2017–18 World Rugby Sevens Series

The 2017–18 World Rugby Sevens Series, known for sponsorship reasons as the HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series, was the 19th annual series of rugby sevens tournaments for national men's rugby sevens teams. The Sevens Series has been run by World Rugby since 1999–2000.

2017–18 World Rugby Sevens
Series XIX
Hosts	United Arab Emirates South Africa Australia New Zealand United States Canada Hong Kong England France
Date	1 Dec 2017 – 10 Jun 2018
Nations	21
Final positions
Champions	South Africa
Runners-up	Fiji
Third	New Zealand
Series details
Top try scorer	Carlin Isles (49)
Top point scorer	Nathan Hirayama (334)
← 2016–17 2018–19 →

Core teams

•  Argentina
•  Australia
•  Canada
•  England
•  Fiji
•  France
•  Kenya
•  New Zealand
•  Russia
•  Samoa
•  Scotland
•  South Africa
•  Spain^[1]
•  United States
•  Wales

Tour venues

The official schedule for the 2017–18 World Rugby Sevens Series was as follows:^[2]

2017–18 Venues

Leg	Stadium	City	Dates	Winner
Dubai	The Sevens	Dubai	1–2 December 2017	South Africa
South Africa	Cape Town Stadium	Cape Town	9–10 December 2017	New Zealand
Australia	Allianz Stadium	Sydney	26–28 January 2018	Australia
New Zealand	FMG Stadium Waikato	Hamilton	3–4 February 2018	Fiji
United States	Sam Boyd Stadium	Las Vegas	2–4 March 2018	United States
Canada	BC Place	Vancouver	10–11 March 2018	Fiji
Hong Kong	Hong Kong Stadium	Hong Kong	6–8 April 2018	Fiji
Singapore	National Stadium	Singapore	28–29 April 2018	Fiji
England	Twickenham Stadium	London	2–3 June 2018	Fiji
France	Stade Jean-Bouin	Paris	8–10 June 2018	South Africa

There were several significant changes to the schedule:

• The New Zealand event moved from Wellington, which had hosted an event in every previous season of the series, to Hamilton.
• The Australia and New Zealand events will swap places in the tournament order.
• The schedule includes a break for the 2018 Commonwealth Games, which will hold its sevens tournament on 14–15 April at Gold Coast.
• The Paris and London Sevens, which swapped places in the season order, will take place several weeks later than usual in order to provide more rest for players, many of whom will have been involved in the Commonwealth Games.

Standings

For the tie-breaker rules, see World Rugby Sevens Series § Tiebreakers.

Official standings for the 2017–18 series:

2017–18 World Rugby Sevens – Series XIX

Pos.	Event  Team	Dubai	Cape Town	Sydney	Hamil­ton	Las Vegas	Van­couver	Hong Kong	Singa­pore	London	Paris	Points total
1	South Africa	22	17	19	19	15	17	17	15	19	22	182
2	Fiji	15	13	12	22	17	22	22	22	22	13	180
3	New Zealand	19	22	13	15	13	10	15	13	13	17	150
4	Australia	13	8	22	17	12	12	5	19	10	5	123
5	England	17	10	10	10	10	13	1	17	15	19	122
6	United States	1	12	15	8	22	15	12	8	12	12	117
7	Argentina	5	19	17	7	19	10	13	2	5	8	105
8	Kenya	10	3	10	12	10	19	19	10	8	3	104
9	Canada	5	15	3	5	7	2	7	7	10	15	76
10	Samoa	12	5	5	13	3	3	2	12	3	1	59
11	Spain	7	7	1	1	2	7	10	10	1	10	56
12	Scotland	10	1	2	10	5	8	10	5	2	2	55
13	France	8	10	8	3	8	1	8	1	1	5	53
14	Wales	3	5	7	2	5	5	3	5	7	7	49
15	Ireland	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	17	10	27
16	Russia	1	1	5	1	1	5	5	1	5	1	26
17	Papua New Guinea	–	–	1	5	–	–	–	–	–	–	6
18	Uganda	2	2	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	4
19	Japan	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	3	–	–	3
20	Uruguay	–	–	–	–	1	1	–	–	–	–	2
21	South Korea	–	–	–	–	–	–	1	–	–	–	1

Source: World Rugby. Archived ^[3]

Legend
No colour	Core team in 2017–18 and re-qualified as a core team for the 2018–19 World Rugby Sevens Series
Pink	Relegated as the lowest placed core team at the end of the 2017–18 season
Yellow	Not a core team

Placings summary

Tallies of top four tournament placings during the 2017–18 series, by team:

Team	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Fourth	Total
Fiji	5	–	1	1	7
South Africa	2	3	3	2	10
New Zealand	1	1	1	2	5
Australia	1	1	1	–	3
United States	1	–	–	2	3
Argentina	–	2	1	–	3
Kenya	–	2	–	–	2
England	–	1	2	1	4
Ireland	–	–	1	–	1
Canada	–	–	–	2	2
Totals	10	10	10	10	40

Players

Main article: 2017–18 World Rugby Sevens Series squads

Scoring leaders

Tries scored No. Player Tries 1 Carlin Isles 49 2 Luke Morgan 44 3 Dan Norton 38 4 Eroni Sau 37 Perry Baker 6 Justin Douglas 35 Seabelo Senatla 8 Ben O'Donnell 32 9 Willy Ambaka 31 10 Joe Ravouvou 28 John Porch Updated: 10 June 2018

Points scored No. Player Points 1 Nathan Hirayama 334 2 Amenoni Nasilasila 316 3 Tom Mitchell 263 4 Carlin Isles 247 5 Luke Morgan 220 6 Jean-Pascal Barraque 211 7 James Stannard 197 8 Dan Norton 190 Vatemo Ravouvou 10 Perry Baker 187 Updated: 10 June 2018

Awards

Impact player by tournament Tour Leg Player Points Ref. Dubai Alamanda Motuga Seabelo Senatla 50 [4] Cape Town Amenoni Nasilasila 60 [5] Sydney Ben O'Donnell 58 [6] Hamilton Seabelo Senatla 49 [7] Las Vegas Ben O'Donnell 52 [8] Vancouver Glenn Bryce 61 [9] Hong Kong Eroni Sau 53 [10] Singapore Ben O'Donnell 54 [11] London Martin Iosefo Owen Jenkins Billy Odhiambo Vladimir Ostroushko 46 [12] Paris Robbie Fergusson 50

Total impact player points Pos Player T B O C Total 1 Justin Douglas 105 47 29 173 386 2 Ben O'Donnell 191 47 26 184 348 3 Amenoni Nasilasila 132 45 33 120 330 4 Eroni Sau 126 54 29 119 328 5 Harry Jones 101 25 14 171 311 6 Ben Pinkelman 113 30 17 132 292 7 Martin Iosefo 76 35 43 137 291 8 Nathan Hirayama 79 37 28 135 279 9 Jerry Tuwai 65 47 33 118 263 10 John Porch 85 33 21 122 261

Updated: 5 June 2018

Player of the final award

Tour Leg	Winner	Ref.
Dubai	Kwagga Smith	[13]
Cape Town	Joe Ravouvou	[14]
Sydney	Lachlan Anderson	[15]
Hamilton	Alasio Naduva	[16]
Las Vegas	Danny Barrett	[17]
Vancouver	Sevuloni Mocenacagi	[18]
Hong Kong	Amenoni Nasilasila	[19]
Singapore	Waisea Nacuqu	[20]
London	Semi Radradra	[21]
Paris	Dewald Human

Updated: 5 June 2018

Tournaments

Dubai

Main article: 2017 Dubai Sevens

Event	Winners	Score	Finalists	Semi-finalists
Cup	South Africa	24–12	New Zealand	England (Bronze)  Fiji
5th Place	Australia	22–17	Samoa	Kenya  Scotland
Challenge Trophy	France	21–12	Spain	Argentina  Canada
13th Place	Wales	26–7	Uganda	Russia  United States

Cape Town

Main article: 2017 South Africa Sevens

Event	Winners	Score	Finalists	Semi-finalists
Cup	New Zealand	38–14	Argentina	South Africa (Bronze)  Canada
5th Place	Fiji	26–12	United States	England  France
Challenge Trophy	Australia	26–7	Spain	Samoa  Wales
13th Place	Kenya	24–14	Uganda	Russia  Scotland

Sydney

Main article: 2018 Sydney Sevens

Event	Winners	Score	Finalists	Semi-finalists
Cup	Australia	29–0	South Africa	Argentina (Bronze)  United States
5th Place	New Zealand	31–7	Fiji	England  Kenya
Challenge Trophy	France	29–12	Wales	Russia  Samoa
13th Place	Canada	14–12	Scotland	Papua New Guinea  Spain

Hamilton

Main article: 2018 New Zealand Sevens

Event	Winners	Score	Finalists	Semi-finalists
Cup	Fiji	24–17	South Africa	Australia (Bronze)  New Zealand
5th Place	Samoa	19–15	Kenya	Scotland  England
Challenge Trophy	United States	31–12	Argentina	Canada  Papua New Guinea
13th Place	France	19–17	Wales	Russia  Spain

Las Vegas

Main article: 2018 USA Sevens

Event	Winners	Score	Finalists	Semi-finalists
Cup	United States	28–0	Argentina	Fiji (Bronze)  South Africa
5th Place	New Zealand	17–12 (a.e.t.)	Australia	England  Kenya
Challenge Trophy	France	26–19	Canada	Scotland  Wales
13th Place	Samoa	28–7	Spain	Russia  Uruguay

Vancouver

Main article: 2018 Canada Sevens

Event	Winners	Score	Finalists	Semi-finalists
Cup	Fiji	31–12	Kenya	South Africa (Bronze)  United States
5th Place	England	31–14	Australia	Argentina  New Zealand
Challenge Trophy	Scotland	29–5	Spain	Russia  Wales
13th Place	Samoa	21–10	Canada	France  Uruguay

Hong Kong

Main article: 2018 Hong Kong Sevens

Event	Winners	Score	Finalists	Semi-finalists
Cup	Fiji	24–12	Kenya	South Africa (Bronze)  New Zealand
5th Place	Argentina	14–12	United States	Spain  Scotland
Challenge Trophy	France	33–7	Canada	Australia  Russia
13th Place	Wales	33–5	Samoa	England  South Korea
World Series Qualifier	Japan	19–14	Germany	Chile  Ireland

Singapore

Main article: 2018 Singapore Sevens

Event	Winners	Score	Finalists	Semi-finalists
Cup	Fiji	28–22	Australia	England (Bronze)  South Africa
5th Place	New Zealand	36–17	Samoa	Kenya  Spain
Challenge Trophy	United States	26–12	Canada	Scotland  Wales
13th Place	Japan	31–24	Argentina	France  Russia

London

Main article: 2018 London Sevens

Event	Winners	Score	Finalists	Semi-finalists
Cup	Fiji	21-17	South Africa	Ireland (Bronze)  England
5th Place	New Zealand	26-5	United States	Australia  Canada
Challenge Trophy	Kenya	33-19	Wales	Argentina  Russia
13th Place	Samoa	34-10	Scotland	France  Spain

Paris

Main article: 2018 Paris Sevens

Event	Winners	Score	Finalists	Semi-finalists
Cup	South Africa	24–14	England	New Zealand (Bronze)  Canada
5th Place	Fiji	28–7	United States	Ireland  Spain
Challenge Trophy	Argentina	33–26	Wales	Australia  France
13th Place	Kenya	21–20	Scotland	Russia  Samoa

See also

• Sports portal

• 2017–18 World Rugby Women's Sevens Series