The 2018 Japan Women's Sevens was the third tournament within the

2017–18 World Rugby Women's Sevens Series The 2017–18 World Rugby Women's Sevens Series was the sixth edition of the global circuit for women's national rugby sevens teams, organised by World Rugby. There were five tournament events scheduled on the 2017–18 circuit and twelve tea ...

and the second edition of the

Japan Women's Sevens The Japan Women's Sevens is an annual women's rugby sevens tournament, currently hosted in Kitakyushu as one of the stops on the World Rugby Women's Sevens Series. Japan joined for the fifth edition of the series. The tournament is played at the ...

to be played in the series. It was held over the weekend of 21–22 April 2018 at

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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 runner-up of the 2017 Asia Rugby Women's Sevens Series, China:

Pool stage

All times in

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( UTC+09:00)

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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World Rugby

Dream Team

The following seven players were selected to the tournament Dream Team at the conclusion of the tournament:

References

External links

Tournament Page
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