2014 World Club 7s

The 2014 World Club 7s was the second World Club 7s tournament, a rugby sevens competition organised by Premiership Rugby. It was hosted at Twickenham Stadium on 16 and 17 August 2014.[1] The tournament was won by Buenos Aires.[2]

2014 World Club 7s
Host nation England
Date16-17 August 2014
Cup
Champion Buenos Aires
Runner-up Auckland Blues
Third Kuban Krasnodar
Plate
Winner Cardiff Blues
Runner-up Blue Bulls
Shield
Winner Seattle
Runner-up Harlequins
Tournament details
Matches played34
2013
2015

Format

11 teams have been invited, and one has qualified for the competition through the 2014 Premiership Rugby Sevens Series contested by English and Welsh clubs.

The 12 teams are split into 3 pools of 4 teams, and each team will play all the others in their pool once on day one. Matches will be played according to International Rugby Board Laws of the Game - 7s Variations, and based on the result, teams will receive league points.

Following the completion of the pool stage, teams will be seeded based on league points and position in their respective pools. The top two teams from each pool, and the two best third place teams, will contest the cup competition. The remaining four teams will contest the shield competition.

These competitions take place on day two as knock-out competitions, with the winners progressing to the next stage at each round. However, the losers of the cup quarter-finals will instead drop down to contest a plate knock-out competition.

Teams

Team Nation
Auckland  New Zealand
Vodacom Blue Bulls  South Africa
Buenos Aires  Argentina
Cardiff Blues  Wales
DHL Western Province  South Africa
Gloucester Rugby  England
Harlequins  England
Kuban Krasnodar  Russia
New York  USA
Enisei-STM  Russia
Seattle  USA
Waratahs  Australia

Pool Stage

Pool A

Teams Pld W D L PF PA Diff Pts
DHL Western Province 32109969308
RC Enisei 32018364197
New York 3111675986
Harlequins 30033895-573
16 August 2014
11:30
RC Enisei 26 - 17 New York
16 August 2014
11:53
Harlequins 19 - 38 DHL Western Province

16 August 2014
14:15
RC Enisei 33 - 12 Harlequins
16 August 2014
14:38
New York 26 - 26 DHL Western Province

16 August 2014
16:37
RC Enisei 24 - 35 DHL Western Province
16 August 2014
17:00
New York 24 - 7 Harlequins

Pool B

Teams Pld W D L PF PA Diff Pts
Buenos Aires 33009231619
Vodacom Blue Bulls 3201676167
Cardiff Blues 31027662145
Gloucester Rugby 300329110-813
16 August 2014
12:16
Gloucester Rugby 14 - 36 Vodacom Blue Bulls
16 August 2014
12:39
Cardiff Blues 14 - 33 Buenos Aires

16 August 2014
15:05
Gloucester 5 - 41 Cardiff Blues
16 August 2014
15:28
Vodacom Blue Bulls 7 - 26 Buenos Aires

16 August 2014
17:23
Gloucester 10 - 33 Buenos Aires
16 August 2014
17:46
Vodacom Blue Bulls 24 - 21 Cardiff Blues

Pool C

Teams Pld W D L PF PA Diff Pts
Auckland 33007439359
Kuban Krasnodar 32016045157
Seattle 3102505005
NSW Waratahs 30034595-503
16 August 2014
13:02
Kuban Krasnodar 15 - 21 Auckland
16 August 2014
13:25
NSW Waratahs 14 - 33 Seattle

16 August 2014
15:51
Kuban Krasnodar 28 - 19 NSW Waratahs
16 August 2014
16:14
Auckland 19 - 12 Seattle

16 August 2014
18:09
Kuban Krasnodar 17 - 5 Seattle
16 August 2014
18:32
Auckland 34 - 12 NSW Waratahs

Knock-out Competition

Shield (Places 9-12)

Shield Semi-finals

17 August 2014
11:30
NSW Waratahs 19 - 26 Harlequins
(Shield SF 1)
17 August 2014
11:52
Seattle 22 - 12 Gloucester
(Shield SF 2)

Eleventh/Twelfth Place play-off

17 August 2014
13:47
NSW Waratahs 17 - 22 Gloucester

Shield Final

17 August 2014
14:10
Harlequins 14 - 28 Seattle

Cup Quarter-finals

17 August 2014
12:15
Buenos Aires 7 - 5 Cardiff Blues
(QF 1)
17 August 2014
12:38
RC Enisei 12 - 19 Kuban Krasnodar
(QF 2)
17 August 2014
13:01
Auckland 36 - 5 New York
(QF 3)
17 August 2014
13:24
DHL Western Province 22 - 12 Vodacom Blue Bulls
(QF 4)

Plate Competition (Places 5-8)

Plate Semi-finals

17 August 2014
14:56
Cardiff Blues 35 - 5 RC Enisei
(Plate SF 1)
17 August 2014
15:19
New York 14 - 31 Vodacom Blue Bulls
(Plate SF 2)

Seventh/Eighth Place play-off

17 August 2014
16:28
RC Enisei 7 - 34 New York

Plate Final

17 August 2014
16:51
Cardiff Blues 28 - 12 Vodacom Blue Bulls

Cup Competition

Cup Semi-finals

17 August 2014
15:42
Buenos Aires 35 - 12 Kuban Krasnodar
(Cup SF 1)
17 August 2014
16:05
Auckland 19 - 14 DHL Western Province
(Cup SF 2)

Third Place play-off

17 August 2014
17:14
Kuban Krasnodar 22 - 19 DHL Western Province

Cup Final

17 August 2014
17:37
Buenos Aires 26 - 22 Auckland
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References

  1. "WC7s 2014 Draw" (PDF). Premiership Rugby. 2014. Archived from the original (PDF 1.7 MB) on 17 August 2014. Retrieved 18 August 2014.
  2. Bailey, Chris (17 August 2014). "World Club 7s: Perfect Buenos Aires win final". Premiership Rugby. Archived from the original on 17 August 2014. Retrieved 18 August 2014.
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