2018 Canada Women's Sevens
# 2018 Canada Women's Sevens

The 2018 Canada Women's Sevens was the fourth tournament within the 2017–18 World Rugby Women's Sevens Series and the fourth edition of the Canada Women's Sevens to be played in the series. It was held over the weekend of 12–13 May 2018 at Westhills Stadium in Langford, British Columbia.

## Format

The teams are drawn into three pools of four teams each. Each team plays every other team in their pool once. The top two teams from each pool advance to the Cup brackets while the top 2 third place teams also compete in the Cup/Plate. The other teams from each group play-off for the Challenge Trophy.

## Teams

Eleven core teams are participating in the tournament along with one invited team, Brazil:

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

## Pool stage

All times in Pacific Daylight Time (UTC−07:00)

### Pool A

| Team | Pld | W | D | L | PF | PA | PD | Pts |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| New Zealand | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 85 | 7 | +78 | 9 |
| Fiji | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 78 | 40 | +38 | 7 |
| England | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 45 | 63 | –18 | 5 |
| Brazil | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 31 | 129 | –98 | 3 |

### Pool B

| Team | Pld | W | D | L | PF | PA | PD | Pts |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| France | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 100 | 26 | +74 | 9 |
| United States | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 82 | 43 | +39 | 7 |
| Japan | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 38 | 68 | –30 | 5 |
| Russia | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 21 | 104 | –83 | 3 |

### Pool C

| Team | Pld | W | D | L | PF | PA | PD | Pts |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Australia | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 96 | 36 | +60 | 9 |
| Canada | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 50 | 49 | +1 | 7 |
| Ireland | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 43 | 50 | –7 | 5 |
| Spain | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 20 | 74 | –54 | 3 |

## Knockout stage

### Challenge Trophy

| Semi-finals | Semi-finals | Final | Final |
| - | - | - | - |
| 13 May 2018 – 10:48 – Westhills Stadium, Langford | 13 May 2018 – 10:48 – Westhills Stadium, Langford |
| Japan | 31 |
| Japan | 31 | 13 May 2018 – 14:16 – Westhills Stadium, Langford | 13 May 2018 – 14:16 – Westhills Stadium, Langford |
| Brazil | 21 | 13 May 2018 – 14:16 – Westhills Stadium, Langford | 13 May 2018 – 14:16 – Westhills Stadium, Langford |
| Brazil | 21 | Japan | 26 |
| 13 May 2018 – 11:10 – Westhills Stadium, Langford | 13 May 2018 – 11:10 – Westhills Stadium, Langford | | Japan | 26 |
| 13 May 2018 – 11:10 – Westhills Stadium, Langford | 13 May 2018 – 11:10 – Westhills Stadium, Langford | Spain | 21 |
| Spain | 14 | Spain | 21 |
| Russia | 7 | | |
| Russia | 7 | Third place | Third place |
| | | 13 May 2018 – 13:54 – Westhills Stadium, Langford | 13 May 2018 – 13:54 – Westhills Stadium, Langford |
| | | Brazil | 24 (a.e.t.) |
| | | Russia | 19 |

Matches :

### 5th place

| Semi-finals | Semi-finals | Final | Final |
| - | - | - | - |
| 13 May 2018 – 12:26 – Westhills Stadium, Langford | 13 May 2018 – 12:26 – Westhills Stadium, Langford |
| Ireland | 19 |
| Ireland | 19 | 13 May 2018 – 15:32 – Westhills Stadium, Langford | 13 May 2018 – 15:32 – Westhills Stadium, Langford |
| Fiji | 7 | 13 May 2018 – 15:32 – Westhills Stadium, Langford | 13 May 2018 – 15:32 – Westhills Stadium, Langford |
| Fiji | 7 | Ireland | 12 |
| 13 May 2018 – 12:48 – Westhills Stadium, Langford | 13 May 2018 – 12:48 – Westhills Stadium, Langford | | Ireland | 12 |
| 13 May 2018 – 12:48 – Westhills Stadium, Langford | 13 May 2018 – 12:48 – Westhills Stadium, Langford | Canada | 29 |
| Canada | 35 | Canada | 29 |
| England | 12 | | |
| England | 12 | Seventh Place | Seventh Place |
| | | 13 May 2018 – 15:10 – Westhills Stadium, Langford | 13 May 2018 – 15:10 – Westhills Stadium, Langford |
| | | Fiji | 24 |
| | | England | 29 |

Matches :

### Cup

| Quarter-finals | Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Semi-finals | | Final | Final |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 13 May 2018 – 9:20 – Westhills Stadium, Langford | 13 May 2018 – 9:20 – Westhills Stadium, Langford | | | |
| France | 27 | | | |
| France | 27 | 13 May 2018 – 13:10 – Westhills Stadium, Langford | 13 May 2018 – 13:10 – Westhills Stadium, Langford | | |
| Ireland | 0 | 13 May 2018 – 13:10 – Westhills Stadium, Langford | 13 May 2018 – 13:10 – Westhills Stadium, Langford | |
| Ireland | 0 | France | 12 | |
| 13 May 2018 – 9:42 – Westhills Stadium, Langford | 13 May 2018 – 9:42 – Westhills Stadium, Langford | | France | 12 | |
| 13 May 2018 – 9:42 – Westhills Stadium, Langford | 13 May 2018 – 9:42 – Westhills Stadium, Langford | Australia | 17 (a.e.t.) | |
| Australia | 21 | Australia | 17 (a.e.t.) | |
| Australia | 21 | | | | 13 May 2018 – 16:20 – Westhills Stadium, Langford | 13 May 2018 – 16:20 – Westhills Stadium, Langford |
| Fiji | 5 | | | | 13 May 2018 – 16:20 – Westhills Stadium, Langford | 13 May 2018 – 16:20 – Westhills Stadium, Langford |
| Fiji | 5 | | | | Australia | 0 |
| 13 May 2018 – 10:04 – Westhills Stadium, Langford | 13 May 2018 – 10:04 – Westhills Stadium, Langford | | | | | Australia | 0 |
| 13 May 2018 – 10:04 – Westhills Stadium, Langford | 13 May 2018 – 10:04 – Westhills Stadium, Langford | | | | New Zealand | 46 |
| United States | 28 | | | | New Zealand | 46 |
| United States | 28 | 13 May 2018 – 13:32 – Westhills Stadium, Langford | 13 May 2018 – 13:32 – Westhills Stadium, Langford | | | |
| Canada | 26 | 13 May 2018 – 13:32 – Westhills Stadium, Langford | 13 May 2018 – 13:32 – Westhills Stadium, Langford | | | |
| Canada | 26 | United States | 10 | | | |
| 13 May 2018 – 10:26 – Westhills Stadium, Langford | 13 May 2018 – 10:26 – Westhills Stadium, Langford | | United States | 10 | | | |
| 13 May 2018 – 10:26 – Westhills Stadium, Langford | 13 May 2018 – 10:26 – Westhills Stadium, Langford | New Zealand | 33 | | Third place | Third place |
| New Zealand | 17 | New Zealand | 33 | | Third place | Third place |
| New Zealand | 17 | | | | 13 May 2018 – 15:54 – Westhills Stadium, Langford | 13 May 2018 – 15:54 – Westhills Stadium, Langford |
| England | 12 | | | | 13 May 2018 – 15:54 – Westhills Stadium, Langford | 13 May 2018 – 15:54 – Westhills Stadium, Langford |
| England | 12 | | | | France | 5 |
| | | | | | United States | 21 |

Matches :

## Tournament placings

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

Source: World Rugby

## Players

### Scoring leaders

Source: World Rugby

### Dream Team

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

| Forwards | Backs |
| - | - |
| Stacey Flood Evania Pelite Portia Woodman | Charity Williams Luisa Tisolo Michaela Blyde Montserrat Amedee |
