The swimming pools have been confirmed forward of the opening spherical of the World Rugby HSBC Sevens Challenger 2024 at The Sevens Stadium in Dubai on 12-14 January.
The Dubai pool draw follows the current announcement of the competitors schedule which sees three rounds happening over three continents between January and Might.
The Challenger competitors gives a transparent promotion pathway to succeed in the head HSBC SVNS in 2025, with the highest 4 positioned males’s and girls’s groups from the 2024 Challenger, based mostly on cumulative collection factors on the conclusion of the third spherical, securing their alternative to compete within the new excessive stakes relegation play-off competitors on the SVNS Grand Closing in Madrid on 31 Might-2 June, 2024 towards the groups ranked ninth to twelfth from HSBC SVNS 2024.
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4 profitable nations from this Grand Closing play-off will safe their place in HSBC SVNS 2025, whereas the opposite 4 groups will compete of their regional qualification tournaments to earn the precise to compete within the World Rugby HSBC Sevens Challenger 2025.
The pool draw, which befell in the course of the HSBC SVNS 2024 opening spherical in Dubai final weekend, produced some thrilling match-ups.
Three groups within the males’s competitors – Uruguay, Japan and Kenya – have already booked their locations on the Olympic Video games Paris 2024 they usually headline Swimming pools A, B and C respectively. All groups certified for the Challenger 2024 by means of regional competitions.
The Challenger tournaments replicate the Olympic Video games competitors format, with the 12 groups drawn into three swimming pools of 4 groups every. The highest two from every pool in addition to the 2 finest third-placed finishers will qualify for the knockout levels with quarter-finals and semi-finals resulting in the third place and gold medal matches.
The Sevens Challenger was launched in February 2020 to spice up the event of rugby sevens throughout the globe and supply a transparent promotion pathway to succeed in the highest stage of worldwide rugby sevens for the quick format of the sport which has skilled enormous progress over the previous 20 years for the reason that introduction of the worldwide sevens collection and changing into an Olympic sport on the Rio 2016 Video games.
The 2024 version of the Challenger competitors kicks off with mixed occasions at The Sevens Stadium in Dubai on 12-14 January, adopted by Estadio Charrúa in Montevideo, Uruguay on 8-10 March earlier than standalone ladies’s and males’s occasions at Henryk Reyman’s Municipal Stadium in Krakow, Poland and Dantestadion in Munich, Germany respectively on 18-19 Might
Males’s swimming pools:
Pool A: Uruguay, Hong Kong China, Papua New Guinea, Georgia
Pool B: Japan, Tonga, Chile, Portugal
Pool C: Kenya, Germany, Uganda, Mexico
