The Qualifiers will be hosted in Bucharest this weekend.
The qualifying tournaments (mens & womens) will take place at the Arc of Triumf Stadium in Bucharest over the weekend of July 16-17 2022.
The show-piece tournament will consist of 12 teams in each of the events battling it out for the chance to qualify for the Sevens World Cup in Cape Town, South Africa in September 2022.
The top four finishers in each competition will qualify for the Sevens World Cup. Both mens and womens events will take place at the same stadium in a combined event.
The 7’s Qualifiers will be run on SportLoMo Tournament
Both the womens and mens competitions are set up as competitions through our Tournament module. This allows Rugby Europe to create a competition with pool phases and automatic placings of teams into knockout phases.
The SportLoMo system will manage all fixtures, results, and the transition from pool phase to knockout on the platform. Realtime data from the system will be published to Rugby Europe and its member nation’s media.
France (Men and Women), Scotland (Men) and England (Men) are already qualified from the previous RWC7s back in 2018 rankings.
This tournament will include the teams involved in Rugby Europe 7s Championship Series 2021 and a number of teams from the Rugby Europe Trophies Series 2022, the list of participants are as follows:
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Men |
Women |
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Spain |
Poland |
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Germany |
Spain |
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Lithuania |
Belgium |
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Georgia |
Wales |
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Portugal |
Germany |
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Italy |
Romania |
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Poland |
England |
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Czech Republic |
Italy |
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Belgium |
Ireland |
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Ireland |
Czech Republic |
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Wales |
Next best ranked Trophy team from ‘22 |
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Next best ranked Trophy team from ‘22 |
Next best ranked Trophy team from ‘22 |
Romanian rugby’s Stadionul Arcul de Triumf has undergone major redevelopment work.
The €36million project has transformed the stadium in Bucharest – home to rugby in Romania since 1913.
Capacity has been raised to 8,270 seats and housed within the sports complex is a 90-room hotel, a medical clinic, a semi-Olympic-sized swimming pool, a museum of rugby, a sports bar and restaurant, and underground parking for 200 vehicles.
Alin Petrache, the Federaia Romana de Rugby (FRR) president “It’s not so big, but it is wonderfully compact and very chic. It has everything you need and is very close to the city centre.”
Best of luck to all our Rugby Member Nations and to the Ireland Mens and Woman’s 7s.
https://www.rugbyeurope.eu/news
https://www.irishrugby.ie/2022/06/07/european-qualifiers-for-rwc-sevens-to-be-held-in-bucharest/