2019 USA Women's Sevens
# 2019 USA Women's Sevens

The 2019 USA Women's Sevens was a rugby sevens tournament that takes place at Infinity Park in Glendale, Colorado between the 5-6 October 2019. It was the seventh time that the USA Women's Sevens have been held as an World Series event and was the first tournament of the 2019–20 World Rugby Women's Sevens Series.

In the cup final, the United States won their first USA Women's Sevens since the tournament became a World Series event as they defeated Australia 26–7 in the final. New Zealand came home in third place after defeating France 31–14 while England won the Challenge Trophy over Japan.

## Background

The 2019 USA Women's Sevens is the first round of eight tournaments for the 2019–20 World Rugby Women's Sevens Series and the seventh since the tournament became a part of the World Series. During the off-season, qualifying for the 2020 Summer Olympics continued in the continental with England qualifying through to the Olympic Games as Great Britain with a 19-0 victory over Russia. France joined Russia in qualifying for the repcharge event.

## Format

The twelve teams are drawn into three pools of four teams each with each team playing their other three opponents in their pool once. Points are awarded in each pool on the standard schedule for rugby sevens tournaments (though different from the standard in the 15-man game)—3 for a win, 2 for a draw, 1 for a loss. The top two teams from each pool advance to the Cup brackets while the top two third place teams also compete in the Cup. The remaining four teams will compete in the Challenge Trophy.

## Teams

Twelve teams will compete in the tournament with eleven teams being core teams to the Sevens Series. The twelfth team, Japan was invited to the tournament.

* Australia
* Brazil
* Canada
* England
* Fiji
* France
* Ireland
* Japan
* New Zealand
* Russia
* Spain
* United States

## Pool stage

Key to colours in group tables :

* Teams that advanced to the Cup Quarterfinal

### Pool A

| Team | Pld | W | D | L | PF | PA | PD | Pts |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| New Zealand | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 116 | 19 | +97 | 9 |
| Russia | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 79 | 62 | +17 | 7 |
| England | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 43 | 88 | −45 | 5 |
| Japan | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 21 | 90 | −69 | 3 |

* 5 October 2019 11:21

| England | 22–38 | Russia |
| - | - | - |

* Infinity Park, Glendale
* 5 October 2019 11:43

| New Zealand | 40–7 | Japan |
| - | - | - |

* Infinity Park, Glendale
* 5 October 2019 14:05

| England | 21–14 | Japan |
| - | - | - |

* Infinity Park, Glendale
* 5 October 2019 14:27

| New Zealand | 40–12 | Russia |
| - | - | - |

* Infinity Park, Glendale
* 5 October 2019 17:05

| Russia | 29–0 | Japan |
| - | - | - |

* Infinity Park, Glendale
* 5 October 2019 17:33

| New Zealand | 36–0 | England |
| - | - | - |

* Infinity Park, Glendale

### Pool B

| Team | Pld | W | D | L | PF | PA | PD | Pts |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| France | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 90 | 26 | +64 | 9 |
| United States | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 86 | 31 | +55 | 7 |
| Ireland | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 42 | 90 | −48 | 5 |
| Brazil | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 12 | 93 | −81 | 3 |

* 5 October 2019 10:37

| France | 28–7 | Ireland |
| - | - | - |

* Infinity Park, Glendale
* 5 October 2019 10:59

| United States | 27–0 | Brazil |
| - | - | - |

* Infinity Park, Glendale
* 5 October 2019 13:21

| France | 38–5 | Brazil |
| - | - | - |

* Infinity Park, Glendale
* 5 October 2019 13:43

| United States | 45–7 | Ireland |
| - | - | - |

* Infinity Park, Glendale
* 5 October 2019 16:05

| Ireland | 28–7 | Brazil |
| - | - | - |

* Infinity Park, Glendale
* 5 October 2019 16:35

| United States | 14–24 | France |
| - | - | - |

* Infinity Park, Glendale

### Pool C

| Team | Pld | W | D | L | PF | PA | PD | Pts |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Australia | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 92 | 38 | +54 | 8 |
| Canada | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 76 | 47 | +29 | 8 |
| Spain | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 48 | 71 | −23 | 5 |
| Fiji | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 35 | 95 | −60 | 3 |

* 5 October 2019 9:53

| Australia | 31–5 | Spain |
| - | - | - |

* Infinity Park, Glendale
* 5 October 2019 10:15

| Canada | 31–7 | Fiji |
| - | - | - |

* Infinity Park, Glendale
* 5 October 2019 12:37

| Australia | 35–7 | Fiji |
| - | - | - |

* Infinity Park, Glendale
* 5 October 2019 12:59

| Canada | 19–14 | Spain |
| - | - | - |

* Infinity Park, Glendale
* 5 October 2019 15:21

| Spain | 29–21 | Fiji |
| - | - | - |

* Infinity Park, Glendale
* 5 October 2019 15:43

| Canada | 26–26 | Australia |
| - | - | - |

* Infinity Park, Glendale

## Knockout stage

### Challenge Trophy

| Semi-finals | Semi-finals | Challenge Trophy Final | Challenge Trophy Final |
| - | - | - | - |
| 6 October 2019 – 11:39 – Infinity Park | 6 October 2019 – 11:39 – Infinity Park |
| England | 34 |
| England | 34 | 6 October 2019 – 15:37 – Infinity Park | 6 October 2019 – 15:37 – Infinity Park |
| Brazil | 14 | 6 October 2019 – 15:37 – Infinity Park | 6 October 2019 – 15:37 – Infinity Park |
| Brazil | 14 | England | 36 |
| 6 October 2019 – 12:01 – Infinity Park | 6 October 2019 – 12:01 – Infinity Park | | England | 36 |
| 6 October 2019 – 12:01 – Infinity Park | 6 October 2019 – 12:01 – Infinity Park | Japan | 14 |
| Fiji | 19 | Japan | 14 |
| Japan | 21 | | |

Matches :

### Fifth place

| Semi-finals | Semi-finals | Final | Final |
| - | - | - | - |
| 6 October 2019 – 13:17 – Infinity Park | 6 October 2019 – 13:17 – Infinity Park |
| Spain | 24 |
| Spain | 24 | 6 October 2019 – 16:01 – Infinity Park | 6 October 2019 – 16:01 – Infinity Park |
| Russia | 19 | 6 October 2019 – 16:01 – Infinity Park | 6 October 2019 – 16:01 – Infinity Park |
| Russia | 19 | Spain | 12 |
| 6 October 2019 – 13:39 – Infinity Park | 6 October 2019 – 13:39 – Infinity Park | | Spain | 12 |
| 6 October 2019 – 13:39 – Infinity Park | 6 October 2019 – 13:39 – Infinity Park | Canada | 7 |
| Canada | 40 | Canada | 7 |
| Ireland | 14 | | |

Matches :

### Cup

| Quarter-finals | Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Semi-finals | | Cup Final | Cup Final |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 6 October 2019 – 10:11 – Infinity Park | 6 October 2019 – 10:11 – Infinity Park | | | |
| France | 26 | | | |
| France | 26 | 6 October 2019 – 14:01 – Infinity Park | 6 October 2019 – 14:01 – Infinity Park | | |
| Spain | 7 | 6 October 2019 – 14:01 – Infinity Park | 6 October 2019 – 14:01 – Infinity Park | |
| Spain | 7 | France | 0 | |
| 6 October 2019 – 10:33 – Infinity Park | 6 October 2019 – 10:33 – Infinity Park | | France | 0 | |
| 6 October 2019 – 10:33 – Infinity Park | 6 October 2019 – 10:33 – Infinity Park | Australia | 40 | |
| Australia | 38 | Australia | 40 | |
| Australia | 38 | | | | 6 October 2019 – 16:58 – Infinity Park | 6 October 2019 – 16:58 – Infinity Park |
| Russia | 0 | | | | 6 October 2019 – 16:58 – Infinity Park | 6 October 2019 – 16:58 – Infinity Park |
| Russia | 0 | | | | Australia | 7 |
| 6 October 2019 – 10:55 – Infinity Park | 6 October 2019 – 10:55 – Infinity Park | | | | | Australia | 7 |
| 6 October 2019 – 10:55 – Infinity Park | 6 October 2019 – 10:55 – Infinity Park | | | | United States | 26 |
| United States | 29 | | | | United States | 26 |
| United States | 29 | 6 October 2019 – 14:23 – Infinity Park | 6 October 2019 – 14:23 – Infinity Park | | | |
| Canada | 26 | 6 October 2019 – 14:23 – Infinity Park | 6 October 2019 – 14:23 – Infinity Park | | | |
| Canada | 26 | United States | 19 | | | |
| 6 October 2019 – 11:17 – Infinity Park | 6 October 2019 – 11:17 – Infinity Park | | United States | 19 | | | |
| 6 October 2019 – 11:17 – Infinity Park | 6 October 2019 – 11:17 – Infinity Park | New Zealand | 17 | | Third place | Third place |
| New Zealand | 36 | New Zealand | 17 | | Third place | Third place |
| New Zealand | 36 | | | | 6 October 2019 – 16:28 – Infinity Park | 6 October 2019 – 16:28 – Infinity Park |
| Ireland | 10 | | | | 6 October 2019 – 16:28 – Infinity Park | 6 October 2019 – 16:28 – Infinity Park |
| Ireland | 10 | | | | France | 14 |
| | | | | | New Zealand | 31 |

Matches :

## Tournament placings

| Place | Team | Points |
| - | - | - |
| | United States | 20 |
| | Australia | 18 |
| | New Zealand | 16 |
| 4 | France | 14 |
| 5 | Spain | 12 |
| 6 | Canada | 10 |
| Place | Team | Points |
| 7 | Russia | 8 |
| 8 | Ireland | 6 |
| 9 | England | 4 |
| 10 | Japan | 3 |
| 11 | Fiji | 2 |
| 12 | Brazil | 1 |

Source: World Rugby

## Players

### Scoring leaders

Source: World Rugby Archived 2019-10-07 at the Wayback Machine

Source: World Rugby Archived 2019-06-24 at the Wayback Machine

### Dream Team

The following seven players were selected for the tournament Dream Team at the conclusion of the tournament:

| Backs | Forwards |
| - | - |
| Charlotte Caslick Kristi Kirshe Kelly Brazier Emma Tonegato | Cheta Emba Chloé Pelle Stacey Waaka |
