In Los Angeles, they will face the bottom four ranked teams from the 2024-2025 HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series in a high-stakes promotion and relegation tournament, with four coveted places for the ...

Shaped through stakeholder consultation and evaluation of the sporting landscape, the new structure introduces a devolved, three-division hosting model that expands the series from 10 to 13 events ...

World Rugby has unveiled an evolved competition structure for HSBC SVNS, which has been created to promote long-term financial sustainability and to grow sevens.

In 2019, the HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series saw record-breaking fan engagement figures with a year-on-year increase of 64 per cent across video views to 198 million, and the Series attracted more ...

However, a spokesperson for the sport's governing body says consultation with players and representatives did take place.

World Rugby has been called “shameful, unprofessional and Machiavellian” after the global governing body overhauled the world sevens series before this weekend’s tournament in Los Angeles ...

In fact, not even Kenya Lionesses, the 2025 World Rugby Challenger Series champions ... This means Kenya Sevens and Kenya Lionesses will not feature as one of the core sides of the HSBC SVNS ...

World Rugby’s revamped and rebranded rugby sevens, HSBC SVNS 2025 will ... deliver another high-quality Challenger series and we are very grateful to HSBC for their continued excellent support ...

The deal encompasses the men's World Cup in 2027 and the next two women's World Cups, which will be held this year and 2029.

Last weekend, Madrid was ablaze with sevens fever ... which saw men's and women's teams from the HSBC World Rugby Challenger Series battle it out against sides finishing ninth to 12th in Madrid ...

The New Zealand squad has been named for the World Rugby U20 Championship, and is headlined by a pair of All Blacks Sevens ...