Women's Sevens World Cup

The Women's Sevens World Cup is a women's international rugby sevens competition organised by World Rugby (known as the International Rugby Board prior to 2014), the sport's international governing body. It has taken place every four years and alongside the men's tournament since 2009. Initially, the 2013 tournament was planned to be the final event following an IRB statement that their intention would be to end the World Cup Sevens so that the Olympic Games would be the one pinnacle in a four-year cycle for Rugby Sevens. However, the IRB eventually decided to retain the men's and women's World Cups. In the future, both events will be held in the middle of the Summer Olympic cycle, with the next editions set for 2018.

Date/Venue: March 5–7, Dubai (Source WR and various national union web pages)

(with date of qualification) - Brazil (28 January 2008), England, Netherlands, Russia, Spain, France, Italy (15 June 2008), Australia, New Zealand (26 July 2008), Japan, Thailand, China (5 October 2008) South Africa, Uganda, (21 September 2008), Canada, USA (26 October 2008)

The draw took place on 19 January 2009. The groups being:

The IRB selected the following individuals as ones to watch.

Games marked * played on the main pitch. Note the extra information is from the IRB and was noted from the fourth game that it didn't add up on their ticker, with a later four discrepancies between the ticker and the tables. The problem games will be investigated where possible to establish the exact scorers of tries.

POOL A

France top the group as they beat the team they were tied with

Australia (24) 50-12 (7) China*

Netherlands (7) 17-14 (7) France*

Australia (0) 10-14 (7) France

Netherlands (7) 12 - (14) 31 China

Australia (24) 36-0 (0) Netherlands

France (14) 19-5 (5) China

POOL B

England (10) 17-0 (0) USA*

Japan (0) 10-31 (19) Russia*

England (17) 29-0 (0) Russia

Japan (0) 0-38 (26) USA

Russia (0) 0-12 (12) USA

England (21) 47-0 (0) Japan

POOL C

Canada (26) 52-7 (7) Thailand

Brazil (0) 0 v 19 (0) Spain

Brazil (5) 12-10 (5) Thailand

Canada (0) 0-12 (12) Spain

Spain (7) 19-12 (5) Thailand*

Canada (14) 38-0 (0) Brazil*

POOL D

New Zealand (21) 50-0 (0) Uganda

South Africa (7) 17-5 (5) Italy

New Zealand (24) 45-0 (0) Italy*

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