New Caledonia national rugby sevens team

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.

This article is about the men's team. For the women's team, see New Caledonia women's national rugby sevens team.
New Caledonia
UnionNew Caledonia Rugby Committee
Team kit

History

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

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

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

Players

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

Notes
  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
  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)
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