France Sevens

France hosted its first International Sevens tournament at Melun, in the outskirts of Paris, in May 1995.

The 16 team tournament, culminated in a repeat of the pool game between England and France.

Winners of the previous day’s clash, a very strong England side captained by Rob Kitchen, took the lead with two tries by player of the tournament Gerry Ainscough, both of which he converted.

Captained by Alain Penaud and including a number of other players with full caps, France recovered and snatched a 21 - 14 victory in the dying minutes of a very high quality game.

From 1996 to 1999 the tournament was known as the Air France Sevens, and in the year 2000 it was part of the inaugural IRB Sevens World Series.

The IRB hosted the tournament at Bordeaux in 2004, before returning to Paris for 2005 and 2006. The event was effectively replaced in the World Sevens Series by the Scotland Sevens at Edinburgh for the 2006-07 season.

Between 2011 and 2015, Lyon hosted a leg of the European circuit, the Sevens Grand Prix Series.

The Sevens World Series returned to France for the 2015-16 season, with the revival of the Paris Sevens tournament in 2016.

Invitational tournament

More information Year, Venue ...

Year	Venue	Cup final			Placings			Refs
		Winner	Score	Runner-up	Plate	Bowl	Shield
1996	Sébastien Charléty Paris	Fiji	38–19	France	Romania	Russia	n/a	[1][2]
1997	Sébastien Charléty Paris	Fiji	13–7	New Zealand	French Barbarians	Germany	n/a	[3][4] [5][2]
1998	Sébastien Charléty Paris	Australia	33–26	New Zealand	South American Barbarians	Japan	n/a	[2][6]
1999	Sébastien Charléty Paris	New Zealand	36–26	France	French Barbarians	Australia	n/a	[7]

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World Rugby Sevens Series

More information Year, Venue ...

Year	Venue	Cup final			Placings			Refs
		Winner	Score	Runner-up	Plate	Bowl	Shield
2000	Sébastien Charléty Paris	New Zealand	69–10	South Africa	Fiji	Samoa	n/a	[8]
	No tournament in the World Series for men's teams played in France from 2001 to 2003
2004	Chaban-Delmas Bordeaux	New Zealand	28–19	England	Argentina	France	Spain	[9]
2005	Stade Jean-Bouin Paris	France	28–19	Fiji	South Africa	Argentina	Canada	[10]
2006	Sébastien Charléty Paris	South Africa	33–12	Samoa	Fiji	Kenya	Scotland	[11]
	No tournament in the World Series for men's teams played in France from 2007 to 2015
2016	Stade Jean-Bouin Paris	Samoa	29–26	Fiji	South Africa	Scotland	Portugal	[12]
		Winner	Score	Runner-up	Third	Fourth	Fifth
2017	Stade Jean-Bouin Paris	South Africa	15–5	Scotland	New Zealand	England	United States	[13]
2018	Stade Jean-Bouin Paris	South Africa	24–14	England	New Zealand	Canada	Fiji	[14]
2019	Stade Jean-Bouin Paris	Fiji	35–24	New Zealand	South Africa	United States	France	[15]
World Series tournaments planned for Paris were cancelled in 2020 [16] and 2021,[17] due to impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.
2022	Stade Ernest-Wallon Toulouse	Fiji	29–17	Ireland	France	Samoa	Argentina	[18]
2023	Stade Ernest-Wallon, Toulouse	New Zealand	24–19	Argentina	France	Canada	Australia

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In most years since 2011, France has hosted a leg of the Sevens Grand Prix Series, a multi-leg competition sponsored by Rugby Europe every summer involving teams from Europe.

• France Women's Sevens