This article is about the men's team. For the women's team, see Samoa women's national rugby sevens team.
Rugby team
Samoa
Union
Samoa Rugby Football Union
Nickname(s)
Manu Samoa
Coach(es)
Brian Lima
Captain(s)
Alatasi Tupou
Most caps
Uale Mai (359 matches)
Top scorer
Uale Mai (1,320)
Most tries
Mikaele Pesamino (161)
Team kit
World Cup Sevens
Appearances
8 (First in 1993)
Best result
Third place (1997, 2009)
The Samoa national rugby sevens team, referred to as Samoa Sevens or Manu Samoa 7s, competes in the annual World Rugby Sevens Series. Representing the polynesian country of Samoa, with a population of about 202,000, the team competes against some of the wealthiest countries in the world.[1] The Samoa sevens team is overseen by the Samoa Rugby Football Union, which oversees all of rugby union in Samoa.
Samoa won the 2009–10 World Series[2] by winning four tournaments – the Hong Kong Sevens,[3] the USA Sevens, the Adelaide Sevens, and the Edinburgh Sevens.[4] Samoa has played at all Rugby World Cup Sevens finals tournaments since the championship began in 1993; its best finish was third place in 1997 and again in 2007.
Samoa has won four Oceania Sevens titles since the first competition in 2008. They have also won all four gold medals at the Pacific Games Sevens and Pacific Mini Games Sevens between 2007 and 2013, defeating Fiji in the final on each occasion.
^Hunter, Russell (22 March 2010). "A breathtaking achievement". Samoa Observer. Retrieved 24 May 2010.
^"International Rugby Board, Retrieved 31 May 2010". Archived from the original on 31 March 2010. Retrieved 30 May 2010.
^"Samoa win Hong Kong Sevens". Times LIVE. 28 March 2010. Retrieved 29 March 2010.
^"Superb Samoa wins Adelaide Sevens". International Rugby Board. 21 March 2010. Archived from the original on 24 March 2010. Retrieved 29 March 2010.
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