Watch the 2025-2026 HSBC SVNS Series live and on demand via Stan Sport.<\/a><\/p>\nBienne Terita and James McGregor make their return to the squads, with both teams finishing in the top three during the regular season.<\/p>\n
The Women will open their campaign against South Africa (17 April, 2:25 pm AEST), who took out the SVNS 2 title, then face Great Britain and Canada.<\/p>\n
Coach Tim Walsh enjoys the luxury of a near-full strength team to pick from, with only Charlotte Caslick (pregnancy) unavailable.<\/p>\n
“We head off to Round One of the World Championships in iconic Hong Kong – the traditional home of Rugby Sevens,” Walsh said.<\/p>\n
“The first six legs have provided the squad with a lot of confidence and belief of performing well.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Black Ferns obviously go in as favourites but we will only be looking towards our pool games with South Africa emerging from the SVNS 2 Championship, the ever-improving Great Britain and then Paris silver medallists Canada.\u201d<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, the Men will face the returning Kenya (7:56 pm), the USA and New Zealand, with James Turner set for his 25th event.<\/p>\n
“We\u2019re excited to start the World Championships at the home of Rugby Sevens in Hong Kong,” coach Liam Barry said.<\/p>\n
“It\u2019s a competition restart after six regular rounds and with four additional teams that now adds another layer of pressure to play well and qualify for the World Series in 2027.<\/p>\n
“We\u2019ve got a relatively fit and available squad to choose from and the non-selected players will get game time through the Hong Kong 10s played earlier in the week.”<\/p>\n
The top eight teams will qualify for SVNS 1 in 2026-27, with the bottom four teams relegated to SVNS 2.<\/p>\n
Every round of the HSBC SVNS World Championships will be shown exclusive, ad-free, live and on demand on Stan Sport.<\/p>\n
Australia Women\u2019s Sevens team for 2026 HSBC SVNS World Championships Hong Kong:<\/p>\n
2. Amahli Hala \u2013 7 events<\/p>\n
3. Faith Nathan \u2013 38 events<\/p>\n
5. Teagan Levi \u2013 30 events<\/p>\n
6. Madison Ashby (c) \u2013 31 events<\/p>\n
8. Kaitlin Shave \u2013 12 events<\/p>\n
9. Tia Hinds \u2013 27 events<\/p>\n
10. Isabella Nasser (c) \u2013 23 events<\/p>\n
12. Maddison Levi \u2013 32 events<\/p>\n
13. Heidi Dennis \u2013 11 events<\/p>\n
15. Kahli Henwood \u2013 10 events<\/p>\n
22. Bienne Terita \u2013 20 events<\/p>\n
55. Alysia Lefau-Fakaosilea \u2013 15 events<\/p>\n
65. Sariah Paki \u2013 40 events<\/p>\n
Australia Men’s Sevens team for 2026 HSBC SVNS World Championships Hong Kong:<\/p>\n
1 Henry Hutchison (c) \u2013 65 events<\/p>\n
2. Ben Dowling \u2013 26 events<\/p>\n
3. James McGregor \u2013 6 events<\/p>\n
4. Dietrich Roache \u2013 33 events<\/p>\n
7. Josh Turner \u2013 43 events<\/p>\n
10. Ben Dalton \u2013 15 events<\/p>\n
11. Maurice Longbottom \u2013 51 events<\/p>\n
13. Jayden Blake \u2013 12 events<\/p>\n
14. James Turner \u2013 24 events<\/p>\n
23. Aden Ekanayake \u2013 13 events<\/p>\n
33. Harry Wilson \u2013 6 events<\/p>\n
49. Archie Saunders \u2013 2 events<\/p>\n
77. Wallace Charlie \u2013 7 events<\/p>\n
Players unavailable for selection
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Will Cartwright (shoulder) \u2013 2026\/2027 season
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Charlotte Caslick (pregnancy) \u2013 2026\/2027 season
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Henry Paterson (knee) \u2013 2026\/2027 season
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HSBC SVNS WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS HONG KONG SCHEDULE<\/p>\n
AUSTRALIA MEN
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Friday 17 April: Australia v Kenya (7:56pm AEST)
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Friday 17 April: Australia v USA (11:10pm AEST)
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Saturday 18 April: Australia v New Zealand (3:47pm AEST)
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AUSTRALIA WOMEN
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Friday 17 April: Australia v South Africa (2:25pm AEST)
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Friday 17 April: Australia v Great Britain (5:35pm AEST)
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Saturday 18 April: Australia v Canada (1:27pm AEST)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Men’s and Women’s Sevens squads have made the lone change ahead of the opening round of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":595225,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,125979,40283,44,178643],"class_list":{"0":"post-595224","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-australia","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-australian-mens-sevens","11":"tag-australian-womens-sevens","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-sevens-world-series"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=595224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/595225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=595224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=595224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=595224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}