2017–18 World Rugby Sevens Series

The 2017–18 World Rugby Sevens Series, known for sponsorship reasons as the HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series, was the 19th annual series of rugby sevens tournaments for national men's rugby sevens teams. The Sevens Series has been run by World Rugby since 1999–2000.

Tour venues

The official schedule for the 2017–18 World Rugby Sevens Series was as follows:

Leg	Stadium	City	Dates	Winner
Dubai	The Sevens	Dubai	1–2 December 2017
South Africa	Cape Town Stadium	Cape Town	9–10 December 2017
Australia	Allianz Stadium	Sydney	26–28 January 2018
[2018 2018 New Zealand Sevens\|New Zealand Sevens\|New Zealand]	FMG Stadium Waikato	Hamilton	3–4 February 2018
United States	Sam Boyd Stadium	Las Vegas	2–4 March 2018
Canada	BC Place	Vancouver	10–11 March 2018
Hong Kong	Hong Kong Stadium	Hong Kong	6–8 April 2018
Singapore	National Stadium	Singapore	28–29 April 2018
England	Twickenham Stadium	London	2–3 June 2018
France	Stade Jean-Bouin	Paris	8–10 June 2018

There were several significant changes to the schedule:

The New Zealand event moved from Wellington, which had hosted an event in every previous season of the series, to Hamilton.
The Australia and New Zealand events will swap places in the tournament order.
The schedule includes a break for the 2018 Commonwealth Games, which will hold its sevens tournament on 14–15 April at Gold Coast.
The Paris and London Sevens, which swapped places in the season order, will take place several weeks later than usual in order to provide more rest for players, many of whom will have been involved in the Commonwealth Games.

Standings

The final standings after completion of the ten tournaments of the series are shown in the table below.
The points awarded to teams at each tournament, as well as the overall season totals, are shown. Gold indicates the event champions. Silver indicates the event runner-ups. Bronze indicates the event third place finishers. A dash is recorded in the event column if a team did not compete at a tournament.
Official standings for the 2017–18 series:

Pos.

United Arab Emirates

Placings summary

Tallies of top four tournament placings during the 2017–18 series, by team:

Team	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Fourth	Total
	5	–	1	1	7
	2	3	3	2	10
	1	1	1	2	5
	1	1	1	–	3
	1	–	–	2	3
	–	2	1	–	3
	–	2	–	–	2
	–	1	2	1	4
	–	–	1	–	1
	–	–	–	2	2
Totals	10	10	10	10

Players

Scoring leaders

No.

Player

Tries

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Awards

Tour Leg

Player

Points

Dubai

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Tournaments

Dubai

Event	Winners	Score	Finalists	Semi-finalists
Cup	'	24–12
5th Place	'	22–17
Challenge Trophy	'	21–12
13th Place	'	26–7

Cape Town

Event	Winners	Score	Finalists	Semi-finalists
Cup	'	38–14
5th Place	'	26–12
Challenge Trophy	'	26–7
13th Place	'	24–14

Sydney

Event	Winners	Score	Finalists	Semi-finalists
Cup	'	29–0
5th Place	'	31–7
Challenge Trophy	'	29–12
13th Place	'	14–12

Hamilton

Event	Winners	Score	Finalists	Semi-finalists
Cup	'	24–17
5th Place	'	19–15
Challenge Trophy	'	31–12
13th Place	'	19–17

Las Vegas

Event	Winners	Score	Finalists	Semi-finalists
Cup	'	28–0
5th Place	'	17–12
Challenge Trophy	'	26–19
13th Place	'	28–7

Vancouver

Event	Winners	Score	Finalists	Semi-finalists
Cup	'	31–12
5th Place	'	31–14
Challenge Trophy	'	29–5
13th Place	'	21–10

Hong Kong

Event	Winners	Score	Finalists	Semi-finalists
Cup	'	24–12
5th Place	'	14–12
Challenge Trophy	'	33–7
13th Place	'	33–5
World Series Qualifier		19–14

Singapore

Event	Winners	Score	Finalists	Semi-finalists
Cup	'	28–22
5th Place	'	36–17
Challenge Trophy	'	26–12
13th Place	'	31–24

London

Event	Winners	Score	Finalists	Semi-finalists
Cup	'	21-17
5th Place	'	26-5
Challenge Trophy	'	33-19
13th Place	'	34-10

Paris

Event	Winners	Score	Finalists	Semi-finalists
Cup	'	24–14
5th Place	'	28–7
Challenge Trophy	'	33–26
13th Place	'	21–20