2006–07 IRB Sevens World Series was the eighth of an annual series of rugby sevens tournaments for full national sides run by the International Rugby Board since 1999–2000.

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2006–07 IRB Sevens
Series VIII
Hosts	United Arab Emirates South Africa New Zealand United States Hong Kong Australia England Scotland
Nations	32
Final positions
Champions	New Zealand
Runners-up	Fiji
Third	Samoa
← 2005–06 2007–08 →

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New Zealand were the series champions, winning the final tournament in Edinburgh to take the lead on the standings. In that event, the then-defending series champions Fiji would have clinched the season crown by defeating Wales in the Cup quarterfinals. However, a Wales upset win opened the door for New Zealand to take the season crown by winning the Cup in Edinburgh, which they did.

Sevens is traditionally played in a two-day tournament format; however, the most famous event, the Hong Kong Sevens, is played over three days.

Tournaments in Australia and Scotland were added for 2006-07. The Australian event returned after a three season hiatus to effectively replace Singapore. The Scotland event effectively replaced the Paris Sevens.

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Leg	Venue	Date	Winner
Dubai	Dubai Exiles Rugby Ground	December 1–2, 2006	South Africa
South Africa	Outeniqua Park, George	December 8–9, 2006	New Zealand
New Zealand	Westpac Stadium, Wellington	February 2–3, 2007	Samoa
United States	Petco Park, San Diego	February 10–11, 2007	Fiji
Hong Kong	Hong Kong Stadium	March 30-April 1, 2007	Samoa
Australia	Adelaide Oval, Adelaide	April 7–8, 2007	Fiji
London	Twickenham	May 26–27, 2007	New Zealand
Scotland	Murrayfield, Edinburgh	June 2–3, 2007	New Zealand

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In a normal event, 16 teams are entered; in Hong Kong, 24 teams enter. In each tournament, the teams are divided into pools of four teams, who play a round-robin within the pool. Points are awarded in each pool on a different schedule from most rugby tournaments—3 for a win, 2 for a draw, 1 for a loss. The first tiebreaker is the head-to-head result between the tied teams, followed by difference in points scored during the tournament.

Four trophies are awarded in each tournament, except for Hong Kong. In descending order of prestige, they are the Cup, whose winner is the overall tournament champion, Plate, Bowl and Shield. In Hong Kong, the Shield is not awarded. Each trophy is awarded at the end of a knockout tournament.

In a normal event, the top two teams in each pool advance to the Cup competition. The four quarterfinal losers drop into the bracket for the Plate. The Bowl is contested by the third-place finishers in each pool, while the Shield is contested by the last-place teams from each pool.

In Hong Kong, the six pool winners, plus the two highest-finishing second-place teams, advance to the Cup. The Plate participants are the eight highest-ranked teams remaining, while the lowest eight drop to the Bowl.

The season championship was determined by the total points earned in all tournaments. The points schedules used for 2006–07 World Sevens Series were tweaked slightly from the previous season at the bottom end of each scale:

The points awarded to the teams at each event, as well as their overall series totals, are shown in the table below.

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2006–07 IRB Sevens – Series VIII

Pos.	Event  Team	Dubai	George	Well­ing­ton	San Diego	Hong Kong	Adel­aide	Lon­don	Edin­burgh	Points total
1	New Zealand	16	20	12	12	18	12	20	20	130
2	Fiji	12	12	16	20	24	20	16	8	128
3	Samoa	8	4	20	16	30	16	12	16	126
4	South Africa	20	16	12	8	18	6	8	4	92
5	England	12	12	8	4	8	4	2	2	52
6	Wales	0	8	–	–	4	2	12	12	38
7	Australia	4	2	0	4	8	8	6	0	30
8	France	6	4	6	12	0	0	0	0	28
9	Scotland	0	0	0	6	8	4	4	4	26
10	Argentina	2	0	2	0	3	0	4	12	23
11	Kenya	0	0	4	0	0	12	0	6	22
12	Tonga	–	–	0	2	8	0	–	–	10
13	Canada	4	0	4	0	0	0	0	0	8
14	Tunisia	0	6	–	–	0	–	–	–	6
15*	Portugal	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	2
15*	United States	–	–	0	0	2	–	–	–	2
17	Russia	–	–	–	–	1	–	0	0	1

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Sources: rugby7.com (archived), irb.com (archived), world.rugby (archived)

Notes:

   Light blue line on the left indicates a core team eligible to participate in all events of the series.

1. Points for the event winners are indicated in bold. A zero (0) is recorded in the event column where a team played in a tournament but did not gain any points. A dash (–) is recorded in the event column if a team did not compete at a tournament.
2. Teams that share a position in the standings (on the same total series points) are marked with an asterisk (*) beside their position.