RWC Sevens 2018: Women’s Preview

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The Rugby World Cup Sevens kicks off in two days time in San Francisco, USA and it’ll be the Women’s competition that leads the way with fixtures starting on Friday 20th July at 18:00 UK/IRE.

It’s a whole new format for this World Cup with the knockout stages starting from the opening round. The sixten competing teams go head to head in round one with the winners remaining in the cup competition and the losers dropping into the Challenge Trophy. There are no second chances.

The fixtures for the opening round have been organised by seedings, as shown below, with the top seed playing the bottom seed and working towards the middle.

RWC SEVENS – WOMEN’S TOURNAMENT

TEAM
SEEDINGS

New Zealand
1

Australia
2

Canada
3

Russia
4

USA
5

France
6

Fiji
7

England
8

Ireland
9

Spain
10

Japan
11

China
12

South Africa
13

Brazil
14

Papua New Guinea
15

Mexico
16

 

This has resulted in the following fixtures (seeding in . . .

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