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Papua New Guinea national rugby sevens team

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Nickname(s)
  
The Pukpuks

Appearances
  
0

Coach(es)
  
Douglas Guise

Location
  
Papua New Guinea

Papua New Guinea national rugby sevens team

Union
  
Papua New Guinea Rugby Football Union

The Papua New Guinea national rugby sevens team represents Papua New Guinea in rugby sevens. The team competes in the Oceania Sevens, where they finished third in 2009, and fourth in 2010, 2015 and 2016.

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The team has also entered select World Rugby Sevens Series tournaments as wildcrd. The team has been invited to the Wellington Sevens in 2000, 2001, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2015 and 2017. The team has also been invited at the 2000 Fiji Sevens, 2000 Brisbane Sevens, 2000 Tokyo Sevens, 2010 Adelaide Sevens, 2011 Adelaide Sevens, 2011 Gold Coast Sevens and 2017 Sydney Sevens. At the 2011 Gold Coast Sevens, PNG won over Niue and Japan to take 13th place.

Papua New Guinea has also played the Hong Kong Sevens World Series qualifier. In the 2015 edition, they went undefeated to the semifinals, where they lost to Russia. In 2016 they lost all matches in the group phase. The team has qualified for 2017 edition.

PNG qualified for the 2010 Commonwealth Games. So far PNG has yet to qualify for a Sevens World Cup.

Wellington Sevens

2007–08

  • Samoa 22–0 Papua New Guinea
  • New Zealand 41–0 Papua New Guinea
  • Canada 27–21 Papua New Guinea
  • Cook Islands 24–17 Papua New Guinea (1/4 finals Bowl)
  • Kenya 38–7 Papua New Guinea (SF Shield)

    • 2006–07

  • Samoa 26–0 Papua New Guinea
  • England 22–7 Papua New Guinea
  • Scotland 17–12 Papua New Guinea
  • Tonga 19–12 Papua New Guinea (1/4 finals Bowl)
  • Portugal 26–19 Papua New Guinea (SF Shield)

    • 2005–06

  • Australia 24–10 Papua New Guinea
  • England 64–0 Papua New Guinea
  • Scotland 34–12 Papua New Guinea
  • Canada 33–10 Papua New Guinea (1/4 finals Bowl)
  • USA 12–15 Papua New Guinea (SF Shield)
  • Tonga 19–14 Papua New Guinea (Shield Final)

    • 2010–11

  • Argentina 14 – 10 Papua New Guinea
  • New Zealand 45 – 0 Papua New Guinea
  • Scotland 12 – 14 Papua New Guinea
  • Papua New Guinea 10-22 Cook Islands (1/4 finals Bowl)
  • France 52-12 Papua New Guinea (SF Shield)

    • 2015–16

  • England 29 – 0 Papua New Guinea
  • New Zealand 38 – 7 Papua New Guinea
  • Canada 41 – 0 Papua New Guinea
  • Wales 41 – 0 Papua New Guinea
  • Samoa 47 – 5 Papua New Guinea

    • Australia Sevens

    Adelaide 2009–10

  • Kenya 27 - 7 Papua New Guinea
  • Fiji 41 - 0 Papua New Guinea
  • Wales 64 - 5 Papua New Guinea
  • England 47 - 0 Papua New Guinea
  • Tonga 45 - 0 Papua New Guinea

    • Adelaide 2010–11

  • Argentina 45–5 Papua New Guinea
  • England 45–12 Papua New Guinea
  • Scotland 19–14 Papua New Guinea
  • Kenya 26–17 Papua New Guinea
  • Tonga 24–19 Papua New Guinea

    • Gold Coast 2011–12

  • Argentina 33 – 0 Papua New Guinea
  • Samoa 38 – 0 Papua New Guinea
  • France 33 – 5 Papua New Guinea
  • United States 24-5 Papua New Guinea
  • Papua New Guinea 38 - 0 Niue
  • Papua New Guinea 31 - 19 Japan

    • Group C

    11 October 2010

    Bowl Quarter Final

    Bowl Semi Final

    Bowl Final

    Current squad

    Squad at 2016 Hong Kong Sevens:

  • Koroseta VENI
  • Tisa KAUTU
  • Lawrence KUSO
  • Arthur Apelis CLEMENT
  • Hensley PETER
  • Emmanuel Cecil GUISE
  • Wesley VALI
  • William TIRANG
  • Paul NELSON
  • Henry KALUA
  • George MORSEU
  • Karo KAUNA

    • References

    Papua New Guinea national rugby sevens team Wikipedia
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