2000 Fiji Sevens
IRB Sevens I
Host nation	Fiji
Date	11–12 February 2000
Cup
Champion	New Zealand
Runner-up	Fiji
Plate
Winner	Argentina
Runner-up	South Africa
Bowl
Winner	Papua New Guinea
Runner-up	Tonga
Tournament details
Matches played	41

The 2000 Fiji Sevens was a rugby sevens tournament held in Fiji as part of the inaugural IRB Sevens World Series. It was the eighth and final edition of the Fiji International Sevens and, in the wake of the Fijian coup d'état later that year, remains the only Fijian event so far included on the World Sevens circuit. The tournament was the sixth leg of the 1999-2000 Series.

The competition took place on 11 and 12 February at the National Stadium in Suva.^[1] Hosts, Fiji, were defeated 31-5 in the final by New Zealand,^[2] who claimed their third title of the series.

Teams

Sixteen national teams played in the tournament:^[2]

Pool stage

The pool stage was played on the first day of the tournament. The 16 teams were separated into four pools of four teams and teams in the same pool played each other once. The top two teams in each pool advanced to the Cup quarterfinals to compete for the 2000 Fiji Sevens title.

Key to colours in group tables
	Teams that advanced to the Cup quarterfinals
	Teams that advanced to the Bowl quarterfinals

Pool A

Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	+/-	Pts
Fiji	3	3	0	132	14	+118	9
Uruguay	3	2	1	45	54	-9	7
France	3	1	2	54	62	−8	5
United States	3	0	3	12	113	−101	3

Source: World Rugby Archived 2016-06-30 at the Wayback Machine^[3]

11 February 2000

Fiji	47–7	United States

Team	Pld	W	D	L	PF	PA	+/-	Pts
Samoa	3	2	1	0	51	34	+17	8
Canada	3	2	0	1	52	37	+15	7
Japan	3	0	2	1	29	45	−16	5
Tonga	3	0	1	2	34	50	−16	4

Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	+/-	Pts
Australia	3	3	0	94	5	+89	9
South Africa	3	2	1	61	33	+28	7
Cook Islands	3	1	2	47	47	0	5
Vanuatu	3	0	3	0	117	−117	3

Quarter-finals		Semi-finals		Final

12 February – Suva

France	33
		12 February – Suva
Croatia	10
		France	12
12 February – Suva
		Tonga	14
Tonga	22
				12 February – Suva
Cook Islands	5
				Tonga	17
12 February – Suva
				Papua New Guinea	19
Japan	33
		12 February – Suva
Vanuatu	12
		Japan	7
12 February – Suva
		Papua New Guinea	21
Papua New Guinea	33

United States	5

Pos.	Event Team	Dubai	Stellenbosch	Punta del Este	Mar del Plata	Wellington	Suva	Points total
1	Fiji	16	20	16	20	20	16	108
1	New Zealand	20	16	20	16	16	20	108
3	Samoa	12	6	12	12	12	12	66
4	Australia	8	8	8	12	12	12	60
5	South Africa	12	12	12	4	6	6	52
6	Canada	4	4	6	6	8	4	32
7	Argentina	—	0	4	8	4	8	24
8	France	6	0	2	4	2	0	14
9	Georgia	0	12	—	—	—	—	12
10	Tonga	4	2	—	—	4	0	10
11	Uruguay	—	0	4	0	0	4	8
12	Morocco	0	4	—	—	—	—	4
13	Papua New Guinea	—	—	—	—	0	2	2
	Scotland	2	—	—	—	—	—	2
	Spain	—	—	0	2	—	—	2
15	United States	0	—	0	0	0	0	0
16	Japan	0	0	—	—	0	0	0
17	Brazil	—	—	0	0	—	—	0
	Chile	—	—	0	0	—	—	0
	Cook Islands	—	—	—	—	0	0	0
	Croatia	—	—	—	—	0	0	0
	Germany	—	—	0	0	—	—	0
	Hong Kong	0	—	—	—	0	—	0
	Kenya	0	0	—	—	—	—	0
	Paraguay	—	—	0	0	—	—	0
	Peru	—	—	0	0	—	—	0
	Zimbabwe	0	0	—	—	—	—	0
27	Namibia	—	0	—	—	—	—	0
27	Vanuatu	—	—	—	—	—	0	0

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1999–2000 events	Dubai South Africa Punta del Este Mar del Plata Wellington Fiji Brisbane Hong Kong Tokyo Paris
Core teams	Australia Canada Fiji France New Zealand Samoa South Africa
Other teams	Arabian Gulf Argentina Brazil Chile China Chinese Taipei Cook Islands Croatia England Georgia Germany French Barbarians Hong Kong Ireland Italy Japan Kenya Malaysia Morocco Namibia Papua New Guinea Paraguay Peru Scotland Singapore South Korea Spain Sri Lanka Thailand Tonga United States Uruguay Vanuatu Zimbabwe
IRB World Sevens Series

Teams

Pool stage

Pool A

Pool B

Pool C

Pool D

Finals

Bowl

Plate

Cup

Tournament placings

Series standings

References