2023 Oceania Sevens Championship

The 2023 Oceania Sevens Championship was the fifteenth Oceania Sevens tournament in men's rugby sevens. It also served as the regional qualifier for the 2024 Paris Olympic Sevens and was held at Ballymore Stadium in Brisbane, Australia from 10 to 12 November.^[1]

2023 Oceania Sevens Championship
Host nation	Australia
Date	10–12 November 2023
Cup
Champion	New Zealand
Runner-up	Samoa
Third	Fiji
Tournament details
Matches played	39
← 2022 2024 →

Teams

Fourteen national teams were scheduled to compete at the 2023 tournament, plus an Oceania invitational team:^[2][3]

•  American Samoa
•  Australia
•  Cook Islands
•  Fiji
•  Kiribati
•  Nauru
•  New Zealand
•  Niue
• Oceania Barbarians
•  Papua New Guinea
•  Samoa
•  Solomon Islands
•  Tonga
•  Tuvalu
•  Vanuatu

Format

Teams were seeded into three pools of five.^[4]

To allow a clear run for countries competing for qualification to the 2024 Summer Olympic Sevens, the three Oceania nations already qualified (Australia, Fiji and New Zealand) were placed in Pool A together with, Niue (not Olympic eligible) and the Oceania invitational team (Barbarians). The remaining teams were seeded into Pool B and Pool C for Olympic qualification.^[1]

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

Pool stage

Pool A (Championship)

Pos	Team	P	W	D	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification
1	Fiji	4	4	0	0	118	44	+74	12	Advance to finals
2	New Zealand	4	3	0	1	131	22	+109	10
3	Australia	4	2	0	2	103	47	+56	8	Middle classification
4	Oceania Barbarians	4	1	0	3	59	123	–64	6	Lower classification
5	Niue	4	0	0	4	22	197	–175	4	Fifteenth place

10 November 14:56

Fiji	47–5	Niue

Ballymore Stadium, Brisbane

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10 November 15:18

New Zealand	56–0	Oceania Barbarians

Ballymore Stadium, Brisbane

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10 November 18:58

Australia	24–0	Oceania Barbarians

Ballymore Stadium, Brisbane

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10 November 19:42

New Zealand	5–12	Fiji

Ballymore Stadium, Brisbane

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11 November 13:12

Fiji	31–12	Oceania Barbarians

Ballymore Stadium, Brisbane

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11 November 13:34

Australia	47–5	Niue

Ballymore Stadium, Brisbane

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11 November 16:30

New Zealand	56–0	Niue

Ballymore Stadium, Brisbane

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11 November 16:52

Fiji	28–22	Australia

Ballymore Stadium, Brisbane

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11 November 18:42

Niue	12–47	Oceania Barbarians

Ballymore Stadium, Brisbane

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11 November 19:26

New Zealand	14–10	Australia

Ballymore Stadium, Brisbane

Pool B (Olympic)

Pos	Team	P	W	D	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification
1	Samoa	4	4	0	0	184	0	+184	12	Advance to finals and Olympic qualifier
2	Solomon Islands	4	3	0	1	105	74	+31	10	Fifth place match
3	Cook Islands	4	2	0	2	62	75	–13	8	Middle classification
4	Tuvalu	4	1	0	3	48	96	–48	6	Middle classification
5	American Samoa	4	0	0	4	12	166	–154	4	Lower classification

10 November 14:12

Solomon Islands	50–5	American Samoa

Ballymore Stadium, Brisbane

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10 November 14:34

Samoa	36–0	Tuvalu

Ballymore Stadium, Brisbane

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10 November 18:14

Cook Islands	17–10	Tuvalu

Ballymore Stadium, Brisbane

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10 November 18:36

Samoa	50–0	Solomon Islands

Ballymore Stadium, Brisbane

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11 November 12:28

Solomon Islands	36–5	Tuvalu

Ballymore Stadium, Brisbane

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11 November 12:50

Cook Islands	31–0	American Samoa

Ballymore Stadium, Brisbane

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11 November 15:24

Solomon Islands	19–14	Cook Islands

Ballymore Stadium, Brisbane

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11 November 15:46

Samoa	52–0	American Samoa

Ballymore Stadium, Brisbane

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11 November 17:58

American Samoa	7–33	Tuvalu

Ballymore Stadium, Brisbane

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11 November 18:20

Samoa	46–0	Cook Islands

Ballymore Stadium, Brisbane

Pool C (Olympic)

Pos	Team	P	W	D	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification
1	Papua New Guinea	4	4	0	0	156	33	+123	12	Advance to finals and Olympic qualifier
2	Tonga	4	3	0	1	214	36	+178	10	Fifth place match
3	Vanuatu	4	2	0	2	43	136	–93	8	Middle classification
4	Nauru	4	1	0	3	43	109	–66	6	Middle classification
5	Kiribati	4	0	0	4	20	162	–142	4	Lower classification

10 November 13:28

Papua New Guinea	46–0	Kiribati

Ballymore Stadium, Brisbane

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10 November 13:50

Tonga	59–7	Nauru

Ballymore Stadium, Brisbane

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10 November 17:30

Vanuatu	19–5	Nauru

Ballymore Stadium, Brisbane

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10 November 17:52

Tonga	21–24	Papua New Guinea

Ballymore Stadium, Brisbane

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11 November 11:44

Papua New Guinea	31–5	Nauru

Ballymore Stadium, Brisbane

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11 November 12:06

Vanuatu	17–15	Kiribati

Ballymore Stadium, Brisbane

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11 November 14:40

Papua New Guinea	55–7	Vanuatu

Ballymore Stadium, Brisbane

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11 November 15:02

Tonga	73–5	Kiribati

Ballymore Stadium, Brisbane

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11 November 17:14

Kiribati	0–26	Nauru

Ballymore Stadium, Brisbane

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11 November 17:36

Tonga	61–0	Vanuatu

Ballymore Stadium, Brisbane

Classification

Thirteenth place match

12 November 13:28

Kiribati	5–12	American Samoa

Ballymore Stadium, Brisbane

Eleventh place match

12 November 13:50

Tuvalu	10–5	Nauru

Ballymore Stadium, Brisbane

Ninth place match

12 November 14:12

Oceania Barbarians	34–10	Vanuatu

Ballymore Stadium, Brisbane

Seventh place match

12 November 14:34

Australia	48–0	Cook Islands

Ballymore Stadium, Brisbane

Fifth place match

12 November 14:56

Solomon Islands	5–22	Tonga

Ballymore Stadium, Brisbane

Finals

	Semi-final				Championship final
	12 November 2023 – 15:18 – Ballymore Stadium
	A1  Fiji	17
					12 November 2023 – 20:00 – Ballymore Stadium      New Zealand 24      Samoa 19
	A2  New Zealand	24
	Olympic qualifier final 12 November 2023 – 15:40 – Ballymore Stadium
	B1  Samoa	24
					Third place
	C1  Papua New Guinea	0
					12 November 2023 – 19:08 – Ballymore Stadium
					Fiji	36
					Papua New Guinea	7

Semi-finals

12 November 15:18

Fiji	17–24	New Zealand

Ballymore Stadium, Brisbane

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Olympic qualifying match

12 November 15:40

Samoa	24–0	Papua New Guinea

Ballymore Stadium, Brisbane

Third place match

12 November 19:08

Fiji	36–7	Papua New Guinea

Ballymore Stadium, Brisbane

Championship final match

12 November 20:00

New Zealand	24–19	Samoa

Ballymore Stadium, Brisbane

Ranking

Place	Team	Qualification
	New Zealand	Already qualified for 2024 Olympics
	Samoa	Qualified for 2024 Olympics
	Fiji	Already qualified for 2024 Olympics
4	Papua New Guinea	Qualified for Olympic Repechage
5	Tonga
6	Solomon Islands
7	Australia	Already qualified for 2024 Olympics
8	Cook Islands
9	Oceania Barbarians	Not eligible for 2024 Olympics
10	Vanuatu
11	Tuvalu
12	Nauru
13	American Samoa
14	Kiribati
15	Niue	Not eligible for 2024 Olympics

See also

• 2023 Oceania Women's Sevens Championship