The World Rugby Sevens Player of the Year is awarded by

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each year. It was first awarded in 2004. The award is based in large part on the player’s performance over the course of 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 ...

, along with other Sevens tournaments during the year. From 2004 until 2008 the award was called the IRB International Sevens Player of the Year. From 2009 until 2013, it was the IRB Sevens Player of the Year. Since 2014, following the International Rugby Board becoming World Rugby, the award has been titled the World Rugby Sevens Player of the Year. Antoine Dupont has won the World Rugby Men's Sevens Player of the Year award in 2024 and the

World Rugby Men's 15s Player of the Year The World Rugby Men's 15s Player of the Year is an award presented annually by World Rugby at the World Rugby Awards. It is given to honour "the achievements of those involved at the highest level of the world game on the field". First presente ...

in 2021. He is the first and only rugby player ever to have won both the Men’s Sevens and the Men’s 15s World Rugby Player of the Year awards in one's career.

List of winners

Winners with multiple nominations

Explanatory notes

This section provides additional detail to the table above regarding the team and player accomplishments that season that helped the player win the Sevens Player of the Year award. * 2010: Samoa won its first ever World Series title * 2013:

Tim Mikkelson Timothy John Mikkelson (born 13 August 1986) is a New Zealand professional rugby union player who plays as a forward for the New Zealand national sevens team. International career Mikkelson plays for the New Zealand national rugby sevens t ...

was recognized as the Player of the Tournament at the

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. * 2014: Samisoni Viriviri led all players in tries scored with 52. * 2015: Werner Kok led all players in tackles made. * 2016: Seabelo Senatla led all players in tries scored with 66. * 2017:

Perry Baker Perry Baker (born June 29, 1986) is an American former rugby union player who played for the United States national rugby sevens team. He is a two-time World Rugby Sevens Player of the Year. At the time of his retirement, with 293 tries Baker r ...

led the World Series in several statistical categories — 57 tries, 76 clean breaks, and 285 points. * 2018: Baker was the World Series leader in tries with 37 before missing the last three rounds to injury, returning to help the USA to its best-ever finish of sixth at the 2018 Rugby World Cup Sevens. * 2019: Jerry Tuwai was fifth in clean breaks with 34. * 2021: Marcos Moneta lead Argentina to their first Rugby Bronze Olympic Medal and he ended being the tryman at that tournament. At the olympics he scored two tries in the memorable match between Argentina and South Africa where Gaston Revol was expelled and Argentina where playing with 6 players. * 2022: Terry Kennedy led Ireland to a bronze medal at the Rugby World Cup Sevens.

Other World Rugby Awards

* World Rugby Team of the Year *

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World Rugby Junior Player of the Year The World Rugby Junior Player of the Year is an accolade awarded annually by the World Rugby. It is awarded to the player of the tournament in that year's World Rugby Under 20 Championship. It replaces the now defunct IRB International U21 Player o ...

* World Rugby Women’s 15s Player of the Year * World Rugby Women's Sevens Player of the Year * IRB Spirit of Rugby Award *

Vernon Pugh Award for Distinguished Service The Vernon Pugh Award for Distinguished Service, previously called the IRB Distinguished Service Award, is awarded by World Rugby at the World Rugby Awards. It has been awarded annually since 2001. It honours an individual, Union or group, male o ...

* World Rugby Referee Award * IRB Development Award * IRB Chairman's Award

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