# 2018 Sydney Women's Sevens

The 2018 Sydney Women's Sevens was the second tournament of the 2017–18 World Rugby Women's Sevens Series. It was the second edition of the Australian Women's Sevens and was held over the weekend of 26–28 January 2018 at Allianz Stadium in Sydney, Australia.
Performances at this tournament helped determine the first ten seedings for the 2018 Rugby World Cup Sevens together with the previous year's series and the 2017 Dubai Women's Sevens.

## 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 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

Eleven core teams are participating in the tournament along with one invited team, the highest-placing non-core team of the 2017 Oceania Women's Sevens Championship, Papua New Guinea:
* Australia
* Canada
* England
* Fiji
* France
* Ireland
* Japan
* New Zealand
* Papua New Guinea
* Russia
* Spain
* United States

## Pool stage

All times in Australian Eastern Daylight Time (UTC+11:00)

### Pool A

| Team | Pld | W | D | L | PF | PA | PD | Pts |
| Australia | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 122 | 0 | +122 | 9 |
| France | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 72 | 43 | +29 | 7 |
| Spain | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 29 | 51 | –22 | 5 |
| Papua New Guinea | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 129 | –129 | 3 |

### Pool B

| Team | Pld | W | D | L | PF | PA | PD | Pts |
| New Zealand | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 112 | 19 | +93 | 9 |
| United States | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 62 | 59 | +3 | 5 |
| England | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 50 | 74 | –24 | 5 |
| Japan | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 24 | 96 | –72 | 5 |

### Pool C

| Team | Pld | W | D | L | PF | PA | PD | Pts |
| Canada | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 67 | 29 | +38 | 9 |
| Russia | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 43 | 38 | +5 | 7 |
| Ireland | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 36 | 57 | –21 | 5 |
| Fiji | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 38 | 60 | –22 | 3 |

## Knockout stage
### Challenge Trophy

| Semi-finals | Semi-finals | Challenge Trophy Final | Challenge Trophy Final |
| 27 January 2018 – 9:00 – Allianz Stadium, Sydney | 27 January 2018 – 9:00 – Allianz Stadium, Sydney |
| England | 52 |
| England | 52 | 27 January 2018 – 12:06 – Allianz Stadium, Sydney | 27 January 2018 – 12:06 – Allianz Stadium, Sydney |
| Papua New Guinea | 0 | 27 January 2018 – 12:06 – Allianz Stadium, Sydney | 27 January 2018 – 12:06 – Allianz Stadium, Sydney |
| Papua New Guinea | 0 | England | 29 |
| 27 January 2018 – 9:22 – Allianz Stadium, Sydney | 27 January 2018 – 9:22 – Allianz Stadium, Sydney | | England | 29 |
| 27 January 2018 – 9:22 – Allianz Stadium, Sydney | 27 January 2018 – 9:22 – Allianz Stadium, Sydney | Fiji | 10 |
| Japan | 10 | Fiji | 10 |
| Fiji | 19 | | |
| Fiji | 19 | 11th Place | 11th Place |
| | | 27 January 2018 – 11:44 – Allianz Stadium, Sydney | 27 January 2018 – 11:44 – Allianz Stadium, Sydney |
| | | Papua New Guinea | 5 |
| | | Japan | 41 |
Matches :

### 5th place

| Semi-finals | Semi-finals | 5th Place Final | 5th Place Final |
| 27 January 2018 – 12:33 – Allianz Stadium, Sydney | 27 January 2018 – 12:33 – Allianz Stadium, Sydney |
| Spain | 24 |
| Spain | 24 | 28 January 2018 – 13:48 – Allianz Stadium, Sydney | 28 January 2018 – 13:48 – Allianz Stadium, Sydney |
| United States | 19 | 28 January 2018 – 13:48 – Allianz Stadium, Sydney | 28 January 2018 – 13:48 – Allianz Stadium, Sydney |
| United States | 19 | Spain | 5 |
| 27 January 2018 – 13:15 – Allianz Stadium, Sydney | 27 January 2018 – 13:15 – Allianz Stadium, Sydney | | Spain | 5 |
| 27 January 2018 – 13:15 – Allianz Stadium, Sydney | 27 January 2018 – 13:15 – Allianz Stadium, Sydney | France | 19 |
| Ireland | 7 | France | 19 |
| France | 17 | | |
| France | 17 | 7th Place | 7th Place |
| | | 28 January 2018 – 13:26 – Allianz Stadium, Sydney | 28 January 2018 – 13:26 – Allianz Stadium, Sydney |
| | | United States | 10 |
| | | Ireland | 19 |
Matches :

### Cup

| Quarter-finals | Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Semi-finals | | Cup Final | Cup Final |
| 27 January 2018 – 9:44 – Allianz Stadium, Sydney | 27 January 2018 – 9:44 – Allianz Stadium, Sydney | | | |
| Australia | 29 | | | |
| Australia | 29 | 27 January 2018 – 13:37 – Allianz Stadium, Sydney | 27 January 2018 – 13:37 – Allianz Stadium, Sydney | | |
| Spain | 0 | 27 January 2018 – 13:37 – Allianz Stadium, Sydney | 27 January 2018 – 13:37 – Allianz Stadium, Sydney | |
| Spain | 0 | Australia | 31 | |
| 27 January 2018 – 10:06 – Allianz Stadium, Sydney | 27 January 2018 – 10:06 – Allianz Stadium, Sydney | | Australia | 31 | |
| 27 January 2018 – 10:06 – Allianz Stadium, Sydney | 27 January 2018 – 10:06 – Allianz Stadium, Sydney | Russia | 0 | |
| United States | 14 | Russia | 0 | |
| United States | 14 | | | | 28 January 2018 – 14:37 – Allianz Stadium, Sydney | 28 January 2018 – 14:37 – Allianz Stadium, Sydney |
| Russia | 19 | | | | 28 January 2018 – 14:37 – Allianz Stadium, Sydney | 28 January 2018 – 14:37 – Allianz Stadium, Sydney |
| Russia | 19 | | | | Australia | 31 |
| 27 January 2018 – 10:28 – Allianz Stadium, Sydney | 27 January 2018 – 10:28 – Allianz Stadium, Sydney | | | | | Australia | 31 |
| 27 January 2018 – 10:28 – Allianz Stadium, Sydney | 27 January 2018 – 10:28 – Allianz Stadium, Sydney | | | | New Zealand | 0 |
| New Zealand | 36 | | | | New Zealand | 0 |
| New Zealand | 36 | 27 January 2018 – 13:59 – Allianz Stadium, Sydney | 27 January 2018 – 13:59 – Allianz Stadium, Sydney | | | |
| Ireland | 0 | 27 January 2018 – 13:59 – Allianz Stadium, Sydney | 27 January 2018 – 13:59 – Allianz Stadium, Sydney | | | |
| Ireland | 0 | New Zealand | 26 | | | |
| 27 January 2018 – 10:50 – Allianz Stadium, Sydney | 27 January 2018 – 10:50 – Allianz Stadium, Sydney | | New Zealand | 26 | | | |
| 27 January 2018 – 10:50 – Allianz Stadium, Sydney | 27 January 2018 – 10:50 – Allianz Stadium, Sydney | Canada | 0 | | Bronze Medal Match | Bronze Medal Match |
| Canada | 28 | Canada | 0 | | Bronze Medal Match | Bronze Medal Match |
| Canada | 28 | | | | 28 January 2018 – 14:10 – Allianz Stadium, Sydney | 28 January 2018 – 14:10 – Allianz Stadium, Sydney |
| France | 12 | | | | 28 January 2018 – 14:10 – Allianz Stadium, Sydney | 28 January 2018 – 14:10 – Allianz Stadium, Sydney |
| France | 12 | | | | Russia | 12 |
| | | | | | Canada | 40 |
Matches :

## Tournament placings

| Place | Team | Points |
| | Australia | 20 |
| | New Zealand | 18 |
| | Canada | 16 |
| 4 | Russia | 14 |
| 5 | France | 12 |
| 6 | Spain | 10 |
| Place | Team | Points |
| 7 | Ireland | 8 |
| 8 | United States | 6 |
| 9 | England | 4 |
| 10 | Fiji | 3 |
| 11 | Japan | 2 |
| 12 | Papua New Guinea | 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 |
| Portia Woodman Baizat Khamidova Brittany Benn | Charlotte Caslick Michaela Blyde Emilee Cherry Jess Breach |