2016 South Africa Sevens

2016 South Africa Sevens
Sevens World Series XVIII
Host nation	South Africa
Date	10–11 December 2016
Cup
Champions	England
Runners-up	South Africa
Third	New Zealand
Plate
Champions	Fiji
Runners-up	Kenya
Bowl
Champions	France
Runners-up	Argentina
Shield
Champions	Canada
Runners-up	Uganda
Tournament details
Matches played	24
Tries scored	151 (average 6.292 per match)
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The 2016 South Africa Sevens was the second tournament within the 2016–17 World Rugby Sevens Series and the eighteenth edition of the South Africa Sevens. It was held over the weekend of 10–11 December 2016 at Cape Town Stadium in Cape Town, South Africa.

The teams were drawn into four pools of four teams each, with each team playing every other team in their pool once. The top two teams from each pool advanced to the Cup/5th place brackets. The bottom two teams from each group went to the Challenge trophy/13th place brackets.

Fifteen core teams are participating in the tournament along with one invited team, the winner of the 2016 Rugby Africa Men's Sevens Championships, Uganda:

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