After the episode of the Paris XNUMX Games, it's back to normal for the world's elite rugby sevens. World Rugby has unveiled the calendar and stages of the next edition of the world circuit, the Sevens Series (SVNS), for the XNUMX-XNUMX season. It confirms the addition of Singapore and Los Angeles to the five destinations already validated, which brings the number of stages to seven, spread over seven months. As every year, the SVNS XNUMX will start in Dubai (November XNUMX to December XNUMX), before continuing at DHL Stadium in Cape Town, South Africa (December XNUMX-XNUMX). The World Tour will then visit Australia, in Perth (January XNUMX-XNUMX, XNUMX), then Vancouver, Canada (February XNUMX-XNUMX), Hong Kong at the new Kai Tak Stadium (March XNUMX-XNUMX), and finally Singapore for Round XNUMX (April XNUMX-XNUMX). The top eight men’s and women’s teams from the Singapore tournament will qualify for the World Championship, which will be held for the first time in Los Angeles on May XNUMX and XNUMX at Dignity Health Sports Park, the venue for the LA XNUMX Olympic Games. Los Angeles will also host the promotion and relegation play-offs, where the top four men’s and women’s teams from the HSBC Sevens Challenger will face the four lowest-ranked teams from the SVNS after Round XNUMX in Singapore. HSBC SVNS XNUMX will welcome three new teams: Kenya and Uruguay in the men's category, and China in the women's category, who join the elite of world rugby sevens after winning the promotion and relegation play-offs at the HSBC Sevens Challenger XNUMX in Madrid.
