Los Angeles SVNS 2025 – Pools and Format

The final leg of the HSBC SVNS 2025 season takes place in Los Angeles from 3-4 May as the World Championship 2025 and Relegation Play-Offs will be contested – we look at the Los Angeles SVNS 2025  pools and format as the season concludes.

World Rugby said, “The winner-takes-all season finale takes place in the Dignity Health Sports Park – the LA 2028 Olympic venue for rugby sevens – and features the top eight ranked men’s and women’s teams competing to be crowned HSBC SVNS 2025 Champions.”

All Black legend Dan Carter was in attendance in Singapore (we had a fascinating interview with him), where he commented on the upcoming HSBC SVNS World Championship event: “I like it. In the rugby calendar, it’s nice to have something to work towards and then high-pressure situations. You see it in a lot of other sports as well; you compete in a series, and then you have your champion at the end. Then, you go into a finals series. It just brings that element of edge and excitement, and things can happen.

Los Angeles SVNS 2025 – Pools World Championship

The pools are based on rankings and were confirmed at the conclusion of the event in Singapore. The World Championship competition format involves two pools of four teams each, with the top two teams in each pool reaching the semi-finals.

Women’s Pools Los Angeles SVNS 2025

Women’s Pool A features Olympic champions New Zealand, together with silver medallists Canada, as well as Japan and Great Britain.

Australia is in Pool B with France, the hosts, and the Olympic bronze medallists, the USA, and Fiji.

Men’s Pools Los Angeles SVNS 2025

In Men’s Pool A SVNS league winners Argentina will face South Africa, Olympic champions France and Great Britain.

Singapore victors Fiji are in Pool B with Spain, Australia and New Zealand.

SVNS Play-Off Competition – Los Angeles 2025

The teams placed ninth to twelfth in the HSBC SVNS 2025 rankings will also be in action in Los Angeles, joining the top four ranked teams from the World Rugby HSBC Sevens Challenger in the Play-Off competition.

These are for the women: Brazil, China, Ireland and Spain, and for the men: Kenya, Uruguay, Ireland and the USA

The third and final round of the Challenger took place in Kraków, Poland, from 11-12 April. The eight men’s teams competing in Krakow were Germany, Canada, Portugal, Chile, Samoa, Japan, Madagascar and Tonga. The women’s teams were Kenya, South Africa, Argentina, Colombia, Thailand, Czechia, Poland and Belgium.

The teams that qualified for the HSBC SVNS Play-Off competition in LA are;

• Women: Kenya, South Africa, Argentina, Colombia
• Men: Portugal, Canada, Germany and Samoa

Pools SVNS Play-Off Competition – Los Angeles 2025

Women’s Pools

Pool Play-Off A

• Brazil
• Spain
• Kenya
• Colombia

Pool Play-Off B

• China
• Ireland
• South Africa
• Argentina

Men’s Pools

Pool Play-Off A

• Kenya
• USA
• Portugal
• Samoa

Pool Play-Off B

• Uruguay
• Ireland
• Germany
• Canada

We think all of the media by now have heard the proposed new format for the HSBC SVNS from next season, and we know the teams have been informed. We think there is going to be a big outcry when it’s officially announced but we will wait and see what World Rugby confirms over the coming weeks.

How To Watch the LA SVNS 2025

The HSBC SVNS and Challenger will be available via broadcaster partners or RugbyPassTV.

You can see the full schedule and results here.

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• Third Leg Of HSBC World Rugby Sevens Challenger 2025 – Krakow.