New Zealand women's national rugby sevens team
The New Zealand women's national rugby sevens team is the reigning women's Rugby World Cup Sevens champions, having won the most recent edition in 2018.[1] The team has participated in all rounds of the World Rugby Women's Sevens Series since the competition's inception in 2012–13.[2][3] In 2018, the team won the Team of the Year award at the Halberg Awards.[4]
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| Union | New Zealand Rugby Union | ||
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| Nickname(s) | Black Ferns Sevens | ||
| Coach(es) | Cory Sweeney | ||
| Captain(s) | Sarah Hirini | ||
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| World Cup Sevens | |||
| Appearances | 3 (First in 2009) | ||
| Best result | Champions 2013, 2018 | ||
| Official website | |||
| www | |||
Tournament history
World Cup Sevens record
| Rugby World Cup Sevens | |||||||||
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| Year | Round | Position | Pld | W | L | D | |||
 2009 |
Final |  |
6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | |||
 2013 |
Final |  |
6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | |||
 2018 |
Final | |
4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | |||
 2022 |
Qualified | ||||||||
| Total | 2 Titles | 4/4 | 16 | 15 | 1 | 0 | |||
Summer Olympics record
| Olympic Games | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Round | Position | Pld | W | L | D | |||
 2016 |
Final | |
6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | |||
 2021 |
Final | |
6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Total | 1 Title | 2/2 | 12 | 11 | 1 | 0 | |||
Commonwealth Games record
| Commonwealth Games | |||||||||
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| Year | Round | Position | Pld | W | L | D | |||
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Final | |
5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | |||
 2022 |
Schedule to be confirmed | ||||||||
| Total | 1 Title | 1/1 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | |||
Oceania Women's Sevens results
| Oceania Women's Sevens | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Round | Position | Pld | W | L | D | |||
 2008 |
Final | |
6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | |||
 2012 |
Final | |
6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | |||
| 2013 |
Semi Finalist |  |
6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | |||
| 2014 |
Final | |
7 | 7 | 0 | 0 | |||
 2015 |
Did not attend | ||||||||
| 2016 |
Did not attend | ||||||||
| 2017 |
Final | |
5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | |||
| 2018 |
Final | |
5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | |||
| 2019 |
Semi Finalist | |
5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | |||
| 2020 | No tournament | ||||||||
| 2021 |
Round-robin | |
6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Total | 4 Titles | 8/10 | 46 | 40 | 6 | 0 | |||
World Series record
2010s
Summary for Series I to VIII
| Women's Sevens Series | |||||
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Challenge
11–12 |
I
12–13 |
II
13–14 |
III
14–15 | |
| Middle East | Dubai |
st Dubai |
nd Dubai |
st Dubai | |
| Oceania | – | – | – | – | |
| Americas | – | – | nd São Paulo |
st São Paulo | |
| – | 4th Houston |
st Atlanta |
st Atlanta | ||
| – | – | – | st Victoria | ||
| Asia | Hong Kong |
st Guangzhou |
st Guangzhou |
– | |
| Europe | London |
– | – | rd London | |
| – | st Amsterdam |
st Amsterdam |
5th Amsterdam | ||
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0/3
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4/4 74 pts
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5/5 96 pts
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6/6 108 pts
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| Women's Sevens Series | ||||||
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| IV
15–16 |
V
16–17 |
VI
17–18 |
VII
18–19 |
VIII
19–20 | ||
| 5th Dubai |
st Dubai |
5th Dubai |
st Dubai |
st Dubai | ||
| – | rd Sydney |
nd Sydney |
st Sydney |
st Sydney | ||
| rd São Paulo |
– | – | – | – | ||
| nd Atlanta |
st Las Vegas |
– | st Glendale |
rd Glendale | ||
| nd Victoria |
st Victoria |
st Victoria |
st Victoria |
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| – | st Kitakyushu |
st Kitakyushu |
5th Kitakyushu |
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| – | – | |||||
| rd Clermont-Ferrand |
st Clermont-Ferrand |
st Paris |
nd Biarritz |
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| 5/5 80 pts
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6/6 116 pts
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5/5 90 pts
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6/6 110 pts
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5/5 96 pts
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Players
Current squad
Previous squads
Olympics
Rugby World Cup Sevens
Commonwealth Games
Notable Players
Honours
Lineout for New Zealand playing Australia at the Dubai Women Sevens tournament in 2012
New Zealand did not have any official sevens team for women so they were unofficially represented by the "New Zealand Wild Ducks" and the "Aotearoa Maori New Zealand" teams during the years they were playing.
- 1997 Hong Kong Women's Sevens Winners
- 1999 Hong Kong Women's Sevens Winners
- 2000 Hong Kong Women's Sevens Winners
- 2001 Hong Kong Women's Sevens Winners
- 2002 Hong Kong Women's Sevens Winners
- 2003 Hong Kong Women's Sevens Winners
- 2004 Hong Kong Women's Sevens Winners
- 2005 Hong Kong Women's Sevens Winners
- 2006 Hong Kong Women's Sevens Winners
- 2007 Hong Kong Women's Sevens Winners
- 2012 Oceania Women's Sevens Winners
- 2012-13 World Rugby Women's Sevens Series Winners
- 2013 Rugby World Cup Sevens Winners
- 2013-14 World Rugby Women's Sevens Series Winners
- 2014 Oceania Women's Sevens Winners
- 2014-15 World Rugby Women's Sevens Series Winners
- 2016-17 World Rugby Women's Sevens Series Winners
- 2017 Oceania Women's Sevens Winners
- 2018 Rugby Sevens at the Commonwealth Games Gold Medalists
- 2018 Rugby World Cup Sevens Winners
- 2018-19 World Rugby Women's Sevens Series Winners
- 2019 Women's Fast Four Winners
- 2019-20 World Rugby Women's Sevens Series Winners
- 2021 Oceania Women's Sevens Winners
- 2021 2020 Summer Olympics Gold Medalists
References
- "New Zealand are Women's RWC Sevens champions" (Press release). International Rugby Board. 30 June 2013. Archived from the original on 4 October 2013. Retrieved 4 October 2013.
- "IRB announces Women's Sevens World Series" (Press release). International Rugby Board. 4 October 2012. Archived from the original on 19 October 2014. Retrieved 4 October 2012.
- "Schedule announced for 2013/14 Women's Series" (Press release). International Rugby Board. 22 August 2013. Archived from the original on 5 October 2013. Retrieved 2 October 2013.
- "Black Ferns Sevens win Halberg Team of the Year". allblacks.com. Retrieved 2021-05-23.
- "2013 IRB Women's Sevens Standings". Rugby7.
- "2014 IRB Women's Sevens Standings". Rugby7.
External links
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