2019–20 World Rugby Women's Sevens Series


The 2019–20 World Rugby Women's Sevens Series is the eighth edition of the global circuit for women's national rugby sevens teams, organised by World Rugby.
In March 2020, World Rugby postponed all remaining tournaments in the series due to the coronavirus pandemic. The events in Langford and Paris were postponed provisionally until September, preceding the Hong Kong event previously postponed until October.

Format

Twelve nations competed at each event, drawn into three pools of four teams. The top-placed teams after the pool matches at each tournament played off for a Cup, with gold, silver and bronze medals also awarded to the first three teams. The winner of the series was determined by the overall points standings gained across all events in the season.

Teams

The eleven "core teams" qualified to participate in all series events for 2019–20 are:
Brazil was promoted to core team status after winning the 2019–20 World Series qualifier held in Hong Kong, replacing China who were relegated after finishing as the lowest-placed core team in 2018–19.

Tour venues

Three new legs in South Africa, New Zealand, and Hong Kong were added to the women's circuit for 2019–20. The Japan Women's Sevens was not part of the series as the Olympic Sevens was hosted in Tokyo in 2020, so there were eight women's events in the 2019–20 series. All but two of these were hosted as combined sevens events with their corresponding tournaments from the men's World Series.
LegStadiumCityDatesWinner
United StatesInfinity ParkGlendale 5–6 October 2019
The SevensDubai5–7 December 2019
Cape Town StadiumCape Town13–15 December 2019
Waikato StadiumHamilton25–26 January 2020
Bankwest StadiumSydney1–2 February 2020
Westhills StadiumLangford TBC September 2020
Stade Jean-BouinParisTBC September 2020
Hong Kong StadiumHong Kong16–18 October 2020

The Hong Kong event was originally scheduled to be played in April 2020 but was postponed due to health concerns relating to the COVID-19 pandemic and rescheduled to October 2020.

Standings

Official standings for the 2019–20 series:
Source:

Placings summary

Tallies of top four tournament placings during the 2019–20 series, by team:
Team Gold Silver BronzeFourthTotal
4–1–5
1–1–2
–31–4
–2125
––134
Totals555520

Tournaments

Glendale

EventWinnersScoreFinalistsSemifinalists
Cup'26–7
5th Place'12–7
Challenge Trophy36–14

Dubai*

EventWinnersScoreFinalistsSemifinalists
Cup'17–14
9th Place'26–21-
11th Place14-12-

Cape Town*

EventWinnersScoreFinalistsSemifinalists
Cup'17–7
9th Place'19–7-
11th Place26-7-

* 5th Place and Challenge Trophy not contested

Players

Tries scored

Points scored

Updated:

Awards

Tour LegPlayerPoints
Glendale 63
Dubai 78
Cape Town 58
Hamilton
Sydney
Hong Kong
Langford
Paris

PlayerTotal
1 10221361163
2 2915869159
3 1816777157
4 3412759143
5 1763048143
6 449748139
7 2662251139
8 2115753133
9 3561247124
10 2410460122

Updated: