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Avec l’In Extenso SuperSevens, la LNR veut surfer sur la vague de Paris 2024

L'équipe de France de rugby à sept, médaillée d'or du tournoi masculin de rugby à sept, prend un selfie au Champions Park du Trocadéro lors des Jeux olympiques de Paris 2024, le 29 juillet 2024, avec la Tour Eiffel visible en arrière-plan. (Photo by Ben STANSALL / AFP) (Photo by BEN STANSALL/AFP via Getty Images)

Il aura fallu trois éditions des Jeux olympiques pour que le rugby à 7 arrive « à la maturité » olympique, selon les mors de Sir Bill Beaumont, le président de World Rugby.

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La Ligue Nationale de Rugby, elle, souhaite aller plus vite. L’In Extenso SuperSevens – premier championnat professionnel de clubs consacré au rugby à 7 en France – créé seulement en 2020, veut désormais profiter de l’élan du rugby à 7 aux Jeux olympiques pour accélérer son développement.

La médaille d’or des garçons a offert une exposition extraordinaire au Sevens dans l’hexagone, déjà entrevue lors de la Grande Finale du SVNS à Madrid près de deux mois auparavant.

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La cinquième place des filles dans le tournoi olympique a prouvé quant à elle combien les Françaises avaient été professionnelles d’être capables de rebondir avec deux victoires malgré leur élimination en quart de finale et la déception qui les ronge toujours. Le rugby à sept féminin a continué de montrer sa force et sa valeur.

Hasard du calendrier, la grande nouveauté de l’In Extenso SuperSevens cette année est justement l’introduction d’un tournoi féminin.

« Après le titre olympique, nous nous réjouissons de retrouver les 16 équipes de cette compétition imprégnée de la culture rugby à 7 », s’enthousiasme René Bouscatel, le président de la LNR. « L’In Extenso SuperSevens participe à en diffuser les valeurs de partage, de convivialité et de cohésion et, en adéquation avec ces principes, nous sommes ravis de pouvoir lancer cette saison le tournoi féminin qui réunira les meilleurs clubs de France. »

« La pratique du rugby à 7 permet la mise en lumière de jeunes talents français, dotés de capacités sportives de haut niveau », estime pour sa part Lucien Simon, Vice-président de la Ligue Nationale de Rugby en charge des affaires sportives et du rugby à 7.

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« Félicitons-nous de cette progression et continuons en ce sens cette saison après le titre olympique de France 7 ! »

TOURNOI MASCULIN

Les 16 équipes : Aviron Bayonnais, LOU Rugby, Castres Olympique, Racing 92, Stade Toulousain, Montpellier HR, Barbarian Rugby Club, Monaco Rugby, Stade Français Paris, Stade Rochelais, Union Bordeaux-Bègles, Section Paloise, RC Toulon, ASM Clermont, USA Perpignan et Rugby Club de Vannes.

Les 16 équipes masculines s’affronteront au cours de trois étapes qualificatives estivales le 17 août à Mont-de-Marsan, le 24 août à La Rochelle et le 31 août à Pau. A l’issu de ces trois étapes, les vainqueurs d’étape et les meilleures équipes au classement général – soit 8 équipes qualifiées – se retrouveront à Paris La Défense Arena le samedi 1er février 2025 pour la finale.

TOURNOI FEMININ

12 équipes : ASM Clermont, Blagnac, FC Grenoble, Stade Toulousain, Montpellier HR, LOU Rugby, AC Bobigny, Les Lionnes, Stade Rennais, Stade Villeneuvois, Stade Français et Section Paloise.

Les 12 équipes féminines se retrouveront dans un premier temps à Pau pour leur étape qualificative les vendredi 30 et samedi 31 août.

Au terme de ces deux journées de championnat, les quatre meilleures équipes au classement général seront qualifiées pour la grande finale qui se déroulera à Paris La Défense Arena le 1er février 2025.

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JW 2 hours ago
Does South Africa have a future in European competition?

In another recent article I tried to argue for a few key concept changes for EPCR which I think could light the game up in the North.


First, I can't remember who pointed out the obvious elephant in the room (a SA'n poster?), it's a terrible time to play rugby in the NH, and especially your pinnacle tournament. It's been terrible watching with seemingly all the games I wanted to watch being in the dark, hardly able to see what was going on. The Aviva was the only stadium I saw that had lights that could handle the miserable rain. If the global appeal is there, they could do a lot better having day games.


They other primary idea I thuoght would benefit EPCR most, was more content. The Prem could do with it and the Top14 could do with something more important than their own league, so they aren't under so much pressure to sell games. The quality over quantity approach.


Trim it down to two 16 team EPCR competitions, and introduce a third for playing amongst the T2 sides, or the bottom clubs in each league should simply be working on being better during the EPCR.


Champions Cup is made up of league best 15 teams, + 1, the Challenge Cup winner. Without a reason not to, I'd distribute it evenly based on each leauge, dividing into thirds and rounded up, 6 URC 5 Top14 4 English. Each winner (all four) is #1 rank and I'd have a seeding round or two for the other 12 to determine their own brackets for 2nd, 3rd, and 4th. I'd then hold a 6 game pool, home and away, with consecutive of each for those games that involve SA'n teams. Preferrably I'd have a regional thing were all SA'n teams were in the same pool but that's a bit complex for this simple idea.


That pool round further finalises the seeding for knockout round of 16. So #1 pool has essentially duked it out for finals seeding already (better venue planning), and to see who they go up against 16, 15,etc etc. Actually I think I might prefer a single pool round for seeding, and introduce the home and away for Ro16, quarters, and semis (stuffs up venue hire). General idea to produce the most competitive matches possible until the random knockout phase, and fix the random lottery of which two teams get ranked higher after pool play, and also keep the system identical for the Challenge Cup so everthing is succinct. Top T2 side promoted from last year to make 16 in Challenge Cup

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JW 7 hours ago
Does South Africa have a future in European competition?

I had a look at the wiki article again, it's all terribly old data (not that I'd see reason for much change in the case of SA).

Number Of Clubs:

1526

Registered+Unregistered Players:

651146

Number of Referees:

3460

Pre-teen Male Players:

320842

Pre-teen Female Player:

4522

Teen Male Player:

199213

Teen Female Player:

4906

Senior Male Player:

113174

Senior Female Player:

8489

Total Male Player:

633229

Total Female Player:

17917


So looking for something new as were more concerned with adults specifically, so I had a look at their EOY Financial Review.

The total number of clubs remains consistent, with a marginal increase of 1% from 1,161 to 1,167. 8.1.

A comparative analysis of verified data for 2022 and 2023 highlights a marginal decline of 1% in the number of female players, declining from 6,801 to 6,723. Additionally, the total number of players demonstrates an 8% decrease, dropping from 96,172 to 88,828.

So 80k+ adult males (down from 113k), but I'm not really sure when youth are involved with SAn clubs, or if that data is for some reason not being referenced/included. 300k male students however (200k in old wiki data).


https://resources.world.rugby/worldrugby/document/2020/07/28/212ed9cf-cd61-4fa3-b9d4-9f0d5fb61116/P56-57-Participation-Map_v3.pdf has France at 250k registered but https://presse-europe1-fr.translate.goog/exclu-europe-1-le-top-10-des-sports-les-plus-pratiques-en-france-en-2022/?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp has them back up at 300k registered.


The French number likely Students + Club, but everyone collects data different I reckon. In that WR pdf for instance a lot of the major nations have a heavily registered setup, were as a nation like England can penetrate into a lot more schools to run camps and include them in the reach of rugby. For instance the SARU release says only 29% of schools are reached by proper rugby programs, where as the 2million English number would be through a much much higer penetration I'd imagine. Which is thanks to schools having the ability to involve themselves in programs more than anything.


In any case, I don't think you need to be concerned with the numbers, whether they are 300 or 88k, there is obviously a big enough following for their pro scenes already to have enough quality players for a 10/12 team competition. They appear ibgger than France but I don't really by the lower English numbers going around.

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