Spanish sevens national rugby team

Spain
Nickname (s)	España Seven
Association	Federación Española de Rugby
Trainer	Jose Ignacio "Tiki" Inchausti
captain	Pablo Feijoo
home	Away
	World Championship; participations: 4 ; Best result: 6th place 1993

The Spanish national rugby team of seven represents Spain in the sport of rugby sevens (Spanish: rugby a siete or seven ), a variant of rugby union . The selection is subject to the Federación Española de Rugby (FER).

history

The Spanish national team can look back on better results in rugby 7 than in rugby 15 . So far you could qualify four times for the Seventh Rugby World Cup organized by World Rugby ; 1993 , 1997 , 2001 and 2013 . The best result was achieved in 1993 when the selection finished the tournament in sixth place overall.

The Spanish national team occasionally took part in the European tournaments of the World Rugby Sevens Series . In the 2007/08 season, the Spaniards were able to win the Shield competition in the London Sevens after beating Russia in the semi-finals and Kenya in the final . In Edinburgh Sevens the Spaniards in the group stage sat surprisingly against Canada by and defeated in the quarter-final of the Bowl and Moldova . Only in the semifinals did the Spaniards fail at the eventual bowl winner Australia. A great success in the IRB Sevens World Series was achieved in March 2012 when the Iberians finished the qualifying tournament held as part of the Hong Kong Sevens for the following season behind Canada in second place and thus belonged to the fifteen core teams in the 2012/13 season , which deny all nine tournaments of the series. In the last competition of the 2011/12 season, the London Sevens, the Spaniards reached the quarter-finals of the Cup for the first time in history after victories in the group matches against Wales and Zimbabwe .

In the 2012/13 season of the World Series, Spain finished 15th. So they had to take part in the qualifying tournament at the London Sevens 2013 in order to remain core team . This succeeded with the semi-final victory against Portugal. Also in 2013/14 the Spaniards reached 15th place, but due to the new relegation regulation they had to relegate directly. It was not until 2017 that the qualification as a core team succeeded again with the final victory of the qualifying tournament at the Hong Kong Sevens against Germany . In the following season the Spaniards achieved their best result so far with 11th place.

At the Sevens Rugby European Championships organized by FIRA-AER in 2009 in Hanover , the Spaniards came fourth behind Russia, France and Italy. A year later, the placement could be repeated in Moscow , this time the Iberians ended up behind Portugal, France and hosts Russia. In the 2011 season, the European Championship was held for the first time as a series of four tournaments. The Spaniards achieved two second and one third place and finished the European Championship just behind Portugal and England in third place.

Spain versus Uganda (2017).

Results

Olympic games

year	place	result
2016	Rio de Janeiro	10.

World Championship

year	place	result
1993	Edinburgh	06. (Plate Finale)
1997	Hong Kong	13. (Plate quarterfinals)
2001	Mar del Plata	11. (Plate semi-finals)
2005	Hong Kong	not qualified
2009	Dubai	not qualified
2013	Moscow	22. (Bowl quarterfinals)
2018	San Francisco	not qualified

Sevens World Series

season	Points	result
1999/2000	2	16.
2000/2001	0	19th
2001/2002	0	16.
2002/2003	0	20th
2003/2004	0	15th
2004-2007	not participated
2007/2008	0	18th
2008/2009	0	17th
2009/2010	not participated
2010/2011	0	16.
2011/2012	19th	14th
2012/2013	26th	15th
2013/2014	20th	15th
2014/2015	not participated
2015/2016	not participated
2016/2017	2	19th
2017/2018	56	11.
2018/2019	49	12.

European Championship

year	place	result
2002	Heidelberg	not participated
2003	Heidelberg	7th
2004	Palma	8th.
2005	Moscow	5.
2006	Moscow	8th.
2007	Moscow	4th
2008	Hanover	6th
2009	Hanover	4th
2010	Moscow	4th
2011	Lyon , Moscow, Barcelona , Bucharest	3.
2012	Lyon, Moscow, Odense	4th
2013	Lyon, Bucharest	11.
2014	Lyon, Moscow, Manchester , Bucharest	5.
2015	Moscow, Lyon, Exeter	2.
2016	Moscow, Exeter, Gdynia	3.
2017	Moscow, Clermont-Ferrand , Łódź , Exeter	3.
2017	Moscow, Marcoussis , Łódź, Exeter	9.

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ Canada, Spain and Portugal join the World Series. In: International Rugby Board . March 25, 2012, accessed March 25, 2012 .

[1] Canada, Spain and Portugal join the World Series. In: International Rugby Board . March 25, 2012, accessed March 25, 2012 .