Sevens World Cup 2022

The Sevens World Cup 2022 will be held from Friday 9 September to Sunday 11 September in Cape Town, South Africa.

The men’s and women’s tournaments will run concurrently, with New Zealand winners of the last two tournaments in both.

The All Blacks Sevens team seem the safest bet to lift the men’s trophy considering their recent pedigree in the competition

However, the volatile nature of sevens means several teams have genuine title aspirations, including England, South Africa and Olympic champions Fiji.

The 2022 iteration will be the seventh edition of the men’s Sevens World Cup. New Zealand have a record three titles, followed by Fiji with two, while England and Wales both have one each.

New Zealand will also be highly-fancied in the women’s tournament. As well as winning the last two World Cups, the Black Ferns have won six of the eight women’s World Sevens Series contested and claimed Olympic gold in 2021. Host South Africa, Australia and France are some of the other contenders.

The women’s event was only introduced in 2009, 16 years after the first men’s tournament. Australia won the inaugural competition in Dubai but New Zealand won the other two instalments in 2013 and 2018.

There will be 24 nations in the men’s World Cup and 16 in the women’s, with qualification still in progress for both tournaments.

Stay tuned over the coming weeks for all the information you need about the Sevens World Cup.

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