After 10 events across HSBC SVNS, SVNS 2 and SVNS 3, just three tournaments remain as excitement builds to a season-ending crescendo, after which the 2026 HSBC SVNS World Champions will be crowned.
The top 12 men’s and women’s teams - eight sides from the main HSBC SVNS tour joined by four qualifiers from the just-completed HSBC SVNS 2 Series - will compete over a trio of three-day sevens extravaganzas in Hong Kong, Valladolid, and Bordeaux.
Argentina and South Africa’s women’s sides kicked off the sevens season in the third-tier HSBC SVNS 3, won through the HSBC SVNS 2 competitions in Nairobi, Montevideo and Sao Paulo to qualify for the season-ending World Championships. while Brazil pulled off the seemingly impossible in winning their first tournament on home soil in 10 years to grab the fourth and final qualifying spot in the women’s competition in the last match on the last day of the HSBC SVNS 2 Series.
Could they go all the way to the top of the HSBC SVNS ladder in a single season? Standing in the way of any against-all-odds Hollywood-style ending are the eight teams on the main tour, including five-time HSBC SVNS Series tournament 2026 winners and current World Champions New Zealand and great rivals Australia, who won the opening event of the season in Dubai and reached the final at every stop on the tour.
On the men’s side of the draw, HSBC SVNS 2 qualifiers Germany, Kenya, Uruguay and USA will look to upset the eight established main tour sides, notably three-time 2026 Series winners and reigning World Champions South Africa, as well as two-time champions and this season’s permanent podium fixtures Fiji.
After three days in Hong Kong, the HSBC SVNS World Championship Series heads to first-time venues in Europe for a back-to-back double-header in Valladolid, Spain, from 29 to 31 May; before finishing in Bordeaux, France, on 5 to 7 June.
As important as the dream of world title glory will be the prospect of playing on the main HSBC SVNS Series tour next season, with promotion comes the possibility of relegation, meaning intrigue and drama at both ends of the table during the final three-tournament phase of the season.
And when it’s all over, we’ll know not just the identities of the HSBC SVNS World Champions 2026, but which teams will compete in the core HSBC SVNS Series when the new season gets under way later this year, and which ones will face qualifying for the big show via the HSBC SVNS 2 Series.
World Championship Series Teams
Women: Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Fiji, France, Great Britain, Japan, New Zealand, South Africa, Spain, USA
Men: Argentina, Australia, Fiji, France, Germany, Great Britain, Kenya, New Zealand, South Africa, Spain, Uruguay, USA
HSBC SVNS World Championship tickets
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