World Rugby HSBC Sevens Challenger 2025 up to a flying start in Cape Town

The opening round of the World Rugby HSBC Sevens Challenger 2025 started in the Athlone Stadium in Cape Town.

• Germany, Chile, Samoa and Canada lead the men's competition with two wins each.
• Women in South Africa, Argentina, Belgium and Kenya end the first day with perfect victory.
• The campaign will continue on Sunday from 10:00 a.m. local time (GMT+2).
• Opening of the World Rugby HSBC Sevens Challenger 2025 takes place in the Athlone Stadium in Cape Town, followed by the second round on March 7th to 8th.
• The top-dated men's and women's teams will pass to the third round in Krakow on April 11th to 12th.
• The Challenger offers a advertising movement to HSBC SVNS, with the four best men and women's teams secured their place in the promotion and descent in Los Angeles.
• Fans all over the world can see the action on rugBypass.tv

The opening round of the World Rugby HSBC Sevens Challenger 2025 started on Saturday in the Athlone Stadium in Cape Town. All teams played their first two pool games in the competition.

During the men's event, some intensely competitive games and close scorinia were prompted as Germany, Chile, Samoa and Canada, two victories to ensure their secure passage to the semi -finals.

In the women's tournament, in South Africa, Argentina, Colombia and Kenya, all of which ended the top of their tree trunks with two victories on the first day to secure places for the semi -finals on Sunday.

Take a look at pools, scores and devices

The campaign will continue from 10:00 a.m. local time (GMT+2) on Sunday with play-offs and both men and women's finals.

The first two rounds of the challenger replicate the competition format, which is used at the latest HSBC SVNS Cape Town tournament in December 2024. In this, the driving pool winners quickly progress to contest the semi-finals, while the second-placed teams for fifth to eighth places and the teams in their bathrooms will compete by two to twelve positions.

The Challenger series begins with two consecutive events in Cape Town, with the best eight men and women's teams on April 11th to 12th to the third and last tournament in the Stadium of the Municipal Stadium of the Henryk Reyman in Kraków.

The four men's and women's teams with the most cumulative points that were won in the three Challenger rounds then qualify for the HSBC-SVNS in Los Angeles on May 3 to 4, where they will compete against the lower four ranking teams of HSBC-SVNS 2025 future SVNS on side dishes with high stakes and side dishes at Bühne.

The Challenger was introduced in February 2020 to increase the development of Rugby -Sevens around the world and to offer a clear advertising movement in order to achieve the top level of global rugby seven for the short format of the game, which has been growing in the past two decades since the introduction of global Sevens series and advertising for Olympic sports at the Rio 2016 games in the past two decades recorded.

All teams qualified through their respective regional competitions for the HSBC Sevens Challenger.

Fans around the world can look at the action on rugBypass.tv or via domestic radio partners.

World Rugby HSBC Sevens Challenger 2025 Data:

• Cape Town, South Africa | 1-2 March
• Cape Town, South Africa | 7-8 March
• Krakow, Poland | 11.-12. April
• Los Angeles, USA | 3-4 May

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