# 2016 Dubai Women's Sevens

The 2016 Dubai Women's Sevens was the opening tournament of the 2016–17 World Rugby Women's Sevens Series. It was held on 1–2 December 2016 at The Sevens Stadium in Dubai, and was the 5th edition of the Women's Dubai Sevens as part of the World Rugby Women's Sevens Series. The defending champions Australia started their first game against the invited South Africans. The opening game of the Dubai tournament matched Spain up against England.
Bill Beaumont, the World Rugby Chairman, said: "With the excitement of the Olympic Games still fresh in people's memories, anticipation has never been higher ahead of a new HSBC World Rugby Women's Sevens Series season kicking off".

## Format

The teams are drawn into three pools of four teams each. Each team plays every other team in their pool once. The top two teams from each pool advance to the Cup/Plate brackets while the top 2 third place teams also compete in the Cup/Plate. The other teams from each group play-off for the Challenge Trophy.

## Teams

The participating teams include:
* Australia
* Canada
* England
* Fiji
* France
* Ireland
* New Zealand
* Russia
* Spain
* United States
* Brazil
* South Africa

## Pool stage

Key to colours in group tables :
* Teams that advanced to the Cup Quarterfinal

### Pool A

| Team | Pld | W | D | L | PF | PA | PD | Pts |
| Australia | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 77 | 22 | +55 | 9 |
| Russia | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 36 | 46 | –10 | 5 |
| South Africa | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 45 | 64 | –19 | 5 |
| United States | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 29 | 55 | –26 | 5 |
* 1 December 2016 13:28
| United States | 12–10 | Russia |
* The Sevens, Dubai
* 1 December 2016 13:50
| Australia | 38–5 | South Africa |
* The Sevens, Dubai
* 1 December 2016 16:24
| United States | 7–26 | South Africa |
* The Sevens, Dubai
* 1 December 2016 16:46
| Australia | 20–7 | Russia |
* The Sevens, Dubai
* 1 December 2016 19:21
| Russia | 19–14 | South Africa |
* The Sevens, Dubai
* 1 December 2016 19:43
| Australia | 19–10 | United States |
* The Sevens, Dubai

### Pool B

| Team | Pld | W | D | L | PF | PA | PD | Pts |
| New Zealand | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 77 | 15 | +62 | 9 |
| Fiji | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 48 | 50 | –2 | 6 |
| France | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 38 | 66 | –28 | 5 |
| Ireland | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 36 | 68 | –32 | 4 |
* 1 December 2016 12:44
| France | 14–21 | Fiji |
* The Sevens, Dubai
* 1 December 2016 13:06
| New Zealand | 27–5 | Ireland |
* The Sevens, Dubai
* 1 December 2016 15:40
| France | 24–14 | Ireland |
* The Sevens, Dubai
* 1 December 2016 16:02
| New Zealand | 19–10 | Fiji |
* The Sevens, Dubai
* 1 December 2016 18:37
| Fiji | 17–17 | Ireland |
* The Sevens, Dubai
* 1 December 2016 18:59
| New Zealand | 31–0 | France |
* The Sevens, Dubai

### Pool C

| Team | Pld | W | D | L | PF | PA | PD | Pts |
| Canada | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 77 | 38 | +39 | 9 |
| England | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 71 | 38 | +33 | 7 |
| Spain | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 35 | 63 | –28 | 5 |
| Brazil | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 31 | 75 | –44 | 3 |
* 1 December 2016 12:00
| England | 31–7 | Spain |
* The Sevens, Dubai
* 1 December 2016 12:22
| Canada | 26–19 | Brazil |
* The Sevens, Dubai
* 1 December 2016 14:56
| England | 28–7 | Brazil |
* The Sevens, Dubai
* 1 December 2016 15:18
| Canada | 27–7 | Spain |
* The Sevens, Dubai
* 1 December 2016 17:53
| Spain | 21–5 | Brazil |
* The Sevens, Dubai
* 1 December 2016 18:15
| Canada | 24–12 | England |
* The Sevens, Dubai

## Knockout stage
### Challenge Trophy

| Semi-finals | Semi-finals | Challenge Trophy Final | Challenge Trophy Final |
| 2 December 2016 – 11:52 – Dubai | 2 December 2016 – 11:52 – Dubai |
| Spain | 22 |
| Spain | 22 | 2 December 2016 – 16:25 – Dubai | 2 December 2016 – 16:25 – Dubai |
| Brazil | 7 | 2 December 2016 – 16:25 – Dubai | 2 December 2016 – 16:25 – Dubai |
| Brazil | 7 | Spain | 12 |
| 2 December 2016 – 12:14 Dubai | 2 December 2016 – 12:14 Dubai | | Spain | 12 |
| 2 December 2016 – 12:14 Dubai | 2 December 2016 – 12:14 Dubai | Ireland | 14 |
| United States | 5 | Ireland | 14 |
| Ireland | 28 | | |
| Ireland | 28 | 11th Place | 11th Place |
| | | 4 December 2016 – 15:02 – Dubai | 4 December 2016 – 15:02 – Dubai |
| | | Brazil | 17 |
| | | United States | 26 |

### 5th place

| Semi-finals | Semi-finals | 5th Place Final | 5th Place Final |
| 2 December 2016 – 12:36 – Dubai | 2 December 2016 – 12:36 – Dubai |
| South Africa | 12 |
| South Africa | 12 | 2 December 2016 – 15:46 – Dubai | 2 December 2016 – 15:46 – Dubai |
| Canada | 19 | 2 December 2016 – 15:46 – Dubai | 2 December 2016 – 15:46 – Dubai |
| Canada | 19 | Canada | 14 |
| 2 December 2016 – 12:58 – Dubai | 2 December 2016 – 12:58 – Dubai | | Canada | 14 |
| 2 December 2016 – 12:58 – Dubai | 2 December 2016 – 12:58 – Dubai | Fiji | 17 |
| Fiji | 31 | Fiji | 17 |
| France | 12 | | |
| France | 12 | 7th Place | 7th Place |
| | | 2 December 2016 – 15:24 – Dubai | 2 December 2016 – 15:24 – Dubai |
| | | South Africa | 5 |
| | | France | 31 |

### Cup

| Quarter-finals | Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Semi-finals | | Cup Final | Cup Final |
| 2 December 2016 – 09:00 – Dubai | 2 December 2016 – 09:00 – Dubai | | | |
| New Zealand | 39 | | | |
| New Zealand | 39 | 2 December 2016 – 13:28 – Dubai | 2 December 2016 – 13:28 – Dubai | | |
| South Africa | 0 | 2 December 2016 – 13:28 – Dubai | 2 December 2016 – 13:28 – Dubai | |
| South Africa | 0 | New Zealand | 24 | |
| 2 December 2016 – 09:22 – Dubai | 2 December 2016 – 09:22 – Dubai | | New Zealand | 24 | |
| 2 December 2016 – 09:22 – Dubai | 2 December 2016 – 09:22 – Dubai | Russia | 5 | |
| Canada | 7 | Russia | 5 | |
| Canada | 7 | | | | 2 December 2016 – 17:15 – Dubai | 2 December 2016 – 17:15 – Dubai |
| Russia | 17 | | | | 2 December 2016 – 17:15 – Dubai | 2 December 2016 – 17:15 – Dubai |
| Russia | 17 | | | | New Zealand | 17 |
| 2 December 2016 – 09:44 – Dubai | 2 December 2016 – 09:44 – Dubai | | | | | New Zealand | 17 |
| 2 December 2016 – 09:44 – Dubai | 2 December 2016 – 09:44 – Dubai | | | | Australia | 5 |
| Fiji | 17 | | | | Australia | 5 |
| Fiji | 17 | 2 December 2016 – 13:50 – Dubai | 2 December 2016 – 13:50 – Dubai | | | |
| England | 19 | 2 December 2016 – 13:50 – Dubai | 2 December 2016 – 13:50 – Dubai | | | |
| England | 19 | England | 10 | | | |
| 2 December 2016 – 10:06 – Dubai | 2 December 2016 – 10:06 – Dubai | | England | 10 | | | |
| 2 December 2016 – 10:06 – Dubai | 2 December 2016 – 10:06 – Dubai | Australia | 31 | | Bronze Medal Match | Bronze Medal Match |
| Australia | 42 | Australia | 31 | | Bronze Medal Match | Bronze Medal Match |
| Australia | 42 | | | | 2 December 2016 – 16:50 – Dubai | 2 December 2016 – 16:50 – Dubai |
| France | 0 | | | | 2 December 2016 – 16:50 – Dubai | 2 December 2016 – 16:50 – Dubai |
| France | 0 | | | | Russia | 17 |
| | | | | | England | 14 |

## Tournament placings

| Place | Team | Points |
| | New Zealand | 20 |
| | Australia | 18 |
| | Russia | 16 |
| 4 | England | 14 |
| 5 | Fiji | 12 |
| 6 | Canada | 10 |
| Place | Team | Points |
| 7 | France | 8 |
| 8 | South Africa | 6 |
| 9 | Ireland | 4 |
| 10 | Spain | 3 |
| 11 | United States | 2 |
| 12 | Brazil | 1 |
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