Canada national rugby sevens team explained

Country:Canada
Union:Rugby Canada
Emblem:The Maple Leaf
Coach:Sean White
Caps:Nathan Hirayama (363)
Top Scorer:Nathan Hirayama (1,859)
Most Tries:Nathan Hirayama (147)
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Sevens:yes
World Cup Apps:8
Year:1993
Best:5th place, 2001

The Canada men’s national rugby sevens team competes at several international tournaments — the World Rugby Sevens Series, Rugby World Cup Sevens, Pan American Games and the Commonwealth Games.

History

See main article: Rugby union in Canada.

Honours

Players

Current squad

The following players have been selected to represent Canada during the 2023–24 SVNS tournament beginning in December 2023.

Note: Caps reflect the total number of SVNS events competed in as of the 2023 Dubai Sevens.

World Rugby Sevens Series

See main article: World Rugby Sevens Series. The principal competition in which the Canada national rugby sevens team regularly competes is the World Rugby Sevens Series. Canada is one of the core teams that plays in every Series tournament.

Results by season

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Cup
width=60px 2nd
Silver
3rd
Bronze
5th
Plate
9th
Bowl
1999–006th6010/100-Wellington00
2000–018th269/900-0Shanghai
2001–0212th810/1100-00
2002–0312th67/700-Hong KongWellington
2003–049th228/800-0Dubai
Hong Kong
2004–0512th27/700-0USA
2005–0612th48/800-00
2006–0713th88/800-00
2007–0816th28/800-00
2008–0915th35/800-00
2009–1011th155/800-0Hong Kong
London
2010–1115th55/800-0Hong Kong
2011–1213th335/90000USA
2012–1312th699/9000USAWellington
2013–146th909/90ScotlandUSA0London
2014–159th679/90000South Africa
2015–1613th4010/100000Sydney
Canada
2016–178th9810/10Singapore0London00
2017–189th7610/1000000
2018–1911th5910/100000Paris
2019–208th676/10[1] 00CanadaHamilton0
20214th242/200000
2021-2214th34 Ranking
36 Total
9/900000
2022-2314th39 11/1100000
2023-2412th148/800000

Third place games/Bronze finals were introduced in the 2011-12 season. Starting in the 2016-17 season, Silver and Bronze medals were introduced, 5th place replaced the Plate, the Challenge Trophy replace the Bowl, and the 13th place replaced the Shield.
Due to the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, World Rugby revised the method used for the series standings in the interest of fairness to teams not able to participate in all rounds of the 2021–22 season.[2] This system excluded the two lowest-scored rounds from each team in the final standings. So, with nine tournaments in the series, only the best seven tournament results for each team contributed to the ranking points.[2]

Totals

Last updated: 22 June 2024.

Major quadrennial tournaments

Canada competes to participate in two major global quadrennial tournaments — the Summer Olympics and the Rugby World Cup Sevens.

Summer Olympics

Olympic Games record
YearRoundQualifying
Did not qualifyLost in QF of the Final Qualification Tournament
Quarterfinals8th6150Won 40–5 vs Jamaica at the 2019 RAN Sevens
2024Did not qualifyLost in SF of the Final Qualification Tournament
Total 0 Titles 1/3 6 1 5 0

Rugby World Cup Sevens

World Cup record
YearRoundPosition
1993Bowl Semifinals=15th6240
1997Bowl Quarterfinals=21st5050
2001Quarterfinals=5th6330
2005Group Stage=18th8350
2009Plate Quarterfinals=13th4220
2013Plate Champions9th6510
2018Challenge Trophy12th5230
2022Challenge Trophy13th5320
Total0 Titles8/84520250

Other tournaments

Commonwealth Games

Commonwealth Games record
YearRoundPosition
1998Quarterfinals5th5311
2002Plate semifinals7th5230
2006Quarterfinals5th4220
2010Bowl finals10th6330
2014Bowl champions9th6420
2018Pool round=9th3120
2022Quarterfinals=7th5230
Total0 Titles7/73417161

Pan American Games

Pan Am Games record
YearRoundPosition
2011Finals6600
2015Finals6510
2019Finals5320
2023Finals5320
Total2 Titles4/4221750

World Games

World Games record
YearRoundPosition
2001Quarter-finals6th6150
2005did not participate
2009did not participate
2013Semi-finals6420
Total0 Titles2/412570

Player records

The following shows the Canadian statistical leaders based on World Series play.

Most matches
RankPlayerMatches
1 363
2 327
3 318
4 269
269
6 Phil Berna 242
7 239
8 214
9 209
10 202
Most points
RankPlayerPoints
1 1,859
2 973
3 782
4 725
5 622
6 580
7 553
8 480
9 392
10 Shane Thompson 375
Most tries
RankPlayerTries
1 147
2 144
3 126
4 124
5 116
6 107
7 95
8 Shane Thompson 75
9 63
Most conversions
RankPlayer
1 559
2 246
3 135
4 105
Cooper Coats
6 76
7 56
8 42
9 37
Pat Kay

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: World Rugby update on COVID-19 response measures and statement from Sir Bill Beaumont . www.world.rugby/ . World Rugby . 21 February 2021 . 22 October 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20211022153728/https://www.world.rugby/u20/news/568360 . dead .
  2. Web site: Everything you need to know about the HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series 2022 . World Rugby . https://web.archive.org/web/20211201190328/https://www.world.rugby/news/667275/hsbc-world-rugby-sevens-series-2022-explained . 1 December 2021 . 1 December 2021.