Netherlands women's national rugby sevens team

For the men's team, see Netherlands national rugby sevens team.

The Netherlands women's national rugby sevens team participated in the IRB Women's Sevens Challenge Cup in Hong Kong losing to Spain in the Plate semi-finals, they finished 8th overall. In October 2012, the Netherlands was announced by the International Rugby Board as one of six "core teams" that will compete in all four rounds of the inaugural IRB Women's Sevens World Series in 2012–13.^[1] The team finished seventh in the standings. It was later decided that the quarter-finalists at the 2013 Rugby World Cup Sevens would make up the eight core teams for the next series later that year.

Netherlands

Union	Dutch Rugby Union
Coach(es)	Chris Lane
Captain(s)	Anne Hielckert
Team kit
World Cup Sevens
Appearances	2 (First in 2009)
Best result	10th place, 2013

History

In the 2013–14 IRB Women's Sevens World Series they competed in only three tournaments, with a best results of 8th at São Paulo. The 2014–15 World Rugby Women's Sevens Series would double as an Olympics qualifier for Rio 2016. The Netherlands were not invited to any tournament, apart from the 2015 Netherlands Women's Sevens where they finished 11th. They missed their chances of any Olympic qualification after losing at the 2015 Rugby Europe Women's Sevens and the 2015 Rugby Europe Women's Sevens Olympic Repechage Tournament.^[2]

Netherlands won the 2018 Rugby Europe Women's Sevens Trophy and were promoted to the Grand Prix Series for 2019.^[3]

Tournament History

Rugby World Cup Sevens

Rugby World Cup Sevens
Year	Round	Position	Pld	W	L	D
2009	Bowl Quarterfinalists	13th	4	1	3	0
2013	Bowl Finalists	10th	6	3	3	0
2018	Did not qualify
Total	0 Titles	2/3	10	4	6	0

2012 Hong Kong Sevens

Pool C

Nation	Won	Drawn	Lost	For	Against
Australia	2	0	0	80	21
Netherlands	1	0	1	40	33
Hong Kong	0	0	2	5	71

•  Australia 28-21  Netherlands
•  Netherlands 19-5  Hong Kong

Finals

Plate semi finals

•  Netherlands 0-14  Spain

7th/8th

•  Russia 5-0  Netherlands

Players

Previous squads

Squad to IRB Women's Sevens Challenge Cup - 2012 London Sevens^[4]

• Linda Frannssen (c)
• Mara Moberg
• Dorien Eppink
• Inge Visser
• Joyce van Altena
• Anne Hielckert
• Lorraine Laros
• Annemarije van Rossum
• Pien Selbeck
• Kelly van Harskamp
• Yale Belder
• Alexia Mavroudis

Award winners

The following Netherlands Sevens players have been recognised at the World Rugby Awards since 2013:^[6]

World Rugby Women's 7s Player of the Year Year Nominees Winners 2013 Kelly van Harskamp —