# 2017 London Sevens

The 2017 London Sevens was the tenth and final event of the 2016–17 World Rugby Sevens Series and the seventeenth edition of the London Sevens. The tournament was held over the weekend of 20–21 May 2017 at Twickenham in London.
This was the first tournament in the history of the series with all semifinalists from the Northern Hemisphere, as Scotland, England, Canada, and the United States took out the top four placings. Scotland won the tournament, beating England 12–7 in the final. The USA's Perry Baker was the leading try scorer, notching eight tries over the weekend.

## Format

The teams were drawn into four pools of four teams each. Each team played all the others in their pool once. The top two teams from each pool advanced to the Cup quarter finals. The bottom two teams from each group advanced to the Challenge Trophy quarter finals.

## Teams

The sixteen participating teams for the tournament were:
* Argentina
* Australia
* Canada
* England
* Fiji
* France
* Japan
* Kenya
* New Zealand
* Russia
* Samoa
* Scotland
* Spain
* South Africa
* United States
* Wales

## Pool stages
### Pool A

| Team | Pld | W | D | L | PF | PA | PD | Pts |
| United States | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 83 | 40 | +43 | 7 |
| South Africa | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 36 | 44 | -8 | 7 |
| Kenya | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 38 | 76 | -38 | 5 |
| Wales | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 55 | 52 | +3 | 5 |
* 20 May 2017 10:58
| United States | 12–28 | Wales |
* Twickenham Stadium, London
* 20 May 2017 11:20
| South Africa | 12–10 | Kenya |
* Twickenham Stadium, London
* 20 May 2017 14:04
| United States | 47–0 | Kenya |
* Twickenham Stadium, London
* 20 May 2017 14:26
| South Africa | 12–10 | Wales |
* Twickenham Stadium, London
* 20 May 2017 17:10
| Wales | 17–28 | Kenya |
* Twickenham Stadium, London
* 20 May 2017 17:32
| South Africa | 12–24 | United States |
* Twickenham Stadium, London

### Pool B

| Team | Pld | W | D | L | PF | PA | PD | Pts |
| Argentina | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 80 | 52 | +28 | 7 |
| Scotland | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 59 | 42 | +16 | 7 |
| France | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 49 | 67 | -17 | 7 |
| Russia | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 46 | 73 | -27 | 3 |
* 20 May 2017 10:14
| France | 7–35 | Argentina |
* Twickenham Stadium, London
* 20 May 2017 10:36
| Scotland | 21–7 | Russia |
* Twickenham Stadium, London
* 20 May 2017 13:20
| France | 26–20 | Russia |
* Twickenham Stadium, London
* 20 May 2017 13:42
| Scotland | 26–19 | Argentina |
* Twickenham Stadium, London
* 20 May 2017 16:26
| Argentina | 26–19 | Russia |
* Twickenham Stadium, London
* 20 May 2017 16:48
| Scotland | 12-16 | France |
* Twickenham Stadium, London

### Pool C

| Team | Pld | W | D | L | PF | PA | PD | Pts |
| New Zealand | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 79 | 42 | +37 | 9 |
| Canada | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 64 | 52 | +12 | 7 |
| Fiji | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 101 | 54 | +47 | 5 |
| Japan | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 26 | 122 | -96 | 3 |
* 20 May 2017 9:30
| Fiji | 19–22 | Canada |
* Twickenham Stadium, London
* 20 May 2017 9:52
| New Zealand | 33–7 | Japan |
* Twickenham Stadium, London
* 20 May 2017 12:36
| Fiji | 61–5 | Japan |
* Twickenham Stadium, London
* 20 May 2017 12:58
| New Zealand | 19–14 | Canada |
* Twickenham Stadium, London
* 20 May 2017 15:42
| Canada | 28–14 | Japan |
* Twickenham Stadium, London
* 20 May 2017 16:04
| New Zealand | 27–21 | Fiji |
* Twickenham Stadium, London

### Pool D

| Team | Pld | W | D | L | PF | PA | PD | Pts |
| England | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 71 | 38 | +33 | 9 |
| Australia | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 96 | 24 | +72 | 7 |
| Samoa | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 64 | 65 | -1 | 5 |
| Spain | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 14 | 118 | -104 | 3 |
* 20 May 2017 11:42
| Samoa | 5–34 | Australia |
* Twickenham Stadium, London
* 20 May 2017 12:04
| England | 28–7 | Spain |
* Twickenham Stadium, London
* 20 May 2017 14:48
| Samoa | 40–7 | Spain |
* Twickenham Stadium, London
* 20 May 2017 15:10
| England | 19–12 | Australia |
* Twickenham Stadium, London
* 20 May 2017 17:54
| Australia | 50–0 | Spain |
* Twickenham Stadium, London
* 20 May 2017 18:16
| England | 24–19 | Samoa |
* Twickenham Stadium, London

## Knockout stage
### 13th Place

| Semi-finals | Semi-finals | 13th Place Final | 13th Place Final |
| 21 May 2017 – 12:36 – Twickenham Stadium | 21 May 2017 – 12:36 – Twickenham Stadium |
| Spain | 5 |
| Spain | 5 | 21 May 2017 – 16:07 – Twickenham Stadium | 21 May 2017 – 16:07 – Twickenham Stadium |
| Russia | 38 | 21 May 2017 – 16:07 – Twickenham Stadium | 21 May 2017 – 16:07 – Twickenham Stadium |
| Russia | 38 | Russia | 19 |
| 21 May 2017 – 12:58 – Twickenham Stadium | 21 May 2017 – 12:58 – Twickenham Stadium | | Russia | 19 |
| 21 May 2017 – 12:58 – Twickenham Stadium | 21 May 2017 – 12:58 – Twickenham Stadium | Samoa | 24 |
| Samoa | 33 | Samoa | 24 |
| Japan | 7 | | |

### Challenge Trophy

| Quarter-finals | Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Semi-finals | | Challenge Thophy Final | Challenge Thophy Final |
| 21 May 2017 – 9:30 – Twickenham Stadium | 21 May 2017 – 9:30 – Twickenham Stadium | | | |
| Kenya | 33 | | | |
| Kenya | 33 | 21 May 2017 – 13:20 – Twickenham Stadium | 21 May 2017 – 13:20 – Twickenham Stadium | | |
| Spain | 7 | 21 May 2017 – 13:20 – Twickenham Stadium | 21 May 2017 – 13:20 – Twickenham Stadium | |
| Spain | 7 | Kenya | 5 | |
| 21 May 2017 – 9:52 – Twickenham Stadium | 21 May 2017 – 9:52 – Twickenham Stadium | | Kenya | 5 | |
| 21 May 2017 – 9:52 – Twickenham Stadium | 21 May 2017 – 9:52 – Twickenham Stadium | Fiji | 45 | |
| Fiji | 31 | Fiji | 45 | |
| Fiji | 31 | | | | 21 May 2017 – 16:32 – Twickenham Stadium | 21 May 2017 – 16:32 – Twickenham Stadium |
| Russia | 5 | | | | 21 May 2017 – 16:32 – Twickenham Stadium | 21 May 2017 – 16:32 – Twickenham Stadium |
| Russia | 5 | | | | Fiji | 26 |
| 21 May 2017 – 10:14 – Twickenham Stadium | 21 May 2017 – 10:14 – Twickenham Stadium | | | | | Fiji | 26 |
| 21 May 2017 – 10:14 – Twickenham Stadium | 21 May 2017 – 10:14 – Twickenham Stadium | | | | Wales | 14 |
| Samoa | 21 | | | | Wales | 14 |
| Samoa | 21 | 21 May 2017 – 13:42 – Twickenham Stadium | 21 May 2017 – 13:42 – Twickenham Stadium | | | |
| Wales | 29 | 21 May 2017 – 13:42 – Twickenham Stadium | 21 May 2017 – 13:42 – Twickenham Stadium | | | |
| Wales | 29 | Wales | 26 | | | |
| 21 May 2017 – 10:36 – Twickenham Stadium | 21 May 2017 – 10:36 – Twickenham Stadium | | Wales | 26 | | | |
| 21 May 2017 – 10:36 – Twickenham Stadium | 21 May 2017 – 10:36 – Twickenham Stadium | France | 17 | |
| France | 22 | France | 17 | |
| Japan | 5 | | | |

### 5th place

| Semi-finals | Semi-finals | 5th Place Final | 5th Place Final |
| 21 May 2017 – 14:04 – Twickenham Stadium | 21 May 2017 – 14:04 – Twickenham Stadium |
| Australia | 40 |
| Australia | 40 | 21 May 2017 – 17:07 – Twickenham Stadium | 21 May 2017 – 17:07 – Twickenham Stadium |
| New Zealand | 7 | 21 May 2017 – 17:07 – Twickenham Stadium | 21 May 2017 – 17:07 – Twickenham Stadium |
| New Zealand | 7 | Australia | 17 |
| 21 May 2017 – 14:26 – Twickenham Stadium | 21 May 2017 – 14:26 – Twickenham Stadium | | Australia | 17 |
| 21 May 2017 – 14:26 – Twickenham Stadium | 21 May 2017 – 14:26 – Twickenham Stadium | South Africa | 28 |
| South Africa | 28 | South Africa | 28 |
| Argentina | 7 | | |

### Cup

| Quarter-finals | Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Semi-finals | | Cup Final | Cup Final |
| 21 May 2017 – 10:58 – Twickenham Stadium | 21 May 2017 – 10:58 – Twickenham Stadium | | | |
| United States | 31 | | | |
| United States | 31 | 21 May 2017 – 14:48 – Twickenham Stadium | 21 May 2017 – 14:48 – Twickenham Stadium | | |
| Australia | 14 | 21 May 2017 – 14:48 – Twickenham Stadium | 21 May 2017 – 14:48 – Twickenham Stadium | |
| Australia | 14 | United States | 14 | |
| 21 May 2017 – 11:20 – Twickenham Stadium | 21 May 2017 – 11:20 – Twickenham Stadium | | United States | 14 | |
| 21 May 2017 – 11:20 – Twickenham Stadium | 21 May 2017 – 11:20 – Twickenham Stadium | Scotland | 21 | |
| New Zealand | 21 | Scotland | 21 | |
| New Zealand | 21 | | | | 21 May 2017 – 17:57 – Twickenham Stadium | 21 May 2017 – 17:57 – Twickenham Stadium |
| Scotland | 24 | | | | 21 May 2017 – 17:57 – Twickenham Stadium | 21 May 2017 – 17:57 – Twickenham Stadium |
| Scotland | 24 | | | | Scotland | 12 |
| 21 May 2017 – 11:42 – Twickenham Stadium | 21 May 2017 – 11:42 – Twickenham Stadium | | | | | Scotland | 12 |
| 21 May 2017 – 11:42 – Twickenham Stadium | 21 May 2017 – 11:42 – Twickenham Stadium | | | | England | 7 |
| England | 17 | | | | England | 7 |
| England | 17 | 21 May 2017 – 15:10 – Twickenham Stadium | 21 May 2017 – 15:10 – Twickenham Stadium | | | |
| South Africa | 12 | 21 May 2017 – 15:10 – Twickenham Stadium | 21 May 2017 – 15:10 – Twickenham Stadium | | | |
| South Africa | 12 | England | 24 | | | |
| 21 May 2017 – 12:04 – Twickenham Stadium | 21 May 2017 – 12:04 – Twickenham Stadium | | England | 24 | | | |
| 21 May 2017 – 12:04 – Twickenham Stadium | 21 May 2017 – 12:04 – Twickenham Stadium | Canada | 5 | | Bronze Medal Match | Bronze Medal Match |
| Argentina | 7 | Canada | 5 | | Bronze Medal Match | Bronze Medal Match |
| Argentina | 7 | | | | 21 May 2017 – 17:32 – Twickenham Stadium | 21 May 2017 – 17:32 – Twickenham Stadium |
| Canada | 28 | | | | 21 May 2017 – 17:32 – Twickenham Stadium | 21 May 2017 – 17:32 – Twickenham Stadium |
| Canada | 28 | | | | United States | 19 |
| | | | | | Canada | 22 |

## Tournament placings

| Place | Team | Points |
| | Scotland | 22 |
| | England | 19 |
| | Canada | 17 |
| 4 | United States | 15 |
| 5 | South Africa | 13 |
| 6 | Australia | 12 |
| 7 | New Zealand | 10 |
| 7 | Argentina | 10 |
| Place | Team | Points |
| 9 | Fiji | 8 |
| 10 | Wales | 7 |
| 11 | France | 5 |
| 11 | Kenya | 5 |
| 13 | Samoa | 3 |
| 14 | Russia | 2 |
| 15 | Spain | 1 |
| 15 | Japan | 1 |
Source: World Rugby (archived)