The 2022 South Africa Sevens was the third tournament within the 2022–23 World Rugby Sevens Series and the 22nd South Africa Sevens tournament. The event was won by , defeating by 12–7 in the final. It was held on 9–11 December 2022 at the DHL Stadium in Cape Town, South Africa.
Format The 16 teams were drawn into four pools of four. Each team plays every other team in their pool once. The top two teams from each pool advance to the Cup playoffs and compete for gold, silver and bronze medals. The other teams from each pool go to the classification playoffs for 9th to 16th placings.
Teams Fifteen core teams participated in the tournament along with one invited team, Uganda.
Core Teams
Invited Team
Pool stage All times in South African Standard Time (UTC+2:00)
Key to colours in group tablesTeams that advanced to the Cup quarter-final
Pool A TeamPldWDLPDPts330039932014273102-4553003-363
Pool B TeamPldWDLPDPts3201497320120732011873003-873
Pool C
Pool C saw a huge upset with defending champions New Zealand defeated 14-10 by Spain. TeamPldWDLPDPts320128732013473111-2263012-404
Pool D TeamPldWDLPDPts321064832014731112963003-973
Placement matches
13th to 16th place playoffs
9th to 12 place playoffs
Knockout stage
Fifth place
Cup playoffs
Tournament placings
PlaceTeam Points 22 19 17 4 15 5 13 6 12 7 10 10
PlaceTeam Points 9 810 7 11 5 513 414 3 15 1 1
Source: World Rugby
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