Irish Rugby | World Rugby Announces New HSBC SVNS Format

The Eire males’s and ladies’s sevens groups can be a part of a brand new World Rugby 7s competitors that replaces the World Sequence. HSBC SVNS, World Rugby’s revamped and rebranded international celebration of rugby sevens throughout eight iconic cities has been launched as a rugby occasion, competition and a must-attend expertise set in a few of the world’s most enjoyable areas.

With a daring ambition to supercharge rugby’s international attain and attraction by being extra related and accessible to youthful, leisure-hungry audiences, HSBC SVNS goals to ship the last word in immersive experiences, a novel competition of sport, leisure and tradition set in opposition to beautiful backdrops.

Launching in December 2023, HSBC SVNS festivals will present the annual platform for the world’s greatest sevens athletes to shine with 12 males’s and ladies’s groups sharing a world stage on the similar location.

HBSC SVNS – Pageant dates

Dubai, UAE – 2-3 December, 2023
Cape City, South Africa – 9-10 December, 2023
Perth, Australia – 26-28 January, 2024
Vancouver, Canada – 23-25 February, 2024
Los Angeles, USA – 2-3 March, 2024
Hong Kong SAR, China – 5-7 April 2024
Singapore, Singapore – 3-5 Might 2024
Madrid, Spain – 31 Might-2 June, 2024

All dates and venues appropriate at time of publication and are topic to vary.

For the latest information on tickets, fans should visit the new SVNS.com to find out more.

World Rugby Chief Government Alan Gilpin stated: “We’re excited to be launching HSBC SVNS, the supercharged new id for our Olympic format, with iconic locations and a brand new idea on and off the sphere, broadening the attain and attraction of the game past its conventional audiences.

“Our ambition is for SVNS to be on the forefront of our development technique, interesting to a youthful, leisure-hungry viewers. In eight iconic locations performed over seven months, we’ll deliver collectively a really immersive competition of rugby, music, meals and experiences to create the last word weekend-long get collectively for younger folks, the most popular ticket and open a brand new period for the game.

“For the primary time in rugby sevens historical past, all areas can be unified below the identical strategy, that means that the general expertise is similar and we are able to optimise business income for reinvestment, together with enjoying our half in guaranteeing that sevens is a viable profession path for the gifted gamers and Olympians.

“We’re delighted to be extending our long-standing and impactful title partnership with HSBC. They share our ardour to develop the game in new nations and communities and have performed an instrumental position in advancing the attain and success of the game, notably on the group recreation stage. We’re excited by the chance we now have in entrance of us to work with HSBC to take SVNS to the following stage.”

Summer season vibes, competition really feel

Off the sphere, SVNS is all about summertime vibes. Solar-soaked days and distinctive experiences as rugby, music, meals, and wellbeing mix to draw a brand new era of audiences.

Celebrating delicacies and tradition, every SVNS vacation spot will rejoice its distinctive native flavour, including to the general pleasure and pleasure of the occasions throughout the globe.

There will even be a spread of aggressive and social sports activities for all at SVNS festivals, from non-contact rugby to useful health. Each occasion will ship one thing distinctive.

New format, gender parity

Every occasion is designed to allow the world’s high gamers to be at their greatest. Following session with gamers, followers, broadcasters and unions, the competitors format has been revamped with SVNS set to ship much more drama, pleasure and jeopardy.

The highest eight positioned groups, primarily based on cumulative collection factors, on the conclusion of Singapore SVNS will safe their alternative to compete within the new ‘winner takes all’ Grand Closing in Madrid, the place the ladies’s and males’s SVNS champions can be topped.

The drama doesn’t finish there. Madrid will even play host to the excessive stakes relegation play-off competitors the place groups ranked ninth to twelfth will be part of the highest 4 groups from the World Rugby Sevens Challenger Sequence. The highest 4 positioned groups of this play-off will safe their place on subsequent yr’s SVNS.

Beneath the brand new mannequin, SVNS delivers gender parity with all seven rounds and the Grand Closing that includes mixed males’s and ladies’s competitions and equal participation charges, with a 70 per cent uplift in World Rugby’s funding in participation charges as a dedication to sustainable development.

SVNS uncovered – the way it will work

Iconic festivals: SVNS will dial up its tradition and leisure providing at every vacation spot, with meals and drinks to match the native flavours, a spread of aggressive and social sports activities to become involved in, all the things about SVNS provides you with that feel-good issue, from dawn to sundown.

Equal share of the highlight: Totally mixed and equal males’s and ladies’s festivals with variety of males’s groups diminished from 16 to 12, aligning with the Olympic competitors mannequin.
Jeopardy proper to the top: Annual ‘Grand Closing’ will crown SVNS champions and provide pathway alternative for 4 males’s and ladies’s groups to realize promotion from the World Rugby Sevens Challenger Sequence

Promotion and relegation reimagined: The groups ranked ninth to twelfth will be part of the highest 4 groups from the World Rugby Sevens Challenger Sequence in a excessive stakes relegation play-off competitors which can see the highest 4 groups safe their locations within the subsequent version of SVNS.

Alternative for all: The 4 unsuccessful groups will go into regional competitions to qualify for the following Challenger Sequence, which includes of 12 males’s and 12 girls’s groups competing within the second stage of worldwide rugby sevens.

Be there: HSBC SVNS 2024 will get underway in Dubai, UAE on 2-3 December, 2023 and serves as a vital build-up to the Paris 2024 Olympic Video games. For extra info on SVNS locations and tickets, go to www.SVNS.com