2019 South Africa Sevens
The 2019 South Africa Sevens is the second tournament within the 2019–20 World Rugby Sevens Series and the 21st South Africa Sevens tournament. It will be held on 13–15 December 2019 at Cape Town Stadium in Cape Town, South Africa.
Fiji, the United States and South Africa – three of the top four teams from the 2018–19 World Rugby Sevens Series – were all drawn into Pool A.
Format
The sixteen are drawn into four pools of four teams. Each team plays every other team in their pool once. The top two teams from each pool advance to the Cup playoffs and compete for gold, silver and bronze medals. The other teams from each pool go to the classification playoffs for ninth to sixteenth placings.Teams
Fifteen core teams participated in the tournament along with one invited team, Japan.Pool stage
All times in South African Standard TimePool A
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Pool B
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Pool C
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Pool D
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Placement matches
Fifteenth place
Thirteenth place
Eleventh place
Ninth place
Knockout stage
Cup
Quarter-finals
Semi-finals
Third place
Final
Tournament placings
Place | Team | Points |
22 | ||
19 | ||
17 | ||
4 | 15 | |
5 | 13 | |
6 | 12 | |
7 | 11 | |
8 | 10 |
Place | Team | Points |
9 | 8 | |
10 | 7 | |
11 | 6 | |
12 | 5 | |
13 | 4 | |
14 | 3 | |
15 | 2 | |
16 | 1 |
Dream Team
Runners-up and host team South Africa contributed three players to the tournament Dream Team.Forwards | Backs |
Scott Curry Alvin Otieno JC Pretorius | Jean Pascal Barraque Rosko Specman Ruhan Nel Jordan Conroy |