stage

Challenge Trophy

5th Place

Cup

Tournament placings

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Players

Scoring leaders

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References

External links

Tournament site

World Rugby info
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