# 2017 South Africa Sevens

The 2017 South Africa Sevens was the second tournament within the 2017–18 World Rugby Sevens Series and the nineteenth edition of the South Africa Sevens. It was held over the weekend of 9–10 December 2017 at Cape Town Stadium in Cape Town, South Africa.

## Format

The teams were drawn into four pools of four teams each. Each team played every other team in their pool once. The top two teams from each pool advanced to the Cup brackets where teams competed for the Gold, Silver, and Bronze medals. The bottom two teams from each group went to the playoffs in the Challenge Trophy brackets.

## Teams

Fifteen core teams are participating in the tournament along with one invited team, the winner of the 2017 Africa Cup Sevens, Uganda:
* Argentina
* Australia
* Canada
* England
* Fiji
* France
* Kenya
* New Zealand
* Russia
* Samoa
* Scotland
* South Africa
* Spain
* Uganda
* United States
* Wales

## Pool stage

All times in South African Standard Time (UTC+2:00)

### Pool A

| Team | Pld | W | D | L | PF | PA | PD | Pts |
| South Africa | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 97 | 17 | +80 | 9 |
| France | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 47 | 50 | –3 | 7 |
| Kenya | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 55 | 47 | +8 | 5 |
| Russia | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 10 | 95 | –85 | 3 |

### Pool B

| Team | Pld | W | D | L | PF | PA | PD | Pts |
| United States | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 79 | 19 | +60 | 9 |
| New Zealand | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 85 | 34 | +51 | 7 |
| Australia | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 62 | 78 | –16 | 5 |
| Spain | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 17 | 112 | –95 | 3 |

### Pool C

| Team | Pld | W | D | L | PF | PA | PD | Pts |
| England | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 72 | 14 | +58 | 9 |
| Argentina | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 69 | 45 | +24 | 7 |
| Scotland | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 66 | 31 | +35 | 5 |
| Uganda | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 124 | –117 | 3 |

### Pool D

| Team | Pld | W | D | L | PF | PA | PD | Pts |
| Canada | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 70 | 47 | +23 | 7 |
| Fiji | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 80 | 43 | +37 | 7 |
| Wales | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 45 | 71 | –26 | 5 |
| Samoa | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 38 | 72 | –34 | 5 |

## Knockout stage
### 13th place

| Semi-finals | Semi-finals | 13th Place Final | 13th Place Final |
| 10 December 2017 – 13:57 – Cape Town | 10 December 2017 – 13:57 – Cape Town |
| Kenya | 33 |
| Kenya | 33 | 10 December 2017 – 17:43 – Cape Town | 10 December 2017 – 17:43 – Cape Town |
| Scotland | 12 | 10 December 2017 – 17:43 – Cape Town | 10 December 2017 – 17:43 – Cape Town |
| Scotland | 12 | Kenya | 24 |
| 10 December 2017 – 14:19 – Cape Town | 10 December 2017 – 14:19 – Cape Town | | Kenya | 24 |
| 10 December 2017 – 14:19 – Cape Town | 10 December 2017 – 14:19 – Cape Town | Uganda | 14 |
| Russia | 19 | Uganda | 14 |
| Uganda | 28 | | |
Matches :

### Challenge Trophy

| Quarter-finals | Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Semi-finals | | Challenge Trophy Final | Challenge Trophy Final |
| 10 December 2017 – 10:36 – Cape Town | 10 December 2017 – 10:36 – Cape Town | | | |
| Kenya | 15 | | | |
| Kenya | 15 | 10 December 2017 – 14:41 – Cape Town | 10 December 2017 – 14:41 – Cape Town | | |
| Samoa | 19 | 10 December 2017 – 14:41 – Cape Town | 10 December 2017 – 14:41 – Cape Town | |
| Samoa | 19 | Samoa | 0 | |
| 10 December 2017 – 10:58 – Cape Town | 10 December 2017 – 10:58 – Cape Town | | Samoa | 0 | |
| 10 December 2017 – 10:58 – Cape Town | 10 December 2017 – 10:58 – Cape Town | Spain | 24 | |
| Scotland | 7 | Spain | 24 | |
| Scotland | 7 | | | | 10 December 2017 – 18:05 – Cape Town | 10 December 2017 – 18:05 – Cape Town |
| Spain | 22 | | | | 10 December 2017 – 18:05 – Cape Town | 10 December 2017 – 18:05 – Cape Town |
| Spain | 22 | | | | Spain | 7 |
| 10 December 2017 – 11:20 – Cape Town | 10 December 2017 – 11:20 – Cape Town | | | | | Spain | 7 |
| 10 December 2017 – 11:20 – Cape Town | 10 December 2017 – 11:20 – Cape Town | | | | Australia | 26 |
| Wales | 21 | | | | Australia | 26 |
| Wales | 21 | 10 December 2017 – 15:03 – Cape Town | 10 December 2017 – 15:03 – Cape Town | | | |
| Russia | 12 | 10 December 2017 – 15:03 – Cape Town | 10 December 2017 – 15:03 – Cape Town | | | |
| Russia | 12 | Wales | 5 | | | |
| 10 December 2017 – 11:42 – Cape Town | 10 December 2017 – 11:42 – Cape Town | | Wales | 5 | | | |
| 10 December 2017 – 11:42 – Cape Town | 10 December 2017 – 11:42 – Cape Town | Australia | 42 | |
| Australia | 47 | Australia | 42 | |
| Uganda | 12 | | | |
Matches :

### 5th place

| Semi-finals | Semi-finals | 5th Place Final | 5th Place Final |
| 10 December 2017 – 15:50 – Cape Town | 10 December 2017 – 15:50 – Cape Town |
| Fiji | 19 |
| Fiji | 19 | 10 December 2017 – 18:36 – Cape Town | 10 December 2017 – 18:36 – Cape Town |
| England | 12 | 10 December 2017 – 18:36 – Cape Town | 10 December 2017 – 18:36 – Cape Town |
| England | 12 | Fiji | 26 |
| 10 December 2017 – 16:12 – Cape Town | 10 December 2017 – 16:12 – Cape Town | | Fiji | 26 |
| 10 December 2017 – 16:12 – Cape Town | 10 December 2017 – 16:12 – Cape Town | United States | 12 |
| France | 12 | United States | 12 |
| United States | 29 | | |
Matches :

### Cup

| Quarter-finals | Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Semi-finals | | Cup Final | Cup Final |
| 10 December 2017 – 12:04 – Cape Town | 10 December 2017 – 12:04 – Cape Town | | | |
| South Africa | 31 | | | |
| South Africa | 31 | 10 December 2017 – 16:34 – Cape Town | 10 December 2017 – 16:34 – Cape Town | | |
| Fiji | 26 | 10 December 2017 – 16:34 – Cape Town | 10 December 2017 – 16:34 – Cape Town | |
| Fiji | 26 | South Africa | 12 | |
| 10 December 2017 – 12:26 – Cape Town | 10 December 2017 – 12:26 – Cape Town | | South Africa | 12 | |
| 10 December 2017 – 12:26 – Cape Town | 10 December 2017 – 12:26 – Cape Town | New Zealand | 19 | |
| England | 12 | New Zealand | 19 | |
| England | 12 | | | | 10 December 2017 – 19:44 – Cape Town | 10 December 2017 – 19:44 – Cape Town |
| New Zealand | 17 | | | | 10 December 2017 – 19:44 – Cape Town | 10 December 2017 – 19:44 – Cape Town |
| New Zealand | 17 | | | | New Zealand | 38 |
| 10 December 2017 – 12:48 – Cape Town | 10 December 2017 – 12:48 – Cape Town | | | | | New Zealand | 38 |
| 10 December 2017 – 12:48 – Cape Town | 10 December 2017 – 12:48 – Cape Town | | | | Argentina | 14 |
| Canada | 35 | | | | Argentina | 14 |
| Canada | 35 | 10 December 2017 – 16:56 – Cape Town | 10 December 2017 – 16:56 – Cape Town | | | |
| France | 7 | 10 December 2017 – 16:56 – Cape Town | 10 December 2017 – 16:56 – Cape Town | | | |
| France | 7 | Canada | 12 | | | |
| 10 December 2017 – 13:10 – Cape Town | 10 December 2017 – 13:10 – Cape Town | | Canada | 12 | | | |
| 10 December 2017 – 13:10 – Cape Town | 10 December 2017 – 13:10 – Cape Town | Argentina | 14 | | Bronze Medal Match | Bronze Medal Match |
| United States | 12 | Argentina | 14 | | Bronze Medal Match | Bronze Medal Match |
| United States | 12 | | | | 10 December 2017 – 19:18 – Cape Town | 10 December 2017 – 19:18 – Cape Town |
| Argentina | 28 | | | | 10 December 2017 – 19:18 – Cape Town | 10 December 2017 – 19:18 – Cape Town |
| Argentina | 28 | | | | South Africa | 19 |
| | | | | | Canada | 17 |
Matches :

## Tournament placings

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

## Players
### Scoring leaders

Source: World Rugby

### Dream Team

The following seven players were selected to the tournament Dream Team at the conclusion of the tournament:
| Forwards | Backs |
| Mike Fuailefau Philip Snyman Tim Mikkelson | Justin Douglas Amenoni Nasilasila Vilimoni Koroi Rodrigo Etchart |