The 2015–16 World Rugby Women's Sevens Series was the fourth edition of the
World Rugby Women's Sevens Series
The World Rugby Women's Sevens Series, is a series of international rugby sevens tournaments for women's national teams run by World Rugby. The inaugural series was held in 2012–13 as the successor to the IRB Women's Sevens Challenge Cup held ...
(formerly the IRB Women's Sevens World Series), an annual series of tournaments organised by
World Rugby
World Rugby is the world governing body for the sport of rugby union. World Rugby organises the Rugby World Cup every four years, the sport's most recognised and most profitable competition. It also organises a number of other international rug ...
for women's national teams in
rugby sevens. The tour was a companion to the
2015–16 World Rugby Sevens Series
The 2015–16 World Rugby Sevens Series, known for sponsorship reasons as the HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series, was the 17th annual series of rugby union sevens tournaments for national men's rugby sevens teams. The Sevens Series has been run by ...
for men.
The series was won by who won three tour events on their way to claiming their first World Series title.
[ The previous women's champions finished in second place ahead of and .][
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The competition
There were five tournament events in 2015–16. Twelve teams competed at each event; eleven being "core" teams, with a twelfth team invited to participate in particular events (similar to previous women's series as well as the men's counterpart). The overall winner of the series was determined by points gained from the standings across the five events.[
For the second time, the women's series held a core team qualifying tournament, similar to that held in the men's HSBC Sevens World Series. The qualifying event was held at ]University College Dublin
University College Dublin (commonly referred to as UCD) ( ga, Coláiste na hOllscoile, Baile Átha Cliath) is a public research university in Dublin, Ireland, and a member institution of the National University of Ireland. With 33,284 student ...
, in Ireland, and resulted in Japan and hosts Ireland qualifying as core teams for the main 2015-16 tournament.[ ]
Teams
Eleven "core teams" participated in all series events for the 2015–16 series, the same number as the previous season. The top nine finishers in the 2014–15 series were granted core team status for 2014–15:
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Two additional core teams were determined in a qualifying tournament:
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Events
Qualifying tournament
The core team qualifying tournament was held at the UCD Bowl UCD can refer to:
Education
*University College Dublin, Irish university
**University College Dublin A.F.C., the university's association football club
**University College Dublin RFC, the university's rugby union club
**UCD GAA, the university G ...
on 22–23 August 2015.
Points schedule
The season championship is determined by points earned in each tournament. The scoring system is the same used in the previous year's series.
*Cup winner (1st place): 20 points
*Cup runner-up (2nd place): 18 points
*Cup third-place play-off winner (3rd place): 16 points
*Cup semi-finalist (4th place): 14 points
*Plate winner (5th place): 12 points
*Plate runner-up (6th place): 10 points
*Plate third-place play-off winner (7th place): 8 points
*Plate semi-finalist (8th place): 6 points
*Bowl winner (9th place): 4 points
*Bowl runner-up (10th place): 3 points
*Bowl third-place play-off winner (11th place): 2 points
*Bowl semi-finalist (12th place): 1 point
In the event of a tournament being abandoned, no series points are allocated.
If two or more teams are level on series points at the end of the season, the following tiebreakers are used to determine placement:[
#Overall difference in points scored and allowed during the season.
#Total try count during the season.
#If neither of the above produces a winner, the teams are considered tied.
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Table
Final standings for the 2015–16 series:
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Tournaments
Dubai
Brazil
United States
Canada
France
References
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2015
2016 rugby sevens competitions
2015 rugby sevens competitions
2016 in women's rugby union
2015 in women's rugby union