London Sevens

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England playing Spain at the 2008 London Sevens,

The London Sevens is an annual rugby sevens tournament held at Twickenham Stadium in London. It is part of the World Rugby Sevens Series. London was added to the World Series for the first time in 2001.[1] For many years the London Sevens was the last tournament of each season but the Paris Sevens became the last stop on the calendar in 2018. The current titleholder of the London Sevens are Australia, who beat New Zealand in the 2022 final.

The London Sevens is one of the more popular stops on the World Series. The 2011 London Sevens set a single-day attendance record of over 54,000 fans, surpassing the attendance record set by the Dubai Sevens.[2] The tournament has also drawn over 100,000 fans over the course of the weekend, making it one of the largest attended recurring events on the Twickenham stadium calendar. [3]

2013 qualifier

Uniquely, the 2013 edition was not only the final event in the series, but also incorporated the World Series Core Team Qualifier. In Sevens Series terminology, "core teams" are those that are guaranteed a place in all series events in a given season. Unlike all other series events, the 2013 London Sevens had only 12 teams competing for series points, namely the top 12 core teams on the season points table following the season's penultimate tournament, the Scotland Sevens. The Core Team Qualifier involved eight teams—the winner of the HSBC Asian Sevens Series; four teams advancing from the World Series Pre-Qualifier, held as part of the Hong Kong Sevens; and the three core teams at the bottom of the season table after the Scotland Sevens. The top three teams at the end of the Core Team Qualifier became core teams for the next season.[4]

World Rugby, then known as the International Rugby Board, chose to change its core team qualifying process in advance of the 2013–14 series, reducing the number of promotion/relegation places from three to one, and also using only the Hong Kong Sevens for the core team qualifier. Accordingly, the London Sevens returned to its traditional 16-team format from 2014 forward.

Results by year

Year Template:PadVenueTemplate:Pad Cup final Placings
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2001 Twickenham Template:Ru7-big 19–12 Template:Ru7-big Template:Ru7-big Template:Ru7-big –
2002 Twickenham Template:Ru7-big 54–14 Template:Ru7-big Template:Ru7-big Template:Ru7-big Template:Ru7-big
2003 Twickenham Template:Ru7-big 31–24 Template:Ru7-big Template:Ru7-big Template:Ru7-big Template:Ru7-big
2004 Twickenham Template:Ru7-big 22–19 Template:Ru7-big Template:Ru7-big Template:Ru7-big Template:Ru7-big
2005 Twickenham Template:Ru7-big 21–12 Template:Ru7-big Template:Ru7-big Template:Ru7-big Template:Ru7-big
2006 Twickenham Template:Ru7-big 54–14 Template:Ru7-big Template:Ru7-big Template:Ru7-big Template:Ru7-big
2007 Twickenham Template:Ru7-big 29–7 Template:Ru7-big Template:Ru7-big Template:Ru7-big Template:Ru7-big
2008 Twickenham Template:Ru7-big 19–14 Template:Ru7-big Template:Ru7-big Template:Ru7-big Template:Ru7-big
2009 Twickenham Template:Ru7-big 26–7 Template:Ru7-big Template:Ru7-big Template:Ru7-big Template:Ru7-big
2010 Twickenham Template:Ru7-big 19–14 Template:Ru7-big Template:Ru7-big Template:Ru7-big Template:Ru7-big
2011 Twickenham Template:Ru7-big 24–14 Template:Ru7-big Template:Ru7-big Template:Ru7-big Template:Ru7-big
2012 Twickenham Template:Ru7-big 38–15 Template:Ru7-big Template:Ru7-big Template:Ru7-big Template:Ru7-big
2013 Twickenham Template:Ru7-big 47–12 Template:Ru7-big Template:Ru7-big Template:Ru7-big Template:Ru7-big
2014 Twickenham Template:Ru7-big 52–33 Template:Ru7-big Template:Ru7-big Template:Ru7-big Template:Ru7-big
2015 Twickenham Template:Ru7-big 45–22 Template:Ru7-big Template:Ru7-big Template:Ru7-big Template:Ru7-big
2016 Twickenham Template:Ru7-big 27–26 Template:Ru7-big Template:Ru7-big Template:Ru7-big Template:Ru7-big
Winner Score Runner-up Third Fourth Fifth
2017 Twickenham Template:Ru7-big 12–7 Template:Ru7-big Template:Ru7-big Template:Ru7-big Template:Ru7-big
2018 Twickenham Template:Ru7-big 21–17 Template:Ru7-big Template:Ru7-big Template:Ru7-big Template:Ru7-big
2019 Twickenham Template:Ru7-big 43–7 Template:Ru7-big Template:Ru7-big Template:Ru7-big Template:Ru7-big
World Series tournaments planned for London were cancelled in 2020Template:Hsp[5] and 2021,[6] due to impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.
2022 Twickenham Template:Ru7-big Template:Su Template:Ru7-big Template:Ru7-big Template:Ru7-big Template:Ru7-big
2023 Twickenham Template:Ru7-big 35–14 Template:Ru7-big Template:Ru7-big Template:Ru7-big Template:Ru7-big

Multiple winners

The teams that have won the tournament, as part of the World Rugby Sevens Series, on multiple occasions are:

Team Titles Years
New Zealand 5 2001, 2002, 2007, 2013, 2014
Fiji 4 2006, 2012, 2018, 2019
England 3 2003, 2004, 2009
Australia 2 2010, 2022
Scotland 2 2016, 2017
South Africa 2 2005, 2011

See also

References

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External links

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  1. ↑ "Twickenham: The Home of England Rugby", Phil McGowan, Amberley Publishing, 2014.
  2. ↑ "London Sevens break single day attendance record", All Blacks, 23 May 2011.
  3. ↑ "Twickenham: The Home of England Rugby", Phil McGowan, Amberley Publishing, 2014.
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