Americas North Women's 7s
SportRugby sevens
Founded2005
Countries8 (in 2013)
Most recent
champion(s)		 Canada (2023)

The Rugby Americas North Women's Sevens, or RAN Women's Sevens, is the regional championship for women's international rugby sevens in North America and the Caribbean. The tournament is held over two days, typically on a weekend in November. It is sanctioned and sponsored by Rugby Americas North, which is the rugby union governing body for the region. Prior to 2016, it was referred to as the North America and Caribbean Women's Sevens.

Rugby sevens — also known as 7-a-side, or 7s — is a short form of the sport of rugby union that was first played in 1883. The first (men's) internationals took place in 1973. As women's rugby union developed in the 1960s and 1970s the format became very popular as it allowed games, and entire leagues, to be developed in countries even when player numbers were small, and it remains the main form the women's game is played in most parts of the world.

However, although the first women's international rugby union 15-a-side test match took place in 1982, it was not until 1997 before the first women's international 7s tournaments were played, when the 1997 Hong Kong Sevens included a women's tournament for the first time. Over the next decade the number of tournaments grew, with almost every region developing regular championship competitions. This reached its zenith with 2009's inaugural women's tournament for the Rugby World Cup Sevens, shortly followed by the announcement that women's rugby sevens will be included in the Olympics from 2016.

The first official regional 7s championship for international women's teams from North America and the Caribbean was held in Barbados in 2005. The tournament was run by the North America and West Indies Rugby Association (NAWIRA), which later became the North America Caribbean Rugby Association (NACRA) before adopting its current name of Rugby Americas North in 2016. The regional 7s championships have periodically served as pre-qualifying competitions for the Rugby 7s World Cup, or other sevens tournaments.

The following are details of all regional women's international championships played in North America and the Caribbean, listed chronologically with the earliest first, with all result details, where known (included are the NACRA Women's Sevens and other official regional championships, e.g. NAWIRA Women's Sevens tournaments).

Honours

Year Location Winner Refs
NAWIRA Women's 7s
2005Garrison Savannah, Barbados  United States
2006Garrison Savannah, Barbados  USA Development Eagles
2007Nassau, Bahamas  Canada
2008Nassau, Bahamas  United States
NACRA Women's 7s
2009Mexico City, Mexico  Guyana
2010Georgetown, Guyana  Guyana
2011Garrison Savannah Racetrack, Barbados  Maple Leafs
2012Twin Elm Rugby Park, Canada  Canada
2013Truman Bodden Sports Complex, Cayman Islands  Maple Leafs [1]
2014Mexico City, Mexico  Mexico
2015Cary, North Carolina, United States  United States
RAN Women's 7s
2016Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago  Maple Leafs
2017Mexico City, Mexico  Mexico
2018Saint James, Barbados  Mexico
2019George Town, Cayman Islands  Mexico
No tournaments in 2020 and 2021 due to impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. [2][3]
2022
(Apr)		Nassau, Bahamas  Canada
2022
(Nov)		 Mexico City, Mexico  Mexico
2023 Langford, British Columbia, Canada  Canada

Tournaments

NAWIRA Tournament 2005

Venue/Date: 19–20 November 2005, Barbados Summarised POOL A

Nation Won Drawn Lost For Against
USA 6 0 0 250 5
Trinidad and Tobago 5 0 1 127 56
Jamaica 4 0 2 119 59
Guyana 3 0 3 61 70
St Vincent 2 0 4 62 105
St Lucia 1 0 5 22 129
Barbados 0 0 6 10 227
  • Guyana 12-10 St Vincent
  • St Lucia 15-5 Barbados
  • Jamaica 17-0 St Vincent
  • USA 36-0 Trinidad and Tobago
  • Guyana 29-0 Barbados
  • St Vincent 10-7 St Lucia
  • Jamaica 10-0 Guyana
  • Trinidad and Tobago 46-0 Barbados
  • USA 46-0 St Lucia
  • Trinidad and Tobago 19-10 Jamaica
  • USA 38-0 Guyana
  • Jamaica 29-0 St Lucia
  • St Vincent 37-5 Barbados
  • Trinidad and Tobago 12-5 Guyana
  • USA 38-0 St Vincent
  • Jamaica 48-0 Barbados
  • Trinidad and Tobago 24-0 St Lucia
  • USA 52-0 Barbados
  • Guyana 15-0 St Lucia
  • Trinidad and Tobago 26-5 St Vincent
  • USA 40-5 Jamaica

Special Exhibition Match

NAWIRA Tournament 2006

Date/Venue: 11–12 November 2006, Garrison Savannah, Barbados. (Source NAWIRA)

  • Participants: Barbados, Jamaica, Guyana, Trinidad & Tobago, St. Lucia, St. Vincent

Day 1 Match Schedule

  • USA Development Eagles 22-0 Jamaica
  • Trinidad & Tobago 14-5 Guyana
  • Barbados 0-41 USA Development Eagles
  • Barbados 0-34 Jamaica
  • USA Development 19-0 Guyana
  • Trinidad & Tobago 25-0 Saint Lucia
  • Barbados 0-34 Guyana
  • USA Development Eagles 41-0 Saint Lucia

Day 2 Match Schedule

  • Guyana 0-0 Jamaica
  • Barbados 0-42 Trinidad & Tobago
  • Jamaica 34-0 Saint Lucia
  • USA Development Eagles 24-0 Trinidad & Tobago
  • Barbados 5-25 Saint Lucia
  • Guyana 36-0 Saint Lucia
  • Jamaica 26-5 Trinidad & Tobago

There were no extra classification games

Nation Won Drawn Lost For Against
USA Development Eagle 5 0 0 147 0
Jamaica 3 1 1 94 27
Trinidad & Tobago 3 0 2 80 55
Guyana 2 1 2 41 67
St Lucia 1 0 4 25 141
Barbados 0 0 5 5 176

NAWIRA Tournament 2007

Date/Venue: 17–18 November 2007, at Winton Rugby Centre, Nassau, Bahamas.

Participants: USA Developing Eagles, Canada Development, Guyana, and Jamaica. Trinidad & Tobago were a late withdrawal. (Source NAWIRA) Summarised

Matches

Day 1 Match Schedule

  • USA Dev Eagles 12-0 Jamaica
  • USA Dev Eagles 7-5 Guyana
  • Canada 22-0 Jamaica
  • Guyana 10-24 Canada
  • Guyana 0-10 Jamaica
  • USA Dev Eagles 7-17 Canada

Day 2 Match Schedule

  • Canada 21-0 Jamaica
  • USA Dev Eagles 24-0 Guyana
  • USA Dev Eagles 12-0 Jamaica
  • Guyana 0-38 Canada
  • USA Dev Eagles 15-19 Canada
  • Guyana 0-12 Jamaica

There were no extra classification games

Nation Won Drawn Lost For Against
Canada 6 0 0 141 32
USA Dev Eagles 4 0 2 77 41
Jamaica 2 0 4 22 67
Guyana 0 0 6 15 115

NAWIRA World Cup Qualifier 2008

Venue/Date: Nassau, Bahamas, 25–26 October 2008. World Cup qualifiers, two to qualify for Dubai.

Originally there were three groups of three but due to the very late withdrawal of St Vincent and the Grenadines it became two groups of four.

Group Stages

POOL A

Nation Won Drawn Lost For Against
USA 3 0 0 142 0
Trinidad & Tobago 2 0 1 41 52
Guyana 1 0 2 41 57
Bermuda 0 0 3 7 122
  • USA 45-0 Bermuda
  • Trinidad & Tobago 5-0 Guyana
  • Guyana 41-7 Bermuda
  • USA 52-0 Trinidad & Tobago
  • USA 45-0 Guyana
  • Trinidad & Tobago 36-0 Bermuda

POOL B

Nation Won Drawn Lost For Against
Canada 3 0 0 139 0
Jamaica 2 0 1 87 29
Barbados 1 0 2 10 101
Cayman Islands 0 0 3 5 111
  • Jamaica 39-0 Barbados
  • Canada 53-0 Cayman Islands
  • Jamaica 48-0 Cayman Islands
  • Canada 57-0 Barbados
  • Canada 29-0 Jamaica
  • Barbados 10-5 Cayman Islands

Classification Stages

Quarter Finals

  • USA 67-0 Cayman Islands
  • Jamaica 0-12 Guyana
  • Barbados 0-34 Trinidad & Tobago
  • Bermuda 0-34 Canada

Bowl Semi Finals

  • Jamaica 34-0 Cayman Islands
  • Barbados 10-10 Bermuda (Bermuda score SD try)

Shield Final (7th)

  • Cayman Islands 10-5 Barbados

Bowl Final (5th)

  • Jamaica 53-0 Bermuda

Cup Semi Finals

  • USA 59-0 Guyana
  • Canada 41-0 Trinidad & Tobago

Plate Final (3rd)

  • Guyana 15-5 Trinidad & Tobago

Cup Final (1st)

  • USA 14-14 Canada (Canada score SD try)

NACRA Tournament 2009

Date/Venue: November 14–15, Mexico City, Mexico. Guyana, St Lucia, Cayman, Mexico and Bahamas took part.[4]

Day 1 Match Schedule

  • Mexico 12-5 Cayman Islands
  • Guyana 17-10 Saint Lucia
  • Guyana 24-0 Cayman Islands
  • Saint Lucia 22-0 Bahamas
  • Mexico 5-12 Saint Lucia
  • Guyana 45-0 Bahamas
  • Mexico 12-17 Bahamas
  • Saint Lucia 15-0 Cayman Islands
  • Cayman Islands 22-12 Bahamas
  • Mexico 5-33 Guyana

Day 2 Match Schedule

  • Mexico 12-12 Saint Lucia
  • Guyana 47-0 Bahamas
  • Mexico 0-27 Guyana
  • Cayman Islands 10-5 Bahamas
  • Mexico 27-7 Bahamas
  • Saint Lucia 19-5 Cayman Islands
  • Saint Lucia v Bahamas (not played)
  • Guyana 26-0 Cayman Islands
  • Mexico 19-12 Cayman Islands
  • Guyana 19-0 Saint Lucia

There were no extra classification games

Nation Won Drawn Lost For Against
Guyana 8 0 0 250 15
St Lucia 4 1 2 90 58
Mexico 3 1 4 102 136
Cayman Islands 2 0 6 56 122
Bahamas 1 0 6 41 194

NACRA Sevens Championship 2010

26–27 July 2010, at Georgetown, Guyana[5]

Pool stage

  • Cayman 7-10 Mexico
  • Trinidad & Tobago 5-5 Jamaica
  • Guyana 46-0 Mexico
  • Cayman 0-36 Jamaica
  • Trinidad & Tobago 27-0 St Lucia
  • Guyana 0-0 Jamaica
  • Cayman 0-12 St Lucia
  • Trinidad & Tobago 31-7 Mexico
  • Guyana 10-0 St Lucia
  • Guyana 46-0 Cayman
  • St Lucia 10-0 Mexico
  • Cayman 0-43 Trinidad & Tobago
  • Mexico 12- 19 Jamaica
  • Guyana 12-0 Trinidad & Tobago
  • St Lucia 0 15 Jamaica

Seedings After Round Robin Tournament:

1st Seed, Guyana, 14 pts
2nd Seed, Jamaica, 13 pts
3rd Seed, Trinidad & Tobago, 12 pts
4th Seed, St Lucia, 9 pts
5th Seed, Mexico, 7 pts
6th Seed, Cayman, 5 pts

Semi-finals

  • Jamaica 7-12 Trinidad & Tobago
  • Guyana 21-0 St Lucia

5th place

  • Mexico 26-5 Cayman

3rd place

  • Jamaica 22-0 St Lucia

Final

  • Guyana 14-12 Trinidad & Tobago

NACRA Sevens Championship 2011

12–13 November 2011, at Bridgetown, Barbados[5]

Pool A

Nation Won Drawn Lost For Against
USA South 4 0 0 74 14
Guyana 2 1 1 56 19
St Lucia 2 1 1 27 24
Mexico 1 0 3 5 29
Barbados 0 0 4 0 76
  • Guyana 5-0 Mexico
  • St Lucia 7-19 USA South
  • Mexico 0-19 USA South
  • St Lucia 10-0 Barbados
  • Guyana 7-14 USA South
  • Mexico 5-0 Barbados
  • USA South 22-0 Barbados
  • Guyana 5-5 St Lucia
  • Guyana 39-0 Barbados
  • St Lucia 5-0 Mexico

Pool B

Nation Won Drawn Lost For Against
Maple Leafs 4 0 0 176 5
Trinidad & Tobago 3 0 1 101 26
Jamaica 3 0 1 62 27
Cayman Islands 1 0 3 22 94
Gudaloupe 1 0 3 7 107
St Vincent 0 0 4 10 109
  • Trinidad & Tobago 50-0 St Vincent
  • Jamaica 15-0 Guadeloupe
  • Maple Leafs 52-0 Guadeloupe
  • Cayman 22-5 St Vincent
  • Trinidad & Tobago 12-0 Cayman
  • Jamaica 0-38 Maple Leafs
  • Trinidad & Tobago 5-26 Maple Leafs
  • Jamaica 17-0 Cayman
  • Jamaica 30-0 St Vincent
  • Trinidad & Tobago 34-0 Guadeloupe
  • Cayman 0-60 Maple Leafs
  • St Vincent 5-7 Guadeloupe

Classification Stages

9th/11th Ranking Round-robin

Nation Won Drawn Lost For Against
Guadeloupe 1 1 0 19 15
Barbados 1 0 1 22 14
St Vincent 0 1 1 5 17
  • Barbados 12-0 St Vincent
  • Guadeloupe 5-5 St Vincent
  • Barbados 10-14 Guadeloupe

Cup Quarter Finals

  • USA South 31 - 0 Cayman Islands
  • Maple Leafs 26 - 0 Mexico
  • Jamaica 15 - 10 Guyana (in sudden death)
  • Trinidad & Tobago 5 - 0 St Lucia

Plate semi-finals

  • Cayman 5-10 Guyana
  • Mexico 5-10 St Lucia

7th/8th Place Playoff

  • Mexico 27-10 Cayman

Plate final(5th/6th)

  • Guyana 26-0 St Lucia

Cup semi-finals

  • USA South 5-26 Jamaica
  • Maple Leafs 17-0 Trinidad & Tobago

3rd/4th Playoff

  • Trinidad & Tobago 14-10 USA South

Final

  • Jamaica 0-38 Maple Leafs

NACRA World Cup Qualifier 2012

Venue/Date: Ottawa, Canada, 25–26 August 2012. World Cup qualifiers, winner to qualify for Dubai.

Originally six teams entered but the late withdrawal of Guyana resulted in a redraw and a single pool.

Pool Stages

  • Canada 62-0 Mexico
  • Jamaica 17-0 Cayman Islands
  • Canada 50-0 Cayman Islands
  • Jamaica 19-7 Trinidad & Tobago
  • Canada 45-0 Jamaica
  • Trinidad & Tobago 25-12 Mexico
  • Canada 39-0 Trinidad & Tobago
  • Mexico 35-0 Cayman Islands
  • Jamaica 24-0 Mexico
  • Trinidad & Tobago 36-0 Cayman Islands
Nation Won Drawn Lost For Against
Canada 4 0 0 196 0
Jamaica 3 0 1 60 52
Trinidad & Tobago 2 0 2 68 70
Mexico 1 0 3 46 111
Cayman Islands 0 0 4 0 137

Semi-finals

  • Trinidad & Tobago 22 - 5 Jamaica
  • Canada 42 - 0 Mexico

FINAL

  • Canada 46 - 0 Trinidad & Tobago

Notes

  1. ↑ "2013 NACRA 7s Day One - NACRA Rugby". www.nacrugby.com. Archived from the original on 2013-11-06.
  2. ↑ "RAN 7s will not scrum off in 2020". Kaieteur News. 24 August 2021. Archived from the original on 24 August 2021.
  3. ↑ "Turks and Caicos Islands to host 2021 RAN Sevens in October". Americas Rugby News. 22 June 2022.
  4. ↑ Guyana record double in men's and women's sevens
  5. 1 2 "Home". nawira.com.
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