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The Dubai 7s is an annual rugby sevens and social event held at The Sevens Stadium in Dubai, UAE. Founded in 1970, the event is the longest running sports event in the Middle East. Founded in 1970, the event is the longest running sports event in the Middle East.
The United Arab Emirates Sevens team is new to the sevens scene. They previously formed the Arabian Gulf sevens team along with Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia as part of the Arabian Gulf Rugby Football Union before the IRB disbanded the union. [1] The 2011 Dubai Sevens will be their debut as a national team.
The 2023 Dubai Sevens or SVNS DXB was a rugby sevens tournament played at The Sevens.Twelve men's teams and a similar number of women's teams participated. [1]South Africa won the men's event and their fifth consecutive title in Dubai, defeating Argentina in the final.
Revamped and rebranded, the sevens rugby world series produced the same old champions in the Dubai opening leg when South Africa's men and Australia's women triumphed on Sunday. In the women's ...
The 2021 Dubai Sevens was held as two rugby sevens tournaments on consecutive weekends in late November and early December that year. They were played as the fifty-first season of the Dubai Sevens , following the cancellation of the 2020 tournament due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic .
The Dubai Sevens also encouraged the setting up of a number of Arab teams. [ 2 ] Prior to the end of 2010, rugby in all six Gulf Cooperation countries was administered by a single governing body, the Arabian Gulf Rugby Football Union (AGRFU).
In 2023 World Rugby re-branded the now legacy World Sevens series to a new World Rugby SVNS Series (known for sponsorship reasons as the HSBC SVNS).Starting in December 2023 in Dubai, Cape Town, Perth, Vancouver, Los Angeles, Hong Kong, Singapore and will conclude in Madrid in June 2024.
The 2016 Dubai Sevens was the first tournament within the 2016–17 World Rugby Sevens Series. It was held over the weekend of 2–3 December 2016 at The Sevens Stadium in Dubai , United Arab Emirates .