- Papua New Guinea national rugby sevens team
- Papua New Guinea national rugby league team
- Papua New Guinea women's national rugby sevens team
- Rugby union in Papua New Guinea
- Rugby league in Papua New Guinea
- Papua New Guinea
- Papua New Guinea Rugby Football Union
- Daniel Russell (rugby league)
- Hong Kong Sevens
- Nauru national rugby sevens team
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The Papua New Guinea national rugby sevens team competes in the Pacific Games, Commonwealth Games, Challenger Series and the Oceania Sevens. They finished third in 2009 and fourth in 2010, 2015, 2016 and 2023 in the Oceania Sevens. They missed out on a maiden Olympic spot after being defeated by Samoa 24-0 in the 2023 Oceania 7s Olympic Playoff.
Papua New Guinea has also played the Hong Kong Sevens World Series qualifier. In the 2015 edition, they went to the semifinals, where they lost to Russia. In 2016 they lost all matches in the group phase. In 2017 they reached the semifinals.
PNG qualified for the 2010 Commonwealth Games and 2014 Commonwealth Games. Papua New Guinea made its first appearance at the Rugby World Cup Sevens in 2018, following its fifth-place finish at the 2017 Oceania Sevens Championship.
Tournament history
= World Cup Sevens
== Commonwealth Games
== Pacific Games
== Pacific Mini Games
== Oceania Sevens
=Oceania Sevens Challenge
World Rugby Sevens
= World Rugby sevens series
=The Pukpuks Sevens have participated as an invited team to selected tournaments across 10 seasons on the world series circuit since the inaugural season in 1999–2000. Historically, they have participated in 18 tournaments particularly the New Zealand Sevens (2000-2002, 2004, 2008, 2011, 2015, 2017 and 2018), Australian Sevens (2000, 2002, 2011, 2017 and 2018), Fiji Sevens (2000), Japan Sevens(2000) and the Hong Kong Sevens (2002). To date, Papua New Guinea have played a total 127 matches accumulating 237 tries and 1507 points overall. Their best all-time season finish is 12th placing from the inaugural season in 1999-2000.
Player records
The following shows leading career Papua New Guinean players based on performance in the World Rugby Sevens Series.
= World Rugby Sevens Challenger Series
=Papua New Guinea have appeared in every edition of the World Rugby Sevens Challenger Series since the inaugural season in 2020. This was through qualification for being one of two highest ranked non-core World Rugby Sevens Series teams from the Oceania Sevens Championship.
Current squad
= Previous squads
=Squad to the 2023 Pacific Games:
Squad to the 2023 Oceania 7s:
Squad to the 2022 Oceania 7s:
See also
Rugby union in Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea women's national rugby sevens team
Papua New Guinea national rugby union team
Papua New Guinea women's national rugby union team
References
McLaren, Bill A Visit to Hong Kong in Starmer-Smith, Nigel & Robertson, Ian (eds) The Whitbread Rugby World '90 (Lennard Books, 1989)