The Australia women's national rugby sevens team, are the Australia national rugby sevens team of women. They were champions of the inaugural Women's Sevens World Cup in 2009. The team plays in the World Rugby Women's Sevens Series as one of the "core teams" on the world tour, of which they have been crowned Champions three times. The team also played in the preceding competition to the current world series, the IRB Women's Sevens Challenge Cup. In 2016, they won the inaugural gold medal at the Rio Summer Olympics.
The national sevens side is known as Australia and, as confirmed by captain Sharni Williams, does not have a nickname as of 2015. The team was sometimes referred to as the Pearls in sections of the media, but that name refers to Australia's developmental sevens side rather than the official national team. As of 2015, the developmental team also competes in the Pacific Games Sevens.
Australia won the 2021âÂÂ22 Women's Sevens Series title, they then won the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, and were later crowned champions of the Rugby World Cup Sevens completing 2022 with a historic clean sweep of every major tournament.
Australia has won the following: World Rugby Sevens Series
Rugby sevens at the Summer Olympics
Rugby sevens at the Commonwealth Games
Major tournament wins
Regional tournament wins
In 2016, the Australian women's sevens team was named Team of the Year at the Australian Institute of Sport Performance Awards.
A red box around the year indicates tournaments played within Australia
Notes: <div style="line-height:1.4em; margin-left:1.7em; font-size:90%;"> Australia VII or development team entered </div>
Squad named for the 2023 World Rugby HSBC Sevens Series in Vancouver from 3âÂÂ5 March.
Caps updated to the latest date: 5 March 2023
The following shows leading career Australian players based on performance in the Women's SVNS. Players in bold are still active.
The following Australia Sevens players have been recognised at the World Rugby Awards since 2013: