Papua New Guinea women's national rugby sevens team

The Papua New Guinea women's national rugby sevens team represents Papua New Guinea in international rugby sevens tournaments, particularly the Oceania Women's Sevens Championship and Pacific Games. PNG's first international was in 2007 while hosting the first ever Pacific women's sevens championship (now known as Oceania Women's Sevens Championship) in Port Moresby. In 2017, the team participated for the first time in the World Rugby Women's Sevens Series as an invited team at the 2017 Sydney Women's Sevens. Papua New Guinea made its debut at the Women's Sevens World Cup in 2018.

Papua New Guinea

Union	Papua New Guinea Rugby Football Union
Nickname(s)	Palais
Founded	2007
Coach(es)	Paul Tietjens
Captain(s)	Joanne Lagona
Team kit
First international
Papua New Guinea  17 – 17  Samoa (2007 Pacific Women's Sevens Championship, 1 December 2007)
Largest win
Papua New Guinea  77 – 0  Tahiti (2017 Oceania Women's Sevens Championship, 10 November 2017)
World Cup Sevens
Appearances	1 (First in 2018)

Papua New Guinea women's national rugby sevens team

Medal record
Pacific Games
	2011 Nouméa	Team
	2015 Port Moresby	Team
	2019 Apia	Team

Tournament History

A red box around the year indicates tournaments played within Papua New Guinea

World Cup Sevens results

Rugby World Cup Sevens
Year	Round	Position	Pld	W	L	D
2009	Did not enter
2013	Did not qualify
2018	Challenge trophy QF	15th	4	1	3	0
Total	0 Titles	1/3	4	1	3	0

Olympic Games results

Olympic Games
Year	Round	Position	Pld	W	L	D
2016	Did not qualify
Total	0 Titles	0/1	0	0	0	0

Commonwealth Games results

Commonwealth Games
Year	Round	Position	Pld	W	L	D
2018	Did not qualify
Total	0 Titles	0/0	0	0	0	0

Pacific Games results

Pacific Games
Year	Round	Position	Pld	W	L	D
2011	Bronze final		7	4	3	0
2015	Bronze final		7	5	2	0
2019	Bronze final		6	4	2	0
Total	0 Titles	3/3	20	13	7	0

Oceania Women's Sevens results

Oceania Women's Sevens
Year	Round	Position	Pld	W	L	D	Refs
Pacific 7s
2007	Bronze final		4	2	0	1	[1]
Oceania 7s
2008	Did not attend						[2]
2012	3rd Place	4	6	3	3	0	[3]
2013	Pool stage	5	4	0	3	1	[4]
2014	Pool stage	5	6	3	3	0	[5]
2015	Bronze final	4	6	1	5	0		[6]
2016	Round-robin		6	4	2	0	[7]
2017	Bronze final	4	5	1	3	1
Total	0 Titles	7/8	37	14	19	3

Team

Current squad

TBC

Previous squads

2015 Pacific Games squad[8][9]
Cassandra Samson Alice Alois Amelia Kuk Lynette Kwarula Trisilla Rema Dulcie Bomai Menda Ipat Freda Waula Kymlie Rapilla Naomi Alapi Geua Larry Joanne Lagona

See also

• Papua New Guinea women's national rugby union team

References

1. "Fijiana take Pacific women's Sevens". IRB. 2007. Archived from the original on 4 April 2008. Retrieved 2 January 2016.
2. "Oceania Sevens women's final". Oceania Rugby. 2008. Archived from the original on 27 February 2015.
3. "New Zealand claim Oceania Women's Sevens Championship". Oceania Rugby. 2012. Archived from the original on 9 December 2013.
4. "Women's Sevens Statistics - Day 2" (PDF). Oceania Rugby. 2013. Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 October 2013.
5. "Fiji and New Zealand win the Oceania Sevens". IRB. 2014. Archived from the original on October 6, 2014.CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
6. "Australia and Fijiana Win Places at 2016 Olympic Games Sevens". Oceania Rugby. 2015. Archived from the original on 15 November 2015.
7. "Australian women win Oceania rugby sevens". Special Broadcasting Service. 12 November 2016. Archived from the original on 9 March 2017.
8. "Rugby Union 7s Female: Game2 Result" (PDF). pg2015.gems.pro. 2015 Pacific Games. 8 July 2015. Retrieved 10 July 2015.
9. "Rugby Union 7s Female: Papua New Guinea". pg2015.gems.pro. 2015 Pacific Games. Retrieved 2016-07-19.