Dubai Women's Sevens


The Dubai Women's Sevens is an annual rugby sevens tournament held in Dubai, UAE. The tournament includes several competitions including, since 2006, an international women's invitational competition. Though most entrants are ad hoc sides composed of club and international players from a variety of countries, some are official national selections - the results of matches between such sides appear below.
Until the 2007 edition was held at the Dubai Exiles Rugby Ground, in 2008 it moved to The Sevens, a new stadium built to host the 2009 Rugby World Cup Sevens. The 2009 competition took place between 3–5 December.
In 2011, a new competition was launched by International Rugby Board - the IRB Women's Challenge Cup - as a first step towards a full schedule of IRB-sponsored women's sevens events for 2012–13 season. It featured eight official national teams. The traditional international women's invitational competition also took place on neighbouring pitches.
On 4 October 2012, the IRB announced the launch of the IRB Women's Sevens World Series for the 2012–13 season. The Dubai competition will be the first of four events in the inaugural season.

Results

Earlier winners

No official national selections.

Dubai Tournament 2007

Played on 1 and 2 December 2007 at Dubai Participants included Canada and USA, but there were no inter-national matches

Dubai Tournament 2008

Date: 27–29 November 2008.

Group Games
  • Sporting Chance Foundation 34-7 USA
  • Canada 33-5 WOP Netherlands


Semi Final
  • Sporting Chance Foundation 12-5 Canada
  • England went on to win the final. USA and Canada were joint third. Netherlands won the plate.
  • At the same time a "Gulf" competition was played but the results are not included as none of the "nations" has its own union.

Dubai Tournament 2009

Venue/Date: 4 December 2009, Dubai. As ever the status of some teams is debatable. Possible International match ups are:

Group Games
  • Georgia 0-54 Arabian Gulf
  • France 21-12 USA
  • Kenya 17-21 Arabian Gulf
  • Georgia 0-41 Kenya


Classification Stages
  • Kenya 5-26 USA
  • France finished as champions
  • Arabian Gulf and Kenya both lost in the Plate semi-finals
  • USA lost in the Plate final

Dubai Tournament 2010

Venue/Date: 2–3 December 2009, Dubai. As ever the status of some teams is debatable. Fixtures between what appear to be international teams are:

Group Games
  • France 35 Brazil 0
  • France 12 Almaty-Kazakhstan 0
  • Almaty-Kazakhstan 12 Brazil 7


  • France finished as runners-up.
  • Kenya and Almaty-Kazakhstan lost in the cup quarter-finals
  • Brazil finished as runner-up in the Plate.

Dubai Tournament 2011

2–3 December 2011

IRB Women's Sevens Challenge Cup

The first fully sanctioned IRB women's tournament. Held alongside that year's Dubai Sevens and the normal Women's Invitational, with the semi-finals, the final and all of the Pool A games held on the main pitch. Part of a plan to launch a full IRB International Women's Sevens Series for 2012–13. Selection criteria were not revealed by the IRB, though the teams selected and the seedings roughly reflected the 2009 World Cup rankings - but with China and Brazil invited instead of Spain and France in order to give worldwide representation. Spain were later included when New Zealand declined their invitation to attend.

POOL A
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  • Australia 12-5 Spain
  • Canada 31-0 Brazil
  • Australia 40-0 Brazil
  • Canada 19-14 Spain
  • Australia 7-14 Canada
  • Spain 17-0 Brazil
5th to 8th Place
  • South Africa 19-5 Brazil
  • Spain 22-14 China
7th Place
  • Brazil 14-17 China
5th Place
  • South Africa 0-28 Spain


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  • USA 22-10 South Africa
  • England 26-15 China
  • USA 14-7 China
  • England 22-19 South Africa
  • South Africa 28-14 China
  • England 31-0 USA
Semi Finals
  • England 12-10 Australia
  • Canada 36-0 USA
3rd Place
  • Australia 22-5 USA
Final
  • England 7-26 Canada

Women's International Invitational Tournament

This tournament, as usual, featured a mixture of national selections and international invitational teams. The official national teams were France and Kenya in Pool A, and Netherlands and "Maple Leafs" in Pool B. Unofficial teams were Moscow Region and Tuks in Pool A, and Iron Ladies and Team in Pool B.
The following are the results of the games involving the official national selections - full results can be found .

Pool games
  • Netherlands 21-0 Maple Leafs
  • France 35-0 Kenya


Semi-finals
  • France 0-12 Maple Leafs


Final
  • Netherlands 17-5 Maple Leafs

Dubai Tournament 2012

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Group B
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Plate Semi Finals
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Bowl Semi Finals
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Bowl Semi Finals
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Quarter-finals
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Cup Final: 1st/2nd place
Group A
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Group C
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Cup Semi Finals
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Bowl Semi Finals
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Bowl final:9th/10th Match
Quarter-finals
Cup Semi Finals
3rd/4th place
Cup Final: 1st/2nd place
Group A
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Group B
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Group C
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Cup Quarter Finals
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Plate Final: 5th/6th place
Cup Semi Finals
3rd/4th place
Cup Final: 1st/2nd place