The 2022 South Africa Sevens was the third tournament within the

2022–23 World Rugby Sevens Series The 2022–23 World Rugby Sevens Series the 24th annual series of rugby sevens tournaments for men's national teams. The Sevens Series has been run by World Rugby since 1999. This series also, for the third time, doubled as a qualifier for the O ...

and the 22nd

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 ...

tournament. The event was won by , defeating by 12–7 in the final. It was held on 9–11 December 2022 at the

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in Cape Town, South Africa.

Format

The 16 teams were drawn into four pools of four. Each team plays every other team in their pool once. The top two teams from each pool advance to the Cup playoffs and compete for gold, silver and bronze medals. The other teams from each pool go to the classification playoffs for 9th to 16th placings.

Teams

Fifteen core teams participated in the tournament along with one invited team, 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 C saw a huge upset with defending champions New Zealand defeated 14-10 by Spain.

Pool D

Placement matches

Thirteenth place

Ninth place

Knockout stage

Fifth place

Cup playoffs

Tournament placings

Source
World Rugby

References

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