Rugby Sevens show in ‘seven’ iconic venues

Article posted by Coliseum, November 22^nd, 2024

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The World Rugby has announced Los Angeles as the venue for the 2024-2025 SVNS Grand Final.

‘RUGBY.COM.AU’ stated that Singapore and Los Angeles will play host to the circuit in April and May with the winner-takes-all Championship heading to North America for the first time on May 3^rd-4^th at the Dignity Health Sports Park in Carson, California (US) the likely site for the 2028 Olympics.

Dublin (Ireland)-based the World Rugby is the governing body for the sport of rugby union. The World Rugby organizes the Rugby World Cup every four years, the sport’s most recognized and most profitable competition.

The SVNS, known as the HSBC SVNS for sponsorship reasons, is an annual series of international Rugby Sevens tournaments run by the World Rugby featuring national sevens teams. Organized for the first time in the 1999-2000 seasons as the IRB World Sevens Series, the competition was formed to promote an elite-level of international Rugby Sevens and develop the game into a viable commercial product. The competition has been sponsored by the banking group HSBC since 2014.

The 2024-2025 SVNS is the 26th annual series of Rugby Sevens tournaments for the national sevens teams known as the SVNS. It will take place between November 2024 and June 2025. The SVNS has been run by the World Rugby since 1999.

The Rugby Sevens (commonly known as simply Sevens and originally known as seven-a-side rugby) is a variant of rugby union in which the teams are made up of seven players playing seven-minute halves instead of the usual 15 players playing 40-minute halves. The Rugby sevens is administered by the World Rugby, the body responsible for rugby union worldwide.

The 27,000-capacity Dignity Health Sports Park is a multiuse sports complex located on the campus of the California State University, Dominguez Hills in Carson, California (US).

‘RUGBY.COM.AU’ further stated that the series will commence at the end of the month with back-to-back events in Dubai (UAE) and Cape Town (South Africa) before it returns to Australia to start 2025.

Following this, the SVNS circuit returns to Vancouver (Canada) before heading to the home of Sevens Hong Kong in April.

Enthused Alan Gilpin, World Rugby head honcho, “We are delighted to announce the HSBC SVNS 2025 schedule featuring the best 24 men’s and women’s Rugby Sevens teams in the world competing in seven iconic global destinations across seven months. Global enthusiasm for Rugby Sevens is at an all-time high with over 530,000 fans witnessing the electric action on the pitch at the Olympic Games Paris 2024 including a women’s single session record of 66,000 while tens of millions more watched on TV worldwide. Building on the Olympic effect and continuing the theme of innovation we are excited to announce Los Angeles as host of the winner-takes-all HSBC SVNS World Championship 2025 which will take place in the LA 2028 Olympic venue.”

Added Gilpin, “We are fully committed to the sustainable growth, innovation and success of Rugby Sevens as a highly impactful and successful Olympic sport. Rugby sevens is an integral part of World Rugby’s global growth strategy and plays a vital role in engaging new participants and fans, particularly in the emerging rugby nations and within the youth and female demographics.”

The 2024 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad and branded as Paris 2024, was an international multisport event held from July 26^th-August 11^th, 2024 in France with several events having started from July 24^th.

The 2028 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXXIV Olympiad and commonly known as Los Angeles 2028 or LA28, is an upcoming international multisport event scheduled to take place from July 14^th-30^th, 2028, in the United States. Los Angeles will be the Host City with various events also scheduled to be held at the other Cities spread across the Greater Los Angeles area plus two subsites in Oklahoma City. Due to rule changes on hosting made in 2019 these would be the final Olympic Games to be hosted in one City.

The Australian sides have been drawn in Pool A for Dubai kicking off on November 30^th.

The women’s side have drawn China, Fiji (country in Oceania) and Ireland with new Coach Liam Barry facing Olympic gold medalists France, South Africa and Kenya in his first tournament in charge.

HSBC SVNS 2024/2025 Schedule:

Dubai, UAE – November 30^th-December 1^st, 2024 (the 44,000-capacity The Sevens Stadium);
Cape Town, South Africa – December 7^th-8^th, 2024 (the 55,000-capacity DHL Stadium);
Perth, Australia – January 24^th-26^th, 2025 (the 20,500-capacityHBF Park);
Vancouver, Canada – February 21^st-23^rd, 2025 (the 54,500-capacity BC Place);
Hong Kong – March 28^th-30^th, 2025 (the 50,000-capacity Kai Tak Stadium);
Singapore – April 5^th-6^th, 2025 (the 55,000-capacity National Stadium); and
Los Angeles (US) – May 3^rd-4^th, 2025 (Dignity Health Sports Park).

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