2018 Rugby World Cup Sevens – Men's tournament

2018 Rugby World Cup Sevens – Men's tournament
Tournament details
Venue	AT&T Park
Dates	20 – 22 July
No. of nations	24
Final positions
Champions	New Zealand
Runner-up	England
Tournament statistics
Matches played	52
Tries scored	344 (average 6.62 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Emmanuel Guise (37)
Most tries	Joe Ravouvou (6) Siviwe Soyizwapi (6)
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The men's tournament in the 2018 Rugby World Cup Sevens was held at AT&T Park in San Francisco. New Zealand won the tournament and took home the Melrose Cup by defeating England 33–12 in the final; South Africa won the bronze by defeating Fiji 24–19. The tournament was dominated by the World Series core teams, which accounted for all eight of the teams that reached the quarterfinals. Ireland was the highest placed non core team in ninth, notching wins against core teams Kenya, Wales, and Australia.

The top point scorer was Papua New Guinea's Emmanuel Guise with 37 points. The joint top try scorers were New Zealand's Joe Ravouvou and South Africa's Siviwe Soyizwapi with 6 each.

Format

Unlike previous editions, the tournament will be played for the first time in a knock-out only format.

Teams in the Championship Cup will compete for the Melrose Cup and bronze medals.
Losing teams in the Championship Cup Quarter-finals will compete for 5th Place.
Losing teams in the Championship Cup Round of 16 (second round) will compete for the Challenge Trophy.
Losing teams in the Championship Cup Pre-round of 16 (first round) will compete for the Bowl.
Losing teams in the Challenge Trophy Quarter-finals will compete for 13th Place.
Losing teams in the Bowl Quarter-finals will compete for 21st Place.
Teams entering in the Pre-round of 16 (first round) in the Championship Cup will play a minimum of four matches and a maximum of five matches.
Teams entering in the Round of 16 (second round) in the Championship Cup will play four matches.

Teams

Africa	North America	South America	Asia	Europe	Oceania
Automatic qualification
Kenya South Africa	United States			England France Wales	Australia Fiji New Zealand
2016–17 World Series
	Canada	Argentina		Scotland	Samoa
Regional Qualifiers
Uganda Zimbabwe	Jamaica	Chile Uruguay	Hong Kong Japan	Ireland Russia	Papua New Guinea Tonga

Squads

Draw

The twenty-four teams are seeded as follows:^[1]

The fourteen core teams of the 2017–18 World Rugby Sevens Series who qualified are ranked as the first fourteen teams. These teams are seeded according to combined rankings derived from the 2016–17 World Rugby Sevens Series, and the first seven rounds of the 2017–18 World Rugby Sevens Series.
Places 15–24 are allocated to teams that qualified by way of the regional tournaments. These teams are seeded based on their rankings from the 2018 Hong Kong Sevens qualifier.
Teams ranked 1-8 receive byes and enter the Championship Cup in the Round of 16 (second round).
Teams ranked 9-24 enter the Championship Cup in the Pre-round of 16 (first round).

2017–18 Core Team Seeding
Pos	Event Team	2016–17	Dubai	Cape Town	Sydney	Hamilton	Las Vegas	Vancouver	Hong Kong	Points total
1	South Africa	192	22	17	19	19	15	17	17	318
2	Fiji	150	15	13	12	22	17	22	22	273
3	New Zealand	137	19	22	13	15	13	10	15	244
4	England	164	17	10	10	10	10	13	1	235
5	United States	129	1	12	15	8	22	15	12	214
6	Australia	113	13	8	22	17	12	12	5	202
7	Argentina	90	5	19	17	7	19	10	13	180
8	Scotland	109	10	1	2	10	5	8	10	155
9	Kenya	63	10	3	10	12	10	19	19	146
10	Canada	98	5	15	3	5	7	2	7	142
11	France	66	8	10	8	3	8	1	8	112
12	Wales	73	3	5	7	2	5	5	3	103
13	Samoa	51	12	5	5	13	3	3	2	94
14	Russia	29	1	1	5	1	1	5	5	48

2018 Hong Kong Sevens seeding
Pos	Team	Round	Group Rank	Record	PD
15	Japan	Champion	2	5–1	+130
16	Ireland	Semifinal	1	4–1	+126
17	Chile	Semifinal	1	3–2	+34
18	Uruguay	Quarterfinal	2	2–2	+12
19	Hong Kong	Quarterfinal	2	1–3	–10
20	Uganda	Quarterfinal	3	2–2	–20
21	Zimbabwe	Quarterfinal	3	1–3	–42
22	Jamaica	Pool stage	3	1–2	–41
23	Papua New Guinea	Pool stage	4	1–2	–35
24	Tonga	N/A

^[2]

Match officials

World Rugby announced a panel of ten match officials for the men's tournament.^[3]

Rasta Rasivhenge (South Africa)
Richard Kelly (New Zealand)
Craig Evans (Wales)
Sam Grove-White (Scotland)
Damon Murphy (Australia)

Jérémy Rozier (France)
Matt Rodden (Hong Kong)
Richard Haughton (England)
Damián Schneider (Argentina)
Mike O'Brien (United States)

Tournament

Pre-Round of 16

20 July 2018	(9) Kenya	19–7	Tonga (24)	AT&T Park
13:01	Try: Oyoo (2) 7'm, 9'c Injera 12'c Con: Oliech (1/1) 9'c Agero (1/2) 12'		Try: Tokai 5'c Con: Muna (1/1) 6' Cards: Tokai 7'	Referee: Matt Rodden (Hong Kong)

20 July 2018	(10) Canada	29–21	Papua New Guinea (23)	AT&T Park
13:23	Try: Jones 0'c Douglas (2) 3'c, 7'm Mullins 7'm Braid 14'c Con: Hirayama (2/5) 0', 4'		Try: Tirang 4'c Kalua 10'c Peter 12'c Con: Guise (3/3) 5', 10', 12'	Referee: Sam Grove-White (Scotland)

20 July 2018	(11) France	50–0	Jamaica (22)	AT&T Park
13:45	Try: Veredamu 0'm Valleau (2) 2'c, 3'c Barraque (2) 6'c, 9'm Bouhraoua 8'm Boudehent 10'c Parez 13'c Con: Barraque (3/4) 3', 4', 6' Riva (1/2) 11' Parez (1/1) 14'			Referee: Mike O'Brien (United States)

20 July 2018	(12) Wales	33–12	Zimbabwe (21)	AT&T Park
14:07	Try: Rosser 5'c Morgan (2) 7'c, 8'c Roach 9'c Allen 13'c Con: Davies (3/3) 6', 7', 8' Treharne (1/2) 9' Cards: Chitokwindo 1'c Makombe 3'm		Try: Rouse (1/2) 1'	Referee: Richard Haughton (England)

20 July 2018	(13) Samoa	45–7	Uganda (20)	AT&T Park
14:29	Try: Perez 0'c Fomai 3'c Tuatagaloa 5'm Motuga (2) 8'c, 13'c Leilual 10'c Solia 12'm Con: Tupou (4/5) 1', 3', 8', 10' Paulo (1/2) 13'		Try: Okorach 7'c Con: Wokorach (1/1) 7' Cards: Okorach 2'	Referee: Craig Evans (Wales)

20 July 2018	(14) Russia	21–7	Hong Kong (19)	AT&T Park
14:51	Try: Ianiushkin (2) 2'c, 5'c Davydov 6'c Con: Gaisin (3/3) 3', 6', 7'		Try: Herbert 14'c Con: Hood (1/1) 14'	Referee: Damián Schneider (Argentina)

20 July 2018	(15) Japan	33–7	Uruguay (18)	AT&T Park
15:13	Try: Lilidamu (2) 1'm, 5'c Tupou 4'c Sakai 7'c Soejima 13'c Con: Sakai (4/5) 4', 5', 7', 13'		Try: Mieres 9'c Con: Lijtenstein 9'	Referee: Jérémy Rozier (France)

20 July 2018	(16) Ireland	17–12	Chile (17)	AT&T Park
15:35	Try: Keenan 3'c Dardis 6'm O'Brien 14'm Con: Dardis (1/3) 3'		Try: P Verschae 1'c Metuaze 11'm Con: Torrealba (1/2) 1'	Referee: Richard Kelly (New Zealand)

21st Place

Semi-finals		21st Place Final

22 July 2018 – 9:00 – AT&T Park

Tonga (24)	31
		22 July 2018 – 13:46 – AT&T Park
Zimbabwe (21)	5
		Tonga (24)	14
22 July 2018 – 9:22 – AT&T Park
		Papua New Guinea (23)	31
Papua New Guinea (23)	52

Jamaica (22)	7
		23rd Place

		22 July 2018 – 13:24 – AT&T Park

		Zimbabwe (21)	33

		Jamaica (22)	21

Matches

Semi-finals

22 July 2018	(24) Tonga	31–5	Zimbabwe (21)	AT&T Park
9:00	Try: Kilioni 1'm Vahe 6'c Tokai 8'm Muna 13'c Vainikolo 14'c Con: Muna (3/5) 6', 13', 14'		Try: Chitokwindo 11'm Con: Rouse (0/1) Cards: Madida 1'	Referee: Matt Rodden (Hong Kong)

22 July 2018	(23) Papua New Guinea	52–7	Jamaica (22)	AT&T Park
9:22				Referee: Craig Evans (Wales)

23rd Place

22 July 2018	(21) Zimbabwe	33–21	Jamaica (22)	AT&T Park
13:24				Referee: Damián Schneider (Argentina)

21st Place Final

22 July 2018	(24) Tonga	14–31	Papua New Guinea (23)	AT&T Park
13:46				Referee: Jérémy Rozier (France)

Bowl

Quarter-finals		Semi-finals		Bowl Final

21 July 2018 – 12:26 – AT&T Park

Tonga (24)	29
		22 July 2018 – 9:44 – AT&T Park
Chile (17)	33
		Chile (17)	20
21 July 2018 – 13:32 – AT&T Park
		Uganda (20)	17
Zimbabwe (21)	10
				22 July 2018 – 14:40 – AT&T Park
Uganda (20)	24
				Chile (17)	20
21 July 2018 – 12:48 – AT&T Park
				Hong Kong (19)	7
Papua New Guinea (23)	19
		22 July 2018 – 10:06 – AT&T Park
Uruguay (18)	21
		Uruguay (18)	5
21 July 2018 – 13:10 – AT&T Park
		Hong Kong (19)	31	19th Place
Jamaica (22)	10
				22 July 2018 – 14:18 – AT&T Park
Hong Kong (19)	24
				Uganda (20)	38

				Uruguay (18)	28

Matches

Quarter-finals

21 July 2018	(24) Tonga	29–33	Chile (17)	AT&T Park
12:26				Referee: Rasta Rasivhenge (South Africa)

21 July 2018	(23) Papua New Guinea	19–21	Uruguay (18)	AT&T Park
12:48				Referee: Sam Grove-White (Scotland)

21 July 2018	(11) Jamaica	10–24	Hong Kong (19)	AT&T Park
13:10				Referee: Mike O'Brien (United States)

21 July 2018	(21) Zimbabwe	10–24	Uganda (20)	AT&T Park
13:32				Referee: Matt Rodden (Hong Kong)

Semi-finals

22 July 2018	(17) Chile	20–17	Uganda (20)	AT&T Park
9:44				Referee: Rasta Rasivhenge (South Africa)

22 July 2018	(18) Uruguay	5–31	Hong Kong (19)	AT&T Park
10:06				Referee: Richard Kelly (New Zealand)

19th Place

22 July 2018	(18) Uruguay	28–38	Uganda (20)	AT&T Park
14:18				Referee: Matt Rodden (Hong Kong)

Bowl Final

22 July 2018	(17) Chile	20–7	Hong Kong (19)	AT&T Park
14:40				Referee: Mike O'Brien (United States)

13th Place

Semi-finals		13th Place Final

22 July 2018 – 10:28 – AT&T Park

Kenya (9)	17
		22 July 2018 – 15:24 – AT&T Park
Samoa (13)	19
		Samoa (13)	22
22 July 2018 – 10:50 – AT&T Park
		Russia (14)	17
Japan (15)	20

Russia (14)	26
		15th Place

		22 July 2018 – 15:02 – AT&T Park

		Kenya (9)	14

		Japan (15)	26

Matches

Semi-finals

22 July 2018	(9) Kenya	17–19	Samoa (13)	AT&T Park
10:28				Referee: Mike O'Brien (United States)

22 July 2018	(15) Japan	20–26	Russia (14)	AT&T Park
10:50				Referee: Damián Schneider (Argentina)

15th Place

22 July 2018	(9) Kenya	14–26	Japan (15)	AT&T Park
15:02				Referee: Richard Haughton (England)

13th Place Final

22 July 2018	(13) Samoa	22–17	Russia (14)	AT&T Park
15:24				Referee: Matt Rodden (Hong Kong)

Challenge Trophy

Quarter-finals		Semi-finals		Challenge Trophy Final

21 July 2018 – 14:04 – AT&T Park

Ireland (16)	24
		22 July 2018 – 11:12 – AT&T Park
Kenya (9)	14
		Ireland (16)	27
21 July 2018 – 15:10 – AT&T Park
		Wales (12)	12
Samoa (13)	19
				22 July 2018 – 16:08 – AT&T Park
Wales (12)	24
				Ireland (16)	24
21 July 2018 – 14:26 – AT&T Park
				Australia (6)	14
Japan (15)	17
		22 July 2018 – 11:34 – AT&T Park
Canada (10)	35
		Canada (10)	7
21 July 2018 – 14:48 – AT&T Park
		Australia (6)	19	11th Place
Russia (14)	0
				22 July 2018 – 15:46 – AT&T Park
Australia (6)	41
				Wales (12)	35

				Canada (10)	12

Matches

Quarter-finals

21 July 2018	(9) Kenya	14–24	Ireland (16)	AT&T Park
14:04				Referee: Richard Haughton (England)

21 July 2018	(10) Canada	35–17	Japan (15)	AT&T Park
14:26				Referee: Damon Murphy (Australia)

21 July 2018	(6) Australia	41–0	Russia (14)	AT&T Park
14:48				Referee: Jérémy Rozier (France)

21 July 2018	(12) Wales	24–19	Samoa (13)	AT&T Park
15:10				Referee: Damián Schneider (Argentina)

Semi-finals

22 July 2018	(16) Ireland	27–12	Wales (12)	AT&T Park
11:12				Referee: Damon Murphy (Australia)

22 July 2018	(10) Canada	7–19	Australia (6)	AT&T Park
11:34				Referee: Sam Grove-White (Scotland)

11th Place

22 July 2018	(12) Wales	35–12	Canada (10)	AT&T Park
15:46				Referee: Damon Murphy (Australia)

Challenge Trophy Final

22 July 2018	(16) Ireland	24–14	Australia (6)	AT&T Park
16:08				Referee: Jérémy Rozier (France)

5th Place

Semi-finals		5th Place Final

22 July 2018 – 11:56 – AT&T Park

Scotland (8)	0
		22 July 2018 – 17:02 – AT&T Park
United States (5)	28
		United States (5)	7
22 July 2018 – 12:18 – AT&T Park
		Argentina (7)	33
Argentina (7)	26

France (11)	15
		7th Place

		22 July 2018 – 16:40 – AT&T Park

		Scotland (8) (a.e.t.)	29

		France (11)	24

Matches

Semi-finals

22 July 2018	(8) Scotland	0–28	United States (5)	AT&T Park
11:56				Referee: Jérémy Rozier (France)

22 July 2018	(7) Argentina	26–15	France (11)	AT&T Park
12:18				Referee: Richard Haughton (England)

7th Place

22 July 2018	(8) Scotland	29–24 (a.e.t.)	France (11)	AT&T Park
16:40				Referee: Craig Evans (Wales)

5th Place Final

22 July 2018	(5) United States	7–33	Argentina (7)	AT&T Park
17:02				Referee: Sam Grove-White (Scotland)

Championship Cup

Round of 16

Quarter-finals

Semi-finals

Championship Cup Final

20 July 2018 – 21:15 – AT&T Park

South Africa (1)

21 July 2018 – 15:32 – AT&T Park

Ireland (16)

South Africa (1)

20 July 2018 – 19:03 – AT&T Park

Scotland (8)

Scotland (8)

22 July 2018 – 12:40 – AT&T Park

Kenya (9)

South Africa (1)

20 July 2018 – 20:09 – AT&T Park

England (4)

21 July 2018 – 16:38 – AT&T Park

Samoa (13)

England (4) (a.e.t.)

20 July 2018 – 21:37 – AT&T Park

United States (5)

United States (5)

22 July 2018 – 17:46 – AT&T Park

Wales (12)

England (4)

20 July 2018 – 20:53 – AT&T Park

New Zealand (3)

Fiji (2)

21 July 2018 – 15:54 – AT&T Park

Japan (15)

Fiji (2)

20 July 2018 – 19:25 – AT&T Park

Argentina (7)

Argentina (7)

22 July 2018 – 13:02 – AT&T Park

Canada (10)

Fiji (2)

20 July 2018 – 20:31 – AT&T Park

New Zealand (3)

Bronze Medal Match

New Zealand (3)

21 July 2018 – 16:16 – AT&T Park

22 July 2018 – 17:24 – AT&T Park

Russia (14)

New Zealand (3)

South Africa (1)

20 July 2018 – 19:47 – AT&T Park

France (11)

Fiji (2)

Australia (6)

France (11)

Matches

Round of 16

20 July 2018	(8) Scotland	31–26	Kenya (9)	AT&T Park
19:03				Referee: Craig Evans (Wales)

20 July 2018	(7) Argentina	28–0	Canada (10)	AT&T Park
19:25				Referee: Richard Kelly (New Zealand)

20 July 2018	(6) Australia	17–22	France (11)	AT&T Park
19:47				Referee: Sam Grove-White (Scotland)

20 July 2018	(4) England	19–15	Samoa (13)	AT&T Park
20:09				Referee: Damon Murphy (Australia)

20 July 2018	(3) New Zealand	29–5	Russia (14)	AT&T Park
20:31				Referee: Jérémy Rozier (France)

20 July 2018	(2) Fiji	35–10	Japan (15)	AT&T Park
20:53				Referee: Damián Schneider (Argentina)

20 July 2018	(1) South Africa	45–7	Ireland (16)	AT&T Park
21:15				Referee: Richard Haughton (England)

20 July 2018	(5) United States	35–0	Wales (12)	AT&T Park
21:37				Referee: Rasta Rasivhenge (South Africa)

Quarter-finals

21 July 2018	(8) Scotland	5–36	South Africa (1)	AT&T Park
15:32				Referee: Richard Kelly (New Zealand)

21 July 2018	(7) Argentina	7–43	Fiji (2)	AT&T Park
15:54				Referee: Craig Evans (Wales)

21 July 2018	(11) France	7–12	New Zealand (3)	AT&T Park
16:16				Referee: Sam Grove-White (Scotland)

21 July 2018	(5) United States	19–24	England (4)	AT&T Park
16:38				Referee: Rasta Rasivhenge (South Africa)

Semi-finals

22 July 2018	(1) South Africa	7–29	England (4)	AT&T Park
12:40				Referee: Craig Evans (Wales)

22 July 2018	(2) Fiji	17–22	New Zealand (3)	AT&T Park
13:02				Referee: Rasta Rasivhenge (South Africa)

Bronze Medal Match

22 July 2018	(1) South Africa	24–19	Fiji (2)	AT&T Park
17:24				Referee: Richard Kelly (New Zealand)

Championship Cup Final

22 July 2018	(4) England	12–33	New Zealand (3)	AT&T Park
17:46	Try: Ellery 7'c McConnochie 12'm Con: Mitchell (1/2) 7'	Report	Try: Molia (2) 2'c, 5'c Ravouvou 10'm Rokolisoa 14'c Joass 14'c Con: Baker (3/4) 2', 5', 14' Curry (1/1) 14'	Referee: Rasta Rasivhenge (South Africa)

^[4]

2018 Rugby World Cup Sevens Men's winners
New Zealand 3rd title

Tournament placings

Place	Team
	New Zealand
	England
	South Africa
4	Fiji
5	Argentina
6	United States
7	Scotland
8	France
9	Ireland
10	Australia
11	Wales
12	Canada

Place	Team
13	Samoa
14	Russia
15	Japan
16	Kenya
17	Chile
18	Hong Kong
19	Uganda
20	Uruguay
21	Papua New Guinea
22	Tonga
23	Zimbabwe
24	Jamaica

Attendance

Over 100,000 fans attended the three day event, which was a Rugby World Cup Sevens record until the 2022 tournament.^[5]^[6]^[7]

Player scoring

Tries scored
Rank	Player	Tries
1	Joe Ravouvou	6
1	Siviwe Soyizwapi	6
3	Justin Geduld	5
3	Luke Morgan	5
5	14 players	4

Points scored
Rank	Player	Points
1	Emmanuel Guise	37
2	Billy Dardis	32
2	Madison Hughes	32
4	John Porch	30
	Joe Ravouvou
	Siviwe Soyizwapi
	Philip Wokorach

Source: World Rugby

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