The New Zealand national rugby sevens team competes in 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 ...

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, Summer Olympic Games and the

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. They have won a record twelve

titles. The team has been officially known as the All Blacks Sevens since 1 June 2012. The team played for the first time at the 1973 International Seven-A-Side Tournament. In 1983 it first entered the

Hong Kong Sevens The Hong Kong Sevens () is an rugby sevens tournament held annually in Hong Kong on a weekend in late March or early April. Considered the premier tournament on the World Rugby Sevens Series competition, the Hong Kong Sevens is currently the s ...

, where it has been champion 10 times and runner-up another 10 times. The All Blacks Sevens are the current Rugby World Cup Sevens.

History

World Sevens Series

The team has won thirteen of the 21 World Rugby Sevens World Series events. Since 2000 when the series first started, the only times they have not won the series were in 2006 when Fiji were crowned champions, 2009, 2017 and 2018 won by

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. 2010 when they came second to

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and 2015, 2016 when Fiji won the series back to back and then in 2019 when Fiji won their 4th series title. New Zealand won a COVID-19 affect 2020 series, finishing at the top of the standings after six tournaments. The 2021 series winners are South Africa New Zealand couldn't defend their title because of lockdown travel restrictions by New Zealand.

2007

In the 2006–07 series, it was left until the last round at

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, Edinburgh, to find out who would win. If Fiji had won their quarter-final against Wales then they would have won the series but they lost 21–14. This meant that New Zealand needed to win the final against

to win the title. With a convincing six tries to one, 34–5 scoreline, they did just that and were crowned champions.

2008

The 2007–08 series saw New Zealand set several records. They became the first team in the nine-year history of the IRB Sevens to have won the first four events of a season, having won the

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and

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tournaments. During the USA Sevens, they broke their own record, set in 2001 and 2002, for most consecutive match wins in the IRB Sevens. The team extended their streak of tournaments won to the first five of the season, and a record seven overall, by defeating

in the final of the 2008 Hong Kong Sevens. Their record streaks of tournaments won (7) and match wins (47) ended in the final of the Adelaide Sevens with a 15–7 defeat to South Africa. Although they would lose to

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in the Cup quarterfinals of the next event, the

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, they won the second-level Plate final, giving them enough points to secure the 2007–08 series crown with one round to spare.

Records

World Rugby Sevens Series

New Zealand has won the World Rugby Sevens Series a record 13 times. New Zealand were particularly dominant in the early years of the Series, winning the first six series.

Summer Olympic Games

Rugby World Cup Sevens

Commonwealth Games

New Zealand is the most successful rugby sevens team at the Commonwealth Games. They have won five of the six Commonwealth Games tournaments so far, and finished second once. The team has only once lost a match at the Commonwealth Games – losing to South Africa in the final of the 2014 tournament.

Oceania Sevens

Players

Current squad

Squad named for 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham: ''Travelling reserves'' *, ''Non-travelling reserves'' **

Past squads

Player records

The following shows leading career New Zealand players based on performance in the World Rugby Sevens Series. Players in bold are still active.World Rugby website, current as of 15 March 2020
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Awards

Several New Zealand players have won or been nominated for the World Rugby Sevens Player of the Year award. The following table shows the players who have been nominated for the award at least twice and won the award at least once.

Coaches

* Clark Laidlaw (Head Coach) *

Junior Tomasi Cama Tomasi Cama (born 11 November 1980) is a New Zealand former rugby union player. He played for Manawatu Rugby Union, Manawatu in the Air New Zealand Cup, and the New Zealand Sevens team. Cama won the 2012 World Rugby Sevens Player of the Year Awa ...

(Assistant Coach) * Liam Barry (Assistant Coach)

Past coaches

References

External links

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All Blacks Sevens team The New Zealand national rugby sevens team competes in the World Rugby Sevens Series, Rugby World Cup Sevens, Summer Olympic Games and the Commonwealth Games. They have won a record twelve World Rugby Sevens Series titles. The team has been o ...