2019 Oceania Sevens Championship

The 2019 Oceania Sevens Championship was the twelfth Oceania Sevens tournament in men's rugby sevens. It served as the regional qualifier for the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Sevens and was held at ANZ Stadium in Suva, Fiji on 7–9 November.^[1] A competition for deaf teams was also included as part of the 2019 Oceania Sevens.^[2]

2019 Oceania Sevens Championship
Host nation	Fiji
Date	7–9 November 2019
Cup
Champion	Australia (4th title)
Runner-up	Fiji
Third	Japan
Tournament details
Matches played	43
← 2018 2021 →

Australia won the main men's tournament to claim their fourth Oceania Championship, defeating Fiji by 22–7 in the final. As the highest-placed side not already qualified, Australia also won the Oceania berth at the 2020 Olympic Sevens in Tokyo.

Samoa and Tonga finished fourth and fifth respectively and, as the second and third highest-placed sides not already qualified, won entry to the 2020 Final Olympic Qualifier.

Tonga and Papua New Guinea, as the two highest-placed sides without core status on the World Rugby Sevens Series, won entry to the 2020 Challenger Series for a chance to qualify for the 2020–21 World Sevens Series.

Teams

Fifteen national teams competed at the 2019 tournament, including an invited sevens development side from Japan:^[1]

•  American Samoa
•  Australia
•  Cook Islands
•  Fiji
•  Japan^{[note 1]}
•  Nauru
•  New Caledonia
•  Niue
•  New Zealand
•  Papua New Guinea
•  Samoa
•  Solomon Islands
•  Tonga
•  Tuvalu
•  Vanuatu

Format

Teams were seeded into three pools of five.^[3]

To allow a clear run for countries competing for qualification to the 2020 Olympic Sevens, the two Oceania nations already qualified, Fiji and New Zealand, were placed in Pool A together with the invited development side from Japan, New Caledonia (not Olympic eligible) and Niue. The remaining teams were seeded into Pool B and Pool C.

A playoff between the winners of Pool B and Pool C decided the Olympic qualifying berth.

Pool stage

Pool A (International)

Pos	Team	P	W	D	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification
1	Fiji	4	4	0	0	175	15	+160	12	Advance to title playoffs
2	Japan	4	3	0	1	98	45	+53	10	Advance to title playoffs
3	New Zealand	4	2	0	2	124	38	+86	8	Middle classification
4	New Caledonia	4	1	0	3	17	180	–163	6	Lower classification
5	Niue	4	0	0	4	7	143	–136	4	Fifteenth place

7 November 13:12

New Zealand	57–0	New Caledonia

ANZ Stadium, Suva

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7 November 13:34

Fiji	57–0	Niue

ANZ Stadium, Suva

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7 November 16:08

New Zealand	38–0	Niue

ANZ Stadium, Suva

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7 November 16:30

Japan	50–0	New Caledonia

ANZ Stadium, Suva

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7 November 19:04

New Caledonia	17–7	Niue

ANZ Stadium, Suva

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7 November 19:26

Fiji	31–0	Japan

ANZ Stadium, Suva

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8 November 14:40

New Zealand	14–17	Japan

ANZ Stadium, Suva

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8 November 15:02

Fiji	66–0	New Caledonia

ANZ Stadium, Suva

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8 November 19:04

Japan	31–0	Niue

ANZ Stadium, Suva

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8 November 19:26

Fiji	21–15	New Zealand

ANZ Stadium, Suva

Pool B (Olympic)

Pos	Team	P	W	D	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification
1	Samoa	4	4	0	0	156	7	+149	12	Advance to title playoffs
2	Papua New Guinea	4	3	0	1	77	50	+27	10	Fifth place match
3	Solomon Islands	4	2	0	2	45	88	–43	8	Middle classification
4	Cook Islands	4	1	0	3	50	88	–38	6	Middle classification
5	Tuvalu	4	0	0	4	24	119	–95	4	Lower classification

7 November 12:28

Cook Islands	31–19	Tuvalu

ANZ Stadium, Suva

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7 November 12:50

Samoa	33–7	Papua New Guinea

ANZ Stadium, Suva

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7 November 15:24

Cook Islands	5–17	Papua New Guinea

ANZ Stadium, Suva

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7 November 15:46

Solomon Islands	12–5	Tuvalu

ANZ Stadium, Suva

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7 November 18:20

Tuvalu	0–29	Papua New Guinea

ANZ Stadium, Suva

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7 November 18:42

Samoa	45–0	Solomon Islands

ANZ Stadium, Suva

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8 November 13:56

Cook Islands	14–21	Solomon Islands

ANZ Stadium, Suva

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8 November 14:18

Samoa	47–0	Tuvalu

ANZ Stadium, Suva

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8 November 18:20

Solomon Islands	12–24	Papua New Guinea

ANZ Stadium, Suva

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8 November 18:42

Samoa	41–0	Cook Islands

ANZ Stadium, Suva

Pool C (Olympic)

Pos	Team	P	W	D	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification
1	Australia	4	4	0	0	201	7	+194	12	Advance to title playoffs
2	Tonga	4	3	0	1	97	44	+53	10	Fifth place match
3	American Samoa	4	2	0	2	41	116	–75	8	Middle classification
4	Vanuatu	4	1	0	3	43	119	–76	6	Lower classification
5	Nauru	4	0	0	4	33	129	–96	4	Lower classification

7 November 11:44

Tonga	29–5	American Samoa

ANZ Stadium, Suva

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7 November 12:06

Australia	52–7	Vanuatu

ANZ Stadium, Suva

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7 November 14:40

Tonga	34–10	Vanuatu

ANZ Stadium, Suva

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7 November 15:02

Nauru	14–17	American Samoa

ANZ Stadium, Suva

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7 November 17:36

American Samoa	19–7	Vanuatu

ANZ Stadium, Suva

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7 November 17:58

Australia	59–0	Nauru

ANZ Stadium, Suva

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8 November 13:12

Tonga	34–5	Nauru

ANZ Stadium, Suva

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8 November 13:34

Australia	66–0	American Samoa

ANZ Stadium, Suva

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8 November 17:36

Nauru	14–19	Vanuatu

ANZ Stadium, Suva

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8 November 17:58

Australia	24–0	Tonga

ANZ Stadium, Suva

Knockout stage

Lower classification

	11th–14th playoffs				Eleventh place
	9 November 2019 – 10.44 – ANZ Stadium
	New Caledonia	7
					9 November 2019 – 13.18 – ANZ Stadium
	Tuvalu	12
					Tuvalu	17
	9 November 2019 – 11.06 – ANZ Stadium
					Nauru	12
	Vanuatu	14
	Nauru	22
					Thirteenth place
					9 November 2019 – 13.40 – ANZ Stadium
					New Caledonia	7
					Vanuatu	24

Middle classification

	7th–10th playoffs				Seventh place
	9 November 2019 – 11.50 – ANZ Stadium
	Solomon Islands	35
					9 November 2019 – 14.24 – ANZ Stadium
	American Samoa	5
					Solomon Islands	7
	9 November 2019 – 11.28 – ANZ Stadium
					New Zealand	39
	New Zealand	64
	Cook Islands	0
					Ninth place
					9 November 2019 – 14.02 – ANZ Stadium
					American Samoa	34
					Cook Islands	0

Fifth place match

	9 November 2019 – 17.20 – ANZ Stadium
	Papua New Guinea	0
					Fifth place
	Tonga	31

Title playoffs

	International playoff				Oceania final
	9 November 2019 – 16.14 – ANZ Stadium
	A1  Fiji	33
					9 November 2019 – 19.50 – ANZ Stadium      Fiji 7      Australia 22
	A2  Japan	0
	Olympic qualifier 9 November 2019 – 16.36 – ANZ Stadium
	B1  Samoa	12
					Third place
	C1  Australia	19
					9 November 2019 – 18.57 – ANZ Stadium
					Japan	26
					Samoa	21

Placings

Place	Team	Qualification
	Australia	Direct qualification to the Olympic Sevens for 2020
	Fiji
	Japan
4	Samoa	Entry to Olympic qualifier for 2020
5	Tonga	Entry to Olympic qualifier and World Challenger Series for 2020
6	Papua New Guinea	Entry to World Challenger Series for 2020
7	New Zealand
8	Solomon Islands
9	American Samoa
10	Cook Islands
11	Tuvalu
12	Nauru
13	Vanuatu
14	New Caledonia
15	Niue

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Legend
Light bar	Already a core team in World Series and previously qualified to the Olympic Sevens for 2020
Dark bar	Already a core team in World Series for 2020
Dotted bar	Invited team not eligible for qualification from Oceania

See also

• 2019 Oceania Women's Sevens Championship

Notes

1. Japan sent a national sevens development squad to the tournament and thus did not compete as the national team.