2019 Sydney Women's Sevens


The 2019 Sydney Women's Sevens was the third tournament within the 2018–19 World Rugby Women's Sevens Series and the third edition of the Australian Women's Sevens. It was held over the weekend of 1–3 February 2019 at Spotless Stadium in Sydney, with former venue Allianz Stadium closed for rebuilding. It was run alongside the men's tournament.

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 2018 Oceania Women's Sevens Championship, Papua New Guinea:

Pool stage

All times in Australian Eastern Daylight Time

Pool A

Pool B

Pool C

Knockout stage

Challenge Trophy

Matches

Semifinals
Eleventh Place
Final

5th Place

Matches

Semifinals
Seventh Place
Final

Cup

Matches

Quarterfinals
Semifinals
Third Place
Final

Tournament placings

PlaceTeamPoints
20
18
16
414
512
610

PlaceTeamPoints
78
86
94
103
112
121

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Players

Scoring leaders

RankPlayerTries
1 Amee-Leigh Murphy-Crowe9
2 Michaela Blyde7
3 Bianca Farella6
4 Ellia Green5
4 Fanny Horta5

RankPlayerPoints
1 Amee-Leigh Murphy-Crowe45
2 Emma Sykes40
3 Michaela Blyde35
4 Ghislaine Landry33
5 Patricia García32

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