The Australia Sevens is an international rugby sevens tournament that was first played in 1986. Currently hosted as the Sydney Sevens, the event is part of the

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. The tournament was held in Brisbane, in Adelaide, and on the Gold Coast in previous seasons.

History

The NSW Rugby Union hosted an international sevens tournament at

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in Sydney from 1986 to 1988, as part of

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celebrations. The Australian Rugby Football Union, later the Australian Rugby Union (ARU) and now known as

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, continued the event for a further year in 1989.Sydney 1986–
Rugby 7. The 2000 Brisbane Sevens was the first Australian Sevens tournament in the World Sevens Series run by the International Rugby Board (IRB), now known as

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. It was the 7th tournament of the series in the inaugural 1999-2000 season and was hosted at Lang Park. Fiji played Australia in the final, and won the match in the dying seconds, thanks to a brilliant try to

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. Brisbane's hosting rights for 2001 were withdrawn by the IRB because of the Australian Federal Government's sporting boycott of Fiji, imposed after the 2000 Fijian coup d'état. After sanctions were lifted later in 2001, the remaining two tournaments of Brisbane's four-year hosting agreement were played and won by Australia and

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in 2002 and 2003 respectively. Australia was not awarded a World Sevens tournament for the next three years. Adelaide secured the hosting rights for the 2006/07 season. The

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took place in April of that year, replacing the

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in the calendar. The tournament was hosted at

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for five seasons, with the last edition of the Adelaide Sevens being held in 2011. In April 2011, the ARU announced that the Australian leg of the Sevens World Series would be played at

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on the

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for at least the next four years. The tournament was scheduled for the early part of the 2011/12 season, which meant that two World Sevens events were played in Australia in 2011. The Gold Coast tournament was initially named the "International Rugby Sevens Gold Coast", but was later rebranded as the Gold Coast Sevens. The Gold Coast attendances for the 2013 and 2014 events were lower than expected, and in March 2015 the ARU announced that Sydney would host the event for the next four years from the 2015–16 season. With the closure and rebuilding of Sydney Football Stadium, both men's and women's events for the Sydney Sevens tournament were moved to

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in 2019, and

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for 2020.

Results

Invitational tournament

World Rugby Sevens Series

Team records

Summary of results in the Australian leg of the World Rugby Sevens Series: Updated to the 2020 tournament Notes:

References

External links

Official websiteAdelaide IRB Sevens profile on UR7s.com
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