Canada national rugby sevens team

The Canada men’s national rugby sevens team competes at several international tournaments — the World Rugby Sevens Series, Rugby World Cup Sevens, Pan American Games and the Commonwealth Games.

This article is about the men's team. For the women's team, see Canada women's national rugby sevens team.
Canada
UnionRugby Canada
Emblem(s)The Maple Leaf
Coach(es)Henry Paul
Most capsNathan Hirayama (363)
Top scorerNathan Hirayama (1,859)
Most triesNathan Hirayama (147)
Team kit
Change kit
World Cup Sevens
Appearances7 (First in 1993)
Best result5th place, 2001

History
Main article: Rugby union in Canada

Honours

Current squad

Squad for the 2021-22 World Rugby Sevens Series.

Player
 Dubai I Dubai II Málaga Seville Singapore Vancouver Toulouse London Los Angeles
Nick Allen 33333
Noah Bain 1010
Phil Berma 4444
D'Shawn Bowen 9911
Cooper Coats 88888
Andrew Coe 44
Jarvis Dashkewytch 131313
Elias Ergas 111111111111
Sion Griffiths 99
Elias Hancock 3
Thomas Isherwood 121212126
Lachlan Kratz 10101010
Josiah Morra 666
Cody Nhanala 55
Anton Ngongo 7726
Matthew Oworu 1313813
Brenning Prevost 299
David Richards 1212
Alex Russel 5555
Theo Sauder 1111
Jake Thiel 2222
Brock Webster 7777

World Rugby Sevens Series
Main article: World Rugby Sevens Series

The principal competition in which the Canada national rugby sevens team regularly competes is the World Rugby Sevens Series. Canada is one of the core teams that plays in every Series tournament.

Results by season
Season Rank Points Tourn­aments 1st
Cup		 2nd
Silver		 3rd
Bronze		 5th
Plate		 9th
Bowl
1999–00 6th 60 10/10 0 - Wellington 0 0
2000–01 8th 26 9/9 0 0 - 0 Shanghai
2001–02 12th 8 10/11 0 0 - 0 0
2002–03 12th 6 7/7 0 0 - Hong Kong Wellington[1]
2003–04 9th 22 8/8 0 0 - 0 Dubai
Hong Kong[2]
2004–05 12th 2 7/7 0 0 - 0 USA
2005–06 12th 4 8/8 0 0 - 0 0
2006–07 13th 8 8/8 0 0 - 0 0
2007–08 16th 2 8/8 0 0 - 0 0
2008–09 15th 3 5/8 0 0 - 0 0
2009–10 11th 15 5/8 0 0 - 0 Hong Kong
London
2010–11 15th 5 5/8 0 0 - 0 Hong Kong
2011–12 13th 33 5/9 0 0 0 0 USA
2012–13 12th 69 9/9 0 0 0 USA Wellington
2013–14 6th 90 9/9 0 Scotland USA 0 London
2014–15 9th 67 9/9 0 0 0 0 South Africa
2015–16 13th 40 10/10 0 0 0 0 Sydney
Canada
2016–17 8th 98 10/10 Singapore 0 London 0 0
2017–18 9th 76 10/10 0 0 0 0 0
2018–19 11th 59 10/10 0 0 0 0 Paris
2019–20 8th 67 6/10[3] 0 0 Canada Hamilton 0
2021 4th 24 2/2 0 0 0 0 0
2021-22 12th 31 6/9 0 0 0 0 0

Third place games/Bronze finals were introduced in the 2011-12 season. Starting in the 2016-17 season, Silver and Bronze medals were introduced, 5th place replaced the Plate, the Challenge Trophy replace the Bowl, and the 13th place replaced the Shield.

Totals
Tournaments Played Won Lost Drawn Win Percentage Points Scored Points Conceded
1769584125281843.01%16,50118,445

Last updated: 13 April 2022.[4]

Major quadrennial tournaments

Canada competes to participate in two major global quadrennial tournaments — the Summer Olympics and the Rugby World Cup Sevens.

Summer Olympics
Olympic Games record
Year Round Pos Pld W L D Qualifying
2016 Did Not Qualify Lost 12-14 vs Russia in QF of the Final Qualification Tournament
2020 Quarterfinals 8th 6 1 5 0 Won 40–5 vs Jamaica at the 2019 RAN Sevens
Total0 Titles1/26150

Rugby World Cup Sevens
World Cup record
Year Round Position Pld W L D
1993 Bowl Semifinals =15th 6 2 4 0
1997 Bowl Quarterfinals =21st 5 0 5 0
2001 Quarterfinals =5th 6 3 3 0
2005 Group Stage =18th 8 3 5 0
2009 Plate Quarterfinals =13th 4 2 2 0
2013 Plate Champions 9th 6 5 1 0
2018 Challenge Trophy 12th 5 2 3 0
2022 Qualified
Total0 Titles7/74017230

Other tournaments

Commonwealth Games
Canada playing New Zealand at the 2014 Commonwealth Games
Commonwealth Games record
Year Round Position Pld W L D
1998 Quarterfinals 5th 5 3 1 1
2002 Plate semifinals 7th 5 2 3 0
2006 Quarterfinals 5th 4 2 2 0
2010 Bowl finals 10th 6 3 3 0
2014 Bowl champions 9th 6 4 2 0
2018 Pool round =9th 3 1 2 0
2022 Qualified
Total0 Titles6/62915131

Pan American Games

Pan Am Games record
Year Round Position Pld W L D
2011 Finals 1st 6 6 0 0
2015 Finals 1st 6 5 1 0
2019 Finals 2nd 5 3 2 0
Total2 Titles3/3171430

World Games

World Games record
Year Round Position Pld W L D
2001 Quarter-finals 6th 6 1 5 0
2005 Did not participate
2009 Did not participate
2013 Semi-finals 3rd 6 4 2 0
Total0 Titles2/412570
  • Rugby sevens was discontinued after the 2013 World Games due to the sport returning to the Olympics in 2016.

Player records

The following shows the Canadian statistical leaders based on World Series play.

Most matches
Rank Player Matches
1Nathan Hirayama363
2Harry Jones327
3John Moonlight318
4Phil Mack269
Mike Fuailefau269
6Justin Douglas239
7Conor Trainor214
8Pat Kay209
9Sean Duke201
10David Moonlight179
Most points
Rank Player Points
1Nathan Hirayama1,859
2Phil Mack973
3Harry Jones782
4Justin Douglas725
5Sean Duke622
6John Moonlight580
7David Moonlight553
8Mike Danskin480
9Marco di Girolamo392
10Shane Thompson375
Most tries
Rank Player Tries
1Nathan Hirayama147
2Justin Douglas144
3Harry Jones126
4Sean Duke124
5John Moonlight116
6David Moonlight107
7Phil Mack95
8Shane Thompson75
9Fred Asselin63
Mike Fuailefau63
Most conversions
Rank Player Conv
1Nathan Hirayama559
2Phil Mack246
3Mike Danskin135
4Jeff Williams105
5Harry Jones76
6Marco di Girolamo56
7Derek Daypuck42
8Cooper Coats41
9Ed Fairhurst37
Pat Kay37
Last updated: 25 April 2022.[5]

Note: Bold indicates active in 2021-22 season.

See also

References
  1. Match Archive, http://ur7s.com/match-archive?team_a=Canada&team_b=&series=HSBC+World+Sevens+Series&season=2002-2003&country=&tournament=&submit=Search Archived 2014-02-24 at the Wayback Machine
  2. Match Archive, http://ur7s.com/match-archive?team_a=Canada&team_b=&series=HSBC+World+Sevens+Series&season=2003-2004&country=&tournament=&submit=Search Archived 2014-02-24 at the Wayback Machine
  3. "World Rugby update on COVID-19 response measures and statement from Sir Bill Beaumont". www.world.rugby/. World Rugby. Retrieved 21 February 2021.
  4. SEVENS DOCUMENTS AND RESOURCES, http://www.worldrugby.org/sevens-series/docs-resources Archived 2016-02-01 at the Wayback Machine
  5. World Rugby Sevens Stats Hub, http://www.worldrugby.org/sevens-series/stats/alltime/players Archived 2016-05-29 at the Wayback Machine
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