Host nation United Arab Emirates Runners-up South Africa Runners-up Canada | Champions New Zealand Champions Russia | |
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Date 30 November – 1 December 2012 | ||
The 2012 Dubai Women's Sevens was a rugby sevens tournament held between 30 November 2012 and 1 December 2012 at The Sevens Stadium in Dubai. It was the 6th edition of the tournament and the first stop on the 2012–13 IRB Women's Sevens World Series
New Zealand were the first champions of the new series after defeating South Africa 41–0.
Format
The teams were drawn into three pools of four teams each. Each team played everyone in their pool one time. The top two teams from each pool advanced to the Cup/Plate brackets. The bottom two teams from each group went to the Bowl brackets.
References
2012 Dubai Women's Sevens Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA