Papua New Guinea national rugby sevens team
The Papua New Guinea national rugby sevens team competes in the Oceania Sevens, where they finished third in 2009, and fourth in 2010, 2015 and 2016.
The team has also entered selected World Rugby Sevens Series tournaments as an invited team. The team has been invited to the New Zealand Sevens in 2000, 2001, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2015, 2017 and 2018, and to the Australian Sevens in 2000, 2009/10, 2010/11, 2011/12, 2017 and 2018. The team has also been invited at the 2000 Fiji Sevens and 2000 Tokyo Sevens. At the 2011 Gold Coast Sevens, PNG defeated Niue and Japan to take 13th place. At the 2018 Hamilton Sevens, the team defeated Russia and France to take 11th place.
Papua New Guinea has also played the Hong Kong Sevens World Series qualifier. In the 2015 edition, they went to the semifinals, where they lost to Russia. In 2016 they lost all matches in the group phase. In 2017 they reached the semifinals.
PNG qualified for the 2010 Commonwealth Games. Papua New Guinea made its first appearance at the Rugby World Cup Sevens in 2018, following its fifth place finish at the 2017 Oceania Sevens Championship.
Tournament history
Rugby World Cup Sevens
Commonwealth Games
Sevens World Series
New Zealand Sevens
2007–08- 22–0 Papua New Guinea
- 41–0 Papua New Guinea
- 27–21 Papua New Guinea
- 24–17 Papua New Guinea
- 38–7 Papua New Guinea
- Samoa 26–0 Papua New Guinea
- 22–7 Papua New Guinea
- 17–12 Papua New Guinea
- 19–12 Papua New Guinea
- 26–19 Papua New Guinea
- 24–10 Papua New Guinea
- England 64–0 Papua New Guinea
- Scotland 34–12 Papua New Guinea
- Canada 33–10 Papua New Guinea
- 12–15 Papua New Guinea
- Tonga 19–14 Papua New Guinea
- 14 – 10 Papua New Guinea
- New Zealand 45 – 0 Papua New Guinea
- Scotland 12 – 14 Papua New Guinea
- Papua New Guinea 10-22 Cook Islands
- 52-12 Papua New Guinea
- England 29 – 0 Papua New Guinea
- New Zealand 38 – 7 Papua New Guinea
- Canada 41 – 0 Papua New Guinea
- Wales 41 – 0 Papua New Guinea
- Samoa 47 – 5 Papua New Guinea
- England 40 – 0 Papua New Guinea
- Kenya 47 – 5 Papua New Guinea
- Argentina 41 – 14 Papua New Guinea
- Wales 29 – 7 Papua New Guinea
- Samoa 35 – 7 Papua New Guinea
- South Africa 36 – 5 Papua New Guinea
- England 27 – 0 Papua New Guinea
- Papua New Guinea 33 – 7 Russia
- Papua New Guinea 35 – 0 France
- United States 42 – 12 Papua New Guinea
Australia Sevens
- Kenya 27 - 7 Papua New Guinea
- Fiji 41 - 0 Papua New Guinea
- Wales 64 - 5 Papua New Guinea
- England 47 - 0 Papua New Guinea
- Tonga 45 - 0 Papua New Guinea
- Argentina 45–5 Papua New Guinea
- England 45–12 Papua New Guinea
- Scotland 19–14 Papua New Guinea
- Kenya 26–17 Papua New Guinea
- Tonga 24–19 Papua New Guinea
- Argentina 33 – 0 Papua New Guinea
- Samoa 38 – 0 Papua New Guinea
- France 33 – 5 Papua New Guinea
- United States 24 – 5 Papua New Guinea
- Papua New Guinea 38 – 0 Niue
- Papua New Guinea 31 – 19 Japan
- Scotland 26 – 12 Papua New Guinea
- New Zealand 31 – 7 Papua New Guinea
- Australia 26 – 7 Papua New Guinea
- France 17 – 0 Papua New Guinea
- Canada 33 – 20 Papua New Guinea
- South Africa 50 – 0 Papua New Guinea
- England 35 – 5 Papua New Guinea
- Papua New Guinea 21 – 17 Spain
- Wales 24 – 5 Papua New Guinea
- Canada 31 – 14 Papua New Guinea
Commonwealth Games
2010 Commonwealth Games
Group C
11 October 2010Bowl Quarter Final
Bowl Semi Final
Bowl Final
Current squad
Squad at 2017 Oceania Sevens Championship:- Gairo KAPANA
- Dean MANALE
- Eugene TOKAVAI
- Arthur Apelis CLEMENT
- Wesley VALI
- William TIRANG
- Samuel MALAMBES
- Henry KALUA
- Himah ALU
- Isaac AQUILA
- Freddy ROVA
- Patrick TATUT Jnr
Previous squads
| 2015 Wellington Sevens Squad |
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