The Papua New Guinea women's national rugby sevens team represents Papua New Guinea in international women's rugby sevens tournaments. They are regular participants at the Oceania Women's Sevens Championship and Pacific Games.
PNG's first international was in 2007 while hosting the first ever Pacific women's sevens championship (now known as Oceania Women's Sevens Championship) in Port Moresby. They won the 2011 Asia Pacific WomenâÂÂs Sevens Championship that was held in Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia.
In 2017, the team made their first appearance at the World Rugby Women's Sevens Series as an invited team to the 2017 Sydney Women's Sevens. They debuted at the Women's Sevens World Cup in 2018.
They finished in fourth place at the 2019 Oceania Women's Sevens Championship which earned them a spot at the 2020 Women's Rugby Sevens Final Olympic Qualification Tournament. The Palais did not qualify for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
At the 2023 Pacific Games in Honiara, they were defeated by Fiji in the gold medal final and had to settle for silver. They competed in the 2024 World Rugby Sevens Challenger Series in Dubai; they finished ninth overall in the first round. They finished eleventh overall at the 2024 Sevens Challenger Series.
A red box around the year indicates tournaments played within Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea have been a regular invitational team to the World Rugby Women's Sevens Series particularly at the Australian Women's Sevens (2017âÂÂ2019, 2023) and New Zealand Women's Sevens (2023).
The following shows leading career Papua New Guinean players based on performance in the World Rugby Women's Sevens Series.
In 2020, Papua New Guinea were scheduled to compete in the inaugural World Rugby Sevens Challenger Series after being the highest ranked non-core team from Oceania at the 2019 Oceania Women's Sevens Championship in Suva. However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, World Rugby postponed the tournament without rescheduling a future date, before eventually cancelling it altogether. Therefore, the official inaugural series was in 2022 in which Papua New Guinea gained a direct quota.
Papua New Guinea's squad to the 2024 World Rugby Sevens Challenger Series:
The Papua New Guinea Rugby Union announced its women's rugby sevens team on 28 June 2019.
Head coach: John Larry