New Caledonia national rugby sevens team

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The New Caledonia national rugby sevens team is a minor sporting side that represents New Caledonia in rugby sevens. They finished in sixth place at the 2011 Pacific Games.

History[edit]

In 2015, New Caledonia were placed in the same pool with defending champions, Samoa, and were joined by Tonga, Vanuatu, and Nauru for the Pacific Games in Port Moresby.[1] In their opening match of the 2019 Pacific Games, they faced Fiji and were thrashed 47–0.[2] They also competed at the 2019 Oceania Sevens Championship in Fiji.[3]

Tournament History[edit]

Pacific Games[edit]

Pacific Games
Year Round Position Pld W D L
Guam 1999 Plate Final 6th 6 1 0 5
Fiji 2003 9th Place Play-off 9th 6 3 0 3
Samoa 2007 Bowl Final 9th 5 1 0 4
New Caledonia 2011 5th Place Play-off 6th 6 3 0 3
Papua New Guinea 2015 5th Place Play-off 5th 7 4 0 3
Samoa 2019 7th Place Play-off 8th 5 2 0 3
Solomon Islands 2023 TBD
Total 0 Titles 6/6 35 14 0 21

Oceania Sevens[edit]

Oceania Sevens
Year Round Position Pld W D L
Samoa 2008 Did Not Compete
French Polynesia 2009
Australia 2010
Samoa 2011 Bowl Final 9th 5 1 0 4
Australia 2012 Did Not Compete
Fiji 2013
Australia 2014 11th Place Play-off 11th 5 1 0 4
New Zealand 2015 Did Not Compete
Fiji 2016 7th Place Play-off 8th 6 1 0 5
Fiji 2017 [a] 9th 3 1 1 1
Fiji 2018 7th Place Play-off 8th 5 1 0 4
Fiji 2019 13th Place Play-off 14th 6 1 0 5
Australia 2021 Did Not Compete
New Zealand 2022
Australia 2023
Total 0 Titles 6/15 30 6 1 23

Players[edit]

Squad to 2015 Pacific Games:[4]

  • Vaitanaki, Jofrey
  • Talau Baptiste
  • Vaisioa Ervin
  • Palasio Bell
  • Abry, Arnaud
  • Jean Jacques Taputai
  • Emmanuel Roche
  • Gabriel Keletaona
  • Alexandre Keletaona
  • Petelo Falevalu
  • Jacques Dihace
  • Nisie Huyard

Previous Squads[edit]

Notes[edit]

  1. ^ Due to adverse weather conditions affecting the schedule of games, all classification finals except the fifth-place playoff and Championship Final were cancelled. The fifth-place match was played because of qualification implications.

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Sevens stars set for Pacific Games". www.world.rugby. 2015-07-07. Retrieved 2023-11-14.
  2. ^ Raniga, Nitesh (2019-07-12). "Fiji 7s thrash New Caledonia at Pacific Games". Fiji Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 2023-11-14.
  3. ^ Singh, Shanil (2019-11-08). "Fiji Airways Men's National 7s Team beat New Caledonia 66-0 in 3rd match of Men's International Competition". www.fijivillage.com. Retrieved 2023-11-14.
  4. ^ pg2015.gems.pro (9 July 2015). "2015 Pacific Games Men's 7s" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 11 July 2015.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)