The 2019 Japan Women's Sevens was the fourth tournament within the

2018–19 World Rugby Women's Sevens Series The 2018–19 World Rugby Women's Sevens Series was the seventh edition of the global circuit for women's national rugby sevens teams, organised by World Rugby. Six tournament events were scheduled on the 2018–19 circuit with twelve teams co ...

and the third edition of the

Japan Women's Sevens The Japan Women's Sevens was an annual women's rugby sevens tournament, it was previously 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 was play ...

. It was held over the weekend of 20–21 April 2019 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 played in the tournament along with one invitational team, 2018 Asia Rugby Women's Sevens Series winner Japan:

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

References

External links

World Rugby info
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