The 2022 World Rugby Sevens Challenger Series – Men's tour was the second season of the
second-tier global
rugby sevens
Rugby sevens (commonly known simply as sevens, and originally seven-a-side rugby) is a variant of rugby union in which teams are made up of seven players playing seven-minute halves, instead of the usual 15 players playing 40-minute halves. R ...
competition for men's national teams. It was played as a single tournament on 12–14 August 2022 in
Santiago
Santiago (, ; ), also known as Santiago de Chile (), is the capital and largest city of Chile and one of the largest cities in the Americas. It is located in the country's central valley and is the center of the Santiago Metropolitan Regi ...
, Chile at the
Estadio Santa Laura
Estadio Santa Laura is a football stadium in Independencia, Santiago, Chile. It is the home stadium of Unión Española. The stadium holds 19,887 people and was built in 1922. It is a multi-use stadium, also used for concerts.
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with twelve teams competing.
The tournament was the qualifying event for the
World Rugby Sevens Series
The SVNS, known as the HSBC SVNS for sponsorship reasons, 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 ...
, with the winner gaining promotion as a core team for the 2022–23 season.
The tournament was won by , defeating by 19–5 in the final, with finishing in third place.
Teams and venue
Pool stage
All times are
CLST, Chile Summer Time: (
UTC-3).
Pool A
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Pool B
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Pool C
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Ranking of third-placed teams
Knockout stage
9th–12th place bracket
9th–12th place Semi-finals
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11th place Final
9th place Final
5th–8th place bracket
5th–8th place Semi-finals
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7th place Final
5th place Final
Cup bracket
Cup Quarter-finals
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Cup Semi-finals
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Third place play-off
Cup Final
Placings
The final placings are listed below, the winner being promoted as a core team for the 2022–23 World Rugby Sevens Series
The 2022–23 World Rugby Sevens Series was the 24th annual series of rugby sevens tournaments for men's national teams. The World Rugby Sevens Series, Sevens Series has been run by World Rugby since 1999. This series doubled as a qualifier for th ...
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Key:
Core team for the World Rugby Sevens Series
The SVNS, known as the HSBC SVNS for sponsorship reasons, 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 ...
in 2022–23.
See also
* 2022 World Rugby Sevens Challenger Series – Women's tour
The 2022 World Rugby Sevens Challenger Series – Women's tour was the inaugural season of the World Rugby Sevens Challenger Series, second-tier global competition for women's national rugby sevens teams. It was played as a single tournament on 1 ...
References
External links
Official site
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World Rugby Sevens Challenger Series
The World Rugby Sevens Challenger (formerly the World Rugby Sevens Challenger Series) is an annual series of rugby sevens tournaments for national teams run by World Rugby that includes men's and women's events. Sponsored by banking group HSBC, i ...
World Rugby Sevens
World Rugby Sevens Challenger Series