The France Women's Sevens is an annual women's

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tournament, and was one of the stops on the

World Rugby Women's Sevens Series The World Rugby SVNS, known as the HSBC SVNS for Naming rights, sponsorship reasons, is a series of international rugby sevens tournaments for women's national teams run by World Rugby. The inaugural series was held in 2012–13 as the successo ...

. France joined in the fourth year of the Series. As of the current 2019–20 season, the tournament is held at Stade Jean-Bouin in

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, having returned to that venue after one edition at

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. It had originally been held in

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, and later moved to Stade Jean-Bouin.

History

The tournament was launched in 2016 as the last stage of the annual World Rugby Women's Sevens Series, with first two editions played at the Gabriel-Montpied stadium in Clermont-Ferrand. In 2018 the event moved to Jean-Bouin stadium in Paris, bringing together the men's and women's France Sevens at the same venue in a combined tournament. However, for the 2019 edition, the French Rugby Federation and World Rugby chose to host separate men's and women's events again. This was done to improve the visibility of the women's competition as well as to avoid the possible unavailability of the Jean-Bouin stadium due to home matches hosted by the

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club. The 2019 France Women's Sevens was therefore relocated to

in Biarritz. The tournament would return to Paris for 2019–20 and beyond.

Champions

Team summary

Notes

References

World Rugby Women's Sevens Series tournaments International women's rugby union competitions hosted by France Recurring sporting events established in 2016 2016 establishments in France {{rugbyunion-stub

History

Champions

Team summary

See also

Notes

References