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The 2025 Australia Sevens or SVNS DXB was a rugby sevens tournament played at Perth Rectangular Stadium. Twelve men's teams and a similar number of women's teams participated. Twelve men's teams and a similar number of women's teams participated.
The 2024–25 SVNS is the 26th annual series of rugby sevens tournaments for national sevens teams, known as the SVNS. It will take place between November 2024 and June 2025. The SVNS has been run by World Rugby since 1999.
The first season of the World Sevens Series was the 1999–2000 season. At the Series launch, the chairman of the International Rugby Board, Vernon Pugh, described the IRB's vision of the role of this new competition: "this competition has set in place another important element in the IRB’s drive to establish rugby as a truly global sport, one with widespread visibility and steadily ...
The 2025 World Rugby Sevens Challenger Series for men's rugby sevens teams is the fifth season of the second-tier World Rugby Sevens Challenger Series that allows a promotion pathway to the top-level SVNS. The women's challenger tour with 12 national teams competing and will be played at same venues as their men's counterparts in Cape Town and ...
Argentina's men and Australia's women won their first sevens titles in Cape Town on Sunday and lead the world series. The Argentines blew away Australia 45-12 in the men's final, a week after ...
The Australian Rugby Football Union, later the Australian Rugby Union (ARU) and now known as Rugby Australia, continued the event for a further year in 1989. [2] The 2000 Brisbane Sevens was the first Australian Sevens tournament in the World Sevens Series run by the International Rugby Board (IRB), now known as World Rugby.
After setting records in the traditional game, ex-Wallabies captain Michael Hooper is ready to complete the transition to rugby sevens in a bid to play for Australia at the Paris Olympics. Hooper ...
The national sevens side is known as Australia and, as confirmed by captain Sharni Williams, does not have a nickname as of 2015. [6] The team was sometimes referred to as the Pearls in sections of the media, [7] but that name refers to Australia's developmental sevens side rather than the official national team. [6]