Rugby Europe Women's Sevens

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Rugby Europe Women's Sevens

Current season, competition or edition: 2024 Rugby Europe Women's Sevens Championship Series
Sport	Rugby sevens
Founded	2003; 21 years ago (2003)
Countries	12 (in 2023)
Most recent champion(s)	France (4th title)
Most titles	Russia (7 titles)

The Rugby Europe Women's Sevens, previously the FIRA–AER Women's Sevens until 2013, is a series of regional championships for women's international rugby sevens in Europe. Prior to 2012, the annual tournament is held over two days, typically on a weekend in June, before the highest category tournament was reorganized as the Sevens Grand Prix Series, modeled after the format of the World Rugby Sevens Series. The tournaments are sanctioned and sponsored by Rugby Europe.

Rugby sevens — also known as 7-a-side, or 7s — is a short form of the sport of rugby union that was first played in 1883. The first (men's) internationals took place in 1973. As women's rugby union developed in the 1960s and 1970s the format became very popular as it allowed games, and entire leagues, to be developed in countries even when player numbers were small, and it remains the main form the women's game is played in most parts of the world.

However, although the first women's international rugby union 15-a-side test match took place in 1982, it was not until 1997 before the first women's international 7s tournaments were played, when the 1997 Hong Kong Sevens included a women's tournament for the first time. Over the next decade the number of tournaments grew, with almost every region developing regular championship competitions. This reached its zenith with 2009's inaugural women's tournament for the Rugby World Cup Sevens, shortly followed by the announcement that women's rugby sevens will be included in the Olympics from 2016.

The first official regional 7s championship for international women's teams from European was the European Women's Sevens Championship held in 2003 in Lunel, France. Since then, the regional 7s championships have periodically served as pre-qualifying competitions for the Rugby 7s World Cup, or other sevens tournaments.

The following are details of all regional women's international championships played in Europe, listed chronologically with the earliest first, with all result details, where known (included are the FIRA–AER Women's Sevens and other official regional championships, e.g. the Europe Emerging Nations tournaments).

Rugby Europe Women's Sevens
Year	Place	Champions	Runners-up	Third
FIRA-AER Women's Sevens
2003	Lunel	Spain	France	Switzerland
2004	Limoges	England	Italy	France
2005	Lunel	England	Spain	Netherlands
2006	Limoges	Wales	England	Netherlands
2007	Lunel	France	England	Spain
2008	Limoges	England	Netherlands	Russia
2009	Hanover	England	Spain	Netherlands
2010	Moscow	Spain	Netherlands	France
2011	Bucharest	England	Spain	Netherlands
Grand Prix Series
2012	Multiple	England	Spain	France
2013	Multiple	Russia	England	France
2014	Multiple	Russia	France	England
2015 (I)	Multiple	France	Russia	Spain
2015 (II)	Lisbon	Spain	Ireland	Portugal
2016	Multiple	Russia	France	Ireland
2017	Multiple	Russia	Ireland	France
2018	Multiple	Russia	France	Ireland
2019 (I)	Multiple	Russia	France	Ireland
2019 (II)	Kazan	England	Russia	France
2020	Series not played because of COVID-19 pandemic.
Championship Series
2021	Multiple	Russia	Poland	Spain
2022	Multiple	Poland	Ireland	Scotland
2023	Multiple	France	Spain	Great Britain
2024	Multiple	France	Belgium	Spain

Team records for Championship Series

Team	Champions	Runners-up	Third
Russia	7 (2013, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021)	1 (2015)	1 (2008)
England	6 (2004, 2005, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012)	3 (2006, 2007, 2013)	1 (2014)
France	4 (2007, 2015, 2023, 2024)	5 (2003, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2019)	5 (2004, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2017)
Spain	2 (2003, 2010)	5 (2005, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2023)	4 (2007, 2015, 2021, 2024)
Poland	1 (2022)	1 (2021)	–
Wales	1 (2006)	–	–
Netherlands	–	2 (2008, 2010)	4 (2005, 2006, 2009, 2011)
Ireland	–	2 (2017, 2022)	3 (2016, 2018, 2019)
Italy	–	1 (2004)	–
Belgium	–	1 (2024)	–
Switzerland	–	–	1 (2003)
Scotland	–	–	1 (2022)
Great Britain	–	–	1 (2023)

Year	Host	Champions	Runners-up	Third
2005	Prague	Russia	Germany	Lithuania
2006	Limoges	Romania	Andorra	Poland
2007	Zagreb	France U20	Switzerland	Germany
2008	Multiple	Romania	Finland	Israel
		Germany	Moldova	Andorra
2009	Bruges	Finland	Czech Republic	Malta
2010	Bucharest	Moldova	Switzerland	Belgium
2011	Riga	Ukraine	Switzerland	Czech Republic
2012	Multiple	Wales	Croatia	Romania
		Ireland	Scotland	Belgium
2013	Prague	Belgium	Sweden	Czech Republic
2014	Bergen	Ukraine	Scotland	Romania
2015	Kaunas	Belgium	Finland	Sweden
2016	Multiple	Sweden	Poland	Scotland
2017	Multiple	Scotland	Germany	Ukraine
2018	Multiple	Netherlands	Ukraine	Sweden
2019	Multiple	Germany	Romania	Czech Republic
2020	Series not played because of COVID-19 pandemic.
2021	Zagreb	Ukraine	Czech Republic	Sweden
2022	Multiple [1]	England	Italy	Portugal
2023	Multiple	Ukraine	Turkey	Finland
2024	Multiple	Sweden	Georgia	Denmark

Year	Host	Champions	Runners-up	Third
2007	Zenica	Finland	Malta	Moldova
2009	Zenica	Switzerland	Poland	Hungary
2010	Odense	Ukraine	Hungary	Norway
2011	Zánka	Poland	Denmark	Georgia
2013	Bratislava	Finland	Norway	Israel
2014	Vilnius	Hungary	Lithuania	Israel
2015	Zagreb	Denmark	Israel	Croatia
2016	Sarajevo	Latvia	Malta	Turkey
2017	Košice	Norway	Austria	Georgia
2018	Zagreb	Georgia	Turkey	Croatia
2019	Zagreb	Moldova	Denmark	Austria
2020	Series not played because of COVID-19 pandemic.
2021	Belgrade	Israel	Austria	Croatia
2022	Belgrade	Austria	Bulgaria	Latvia
2023	Belgrade	Switzerland	Andorra	Slovakia
2024	Belgrade	Moldova	Slovakia	Lithuania

Emerging Nations
Year	Host	Champions	Runners-up	Third
2007	Katowice	Finland	Bulgaria	Czech Republic
2008	Vienna	Finland	Czech Republic	Poland
2009	Zánka	Hungary	Czech Republic	Poland
2010	Zánka	Hungary	Poland	Czech Republic
2011	Zánka	Czech Republic	Poland	Hungary
2012	Zánka	Romania	Hungary	Poland

• Rugby Europe official website
• European European Women's Sevens at Rugby7.com