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Rugby World Cup Sevens San Francisco 2018 - Day Two
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Rugby World Cup Sevens 2022

Everything you need to know about Rugby World Cup Sevens 2022

Your guide to RWC Sevens 2022, which will take place in Cape Town between 9-11 September this year.

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Mon 25 July, 2022
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Rugby World Cup Sevens 2022 match schedule revealed with 50 days to go

The first match-ups for the highly anticipated Rugby World Cup Sevens 2022 have been revealed with 50 days to go until the three-day pinnacle event kicks off in Cape Town, South Africa on 9-11 September. The innovative ‘winner takes all’ knock-out competition format first introduced at Rugby World Cup Sevens 2018 means every match counts as teams will need to win every time they enter the pitch in order to become world champions.

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Thu 21 July, 2022
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Wed 20 July, 2022
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Mon 18 July, 2022
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South Africa’s biggest premium lite beer, Castle Lite has joined Rugby World Cup Sevens 2022 as an Official Global Partner.

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Fri 15 July, 2022
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2018 Highlights
Rugby World Cup Sevens 2018
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Highlights: New Zealand win big in San Francisco

New Zealand retained their Rugby World Cup Sevens title in San Francisco
Mon 23 July, 2018
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Highlights: New Zealand women's win Rugby World Cup Sevens

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Sat 21 July, 2018
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Friday 27 August, 2021
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Barbarian Women are back and Fiona Coghlan and Rocky Clark are thrilled

Women’s rugby legends react to the news that the Barbarian Women will take on South Africa in an historic Killick Cup double header at Twickenham on Saturday 27 November.
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Two legends of the women’s game – Fiona Coghlan and Rocky Clark – have welcomed the news that the Barbarian Women are set to return to action at Twickenham Stadium later this year.

It will be almost two years to the day since they were beaten in their last outing, 29-15 by Wales in Cardiff, when they play South Africa at the end of November.

Barbarian Women have played five matches in total since first taking to the field against Munster at Thomond Park in November 2017.

Former Ireland Grand Slam-winning captain Coghlan led the team to a 19-0 victory on that rainy night in Limerick and remembers it like it was yesterday.

“The conditions were miserable and the first try was so un-Barbarian; it was a penalty try off a scrum. But in fairness, the last try, the third try, was actually typical Barbarian-style, we ran in from our own 22 and there was interplay between a lot of the backs for Georgia Roberts to score the try,” she recalled.

Coghlan's only previous Barbarians experience in person was as a spectator in Clontarf, when the men’s team played her local club in 2015.

To be selected and play for the world’s most famous invitational team, she says, was really special.

“It came out of the blue. I retired in 2014, so I never envisaged I would be playing for a Barbarians team.

“When I got the email from Stockers I was blown away. I think kudos has to go to (team manager) Fiona Stockley for the amount of work she did behind the scenes to actually see that come to fruition. It was just brilliant.

“To come together as a squad – I think there were eight different countries in that first one – and play with players you’d always plotted against, and admired, was unbelievable.

“The buzz that the whole Barbarians ethos brings is just what rugby should be about – enjoying the game.”

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The match at Twickenham Stadium will take place following the men’s fixture against Samoa.

It is the first time the Barbarians have hosted a men’s and women’s match on the same day.

“It is brilliant to see it’s part of a double-header at Twickenham. With the game being played at one of the world’s best grounds, and hopefully in front of a big crowd, brings an added status to it as well,” added Coghlan

“It is great for the Barbarians but it is huge for South African women’s rugby as well, with where they are in their development.”

Icing on the cake 

Like Coghlan, former England international Clark has nothing but fond memories from her time in the famous black and white hoops.

The most-capped player in women’s rugby packed down in the Barbarian Women’s most entertaining match to date – a 34-33 win against the USA in Denver in April 2019.

Nine months earlier, Clark had announced her retirement from international rugby, calling time on a career that brought her a Rugby World Cup winner’s medal in 2014, seven Women’s Six Nations Grand Slams and 137 caps.

But there was still one last hurrah to come for the loose-head, and Clark relished the chance to pack down with old Black Ferns adversaries, Fiao’o Fa’amausili and Stephanie Te Ohaere-Fox.

“It was just like the icing on the cake. I had done so much in my career and to get that honour of representing the Barbarians was just huge. I was so proud,” she said.

“It was amazing to share the same pitch as a lot of my previous rivals and make friends for life.

“To pack down with Fi and Steph was brilliant; I’d had so many battles against them so to then battle with them was awesome.

“The times we had were so much fun.”

Jasmine Joyce scored the first try against the Women’s Eagles after just 41 seconds and added three more in a brilliant advertisement for the women’s game.

For Clark, the Barbarians experience reminded her why she took up the game in the first place.

“It was an exciting game to be involved in, and exactly what you want,” she said.

“Basically what the Barbarians is about – the camaraderie, the fun, the enjoyment – is why you start out in rugby.”

Clark says she “was absolutely buzzing” to hear news of the Barbarian Women’s return, and in such a high-profile slot in the rugby calendar.

“It’s brilliant to get the next fixture in – I was absolutely buzzing when I heard – and it’s at the home of England Rugby, which is always exciting.”

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Records fall on first day of rugby sevens at Commonwealth Games

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The highly anticipated Commonwealth Games 2022 rugby sevens competition will kick off on the opening morning of the Games with teams taking to the pitch at Coventry Stadium in England at 09:30 BST on Friday 29 July. A very strong line-up involving the top teams and best men’s and women’s players in the world are ready to showcase the speed, skill and end-to-end drama of rugby sevens to a huge global audience in what promises to be an exhilarating three days of competition, culminating in the medal matches on Sunday 31 July.

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Thu 28 July, 2022
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