title: 2022 RAN Sevens Qualifiers
text: # 2022 RAN Sevens Qualifiers
  
  The 2022 RAN Sevens Qualifiers are a North American rugby sevens tournament that took place at the Thomas Robinson Stadium, Nassau on 23 and 24 April 2022; they were held in The Bahamas for the third time. The defending champions from the 2021 event are Jamaica.
  
  Thirteen teams were involved in the tournament, though the United States were notable absentees. Nonetheless, three former winners participated at the event – Jamaica, Guyana, and Canada. Owing to the postponement of the 2022 RAN Super Sevens (originally scheduled to be held in Mexico City during February 2022), this event was created specifically to maintain qualification pathways to the 2022 Rugby World Cup Sevens (top two teams), 2022 World Rugby Sevens Challenger Series and 2022 Commonwealth Games (top team not already qualified via the World Rugby Sevens Series).
  
  ## Format
  
  The teams are divided into four round-robin pools and each play two matches against their pool opponents (Pool C teams play three matches). The top two sides in each pool advance to the Cup quarter-finals, from which the winners advance to the semi-finals (and final / third-place matches beyond those), while the losing quarter-finalists contest the Plate semi-finals and finals for fifth to eighth place.
  
  The remaining teams that did not qualify for the Cup rounds compete in a Shield round-robin pool for ninth to thirteenth place.
  
  ## Teams
  
  The thirteen teams competing in the Bahamas were:
  
  * Bahamas
  * Barbados
  * Belize
  * Bermuda
  * British Virgin Islands
  * Canada
  * Cayman Islands
  * Curaçao
  * Guyana
  * Jamaica
  * Mexico
  * Trinidad and Tobago
  * Turks and Caicos Islands
  
  ## Pool stage
  
  The final pool arrangements were announced on 22 April.
  
  All times in Eastern Daylight Time (UTC−04:00)
  
  * Legend
  * Advanced to Cup quarter-finals
  * Relegated to Shield round-robin
  
  ### Pool A
  
  | Team | Pld | W | D | L | PF | PA | PD | Pts |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | Canada | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 69 | 5 | +64 | 6 |
  | Trinidad and Tobago | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 46 | 38 | +8 | 4 |
  | British Virgin Islands | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 77 | –72 | 2 |
  
  ### Pool B
  
  | Team | Pld | W | D | L | PF | PA | PD | Pts |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | Jamaica | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 68 | 7 | +61 | 6 |
  | Curaçao | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 28 | 39 | –11 | 4 |
  | Guyana | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 55 | –50 | 2 |
  
  ### Pool C
  
  | Team | Pld | W | D | L | PF | PA | PD | Pts |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | Mexico | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 119 | 7 | +112 | 9 |
  | Cayman Islands | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 83 | 31 | +52 | 7 |
  | Turks and Caicos Islands | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 25 | 125 | –100 | 5 |
  | Bahamas | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 26 | 90 | –64 | 3 |
  
  ### Pool D
  
  | Team | Pld | W | D | L | PF | PA | PD | Pts |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | Bermuda | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 76 | 10 | +66 | 6 |
  | Barbados | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 52 | 24 | +28 | 4 |
  | Belize | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 94 | –94 | 2 |
  
  ## Knockout stage
  
  ### Shield competition (9th–13th place round-robin)
  
  Matches :
  
  ### Plate competition (5th–8th place playoffs)
  
  | Classification semi-finals | Classification semi-finals | Fifth place | Fifth place |
  | - | - | - | - |
  | April 24, 2022 – Thomas Robinson Stadium | April 24, 2022 – Thomas Robinson Stadium |
  | Barbados | 17 |
  | Barbados | 17 | April 24, 2022 – Thomas Robinson Stadium | April 24, 2022 – Thomas Robinson Stadium |
  | Curaçao | 14 | April 24, 2022 – Thomas Robinson Stadium | April 24, 2022 – Thomas Robinson Stadium |
  | Curaçao | 14 | Barbados | 14 |
  | April 24, 2022 – Thomas Robinson Stadium | April 24, 2022 – Thomas Robinson Stadium | | Barbados | 14 |
  | April 24, 2022 – Thomas Robinson Stadium | April 24, 2022 – Thomas Robinson Stadium | Cayman Islands | 10 |
  | Trinidad and Tobago | 7 | Cayman Islands | 10 |
  | Cayman Islands | 25 | | |
  | Cayman Islands | 25 | Seventh place | Seventh place |
  | | | April 24, 2022 – Thomas Robinson Stadium | April 24, 2022 – Thomas Robinson Stadium |
  | | | Curaçao | 7 |
  | | | Trinidad and Tobago | 29 |
  
  Matches :
  
  ### Cup competition
  
  | Quarter-finals | Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Semi-finals | | Final | Final |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | April 24, 2022 – Thomas Robinson Stadium | April 24, 2022 – Thomas Robinson Stadium | | | |
  | Canada | 38 | | | |
  | Canada | 38 | April 24, 2022 – Thomas Robinson Stadium | April 24, 2022 – Thomas Robinson Stadium | | |
  | Barbados | 14 | April 24, 2022 – Thomas Robinson Stadium | April 24, 2022 – Thomas Robinson Stadium | |
  | Barbados | 14 | Canada | 41 | |
  | April 24, 2022 – Thomas Robinson Stadium | April 24, 2022 – Thomas Robinson Stadium | | Canada | 41 | |
  | April 24, 2022 – Thomas Robinson Stadium | April 24, 2022 – Thomas Robinson Stadium | Mexico | 0 | |
  | Mexico | 27 | Mexico | 0 | |
  | Mexico | 27 | | | | April 24, 2022 – Thomas Robinson Stadium | April 24, 2022 – Thomas Robinson Stadium |
  | Curaçao | 7 | | | | April 24, 2022 – Thomas Robinson Stadium | April 24, 2022 – Thomas Robinson Stadium |
  | Curaçao | 7 | | | | Canada | 29 |
  | April 24, 2022 – Thomas Robinson Stadium | April 24, 2022 – Thomas Robinson Stadium | | | | | Canada | 29 |
  | April 24, 2022 – Thomas Robinson Stadium | April 24, 2022 – Thomas Robinson Stadium | | | | Jamaica | 12 |
  | Bermuda | 7 | | | | Jamaica | 12 |
  | Bermuda | 7 | April 24, 2022 – Thomas Robinson Stadium | April 24, 2022 – Thomas Robinson Stadium | | | |
  | Trinidad and Tobago | 5 | April 24, 2022 – Thomas Robinson Stadium | April 24, 2022 – Thomas Robinson Stadium | | | |
  | Trinidad and Tobago | 5 | Bermuda | 5 | | | |
  | April 24, 2022 – Thomas Robinson Stadium | April 24, 2022 – Thomas Robinson Stadium | | Bermuda | 5 | | | |
  | April 24, 2022 – Thomas Robinson Stadium | April 24, 2022 – Thomas Robinson Stadium | Jamaica | 24 | | Third place | Third place |
  | Jamaica | 22 | Jamaica | 24 | | Third place | Third place |
  | Jamaica | 22 | | | | April 24, 2022 – Thomas Robinson Stadium | April 24, 2022 – Thomas Robinson Stadium |
  | Cayman Islands | 14 | | | | April 24, 2022 – Thomas Robinson Stadium | April 24, 2022 – Thomas Robinson Stadium |
  | Cayman Islands | 14 | | | | Mexico | 21 |
  | | | | | | Bermuda | 5 |
  
  Matches :
  
  ## Final standings
  
  Legend :
  
  | Green fill | Qualified for the 2022 Rugby World Cup Sevens |
  | - | - |
  | Blue bar | Qualified for the 2022 Commonwealth Games and 2022 World Rugby Sevens Challenger Series |
  | Pos | Team |
  | 1 | Canada |
  | 2 | Jamaica |
  | 3 | Mexico |
  | 4 | Bermuda |
  | 5 | Barbados |
  | 6 | Cayman Islands |
  | 7 | Trinidad and Tobago |
  | 8 | Curaçao |
  | 9 | Guyana |
  | 10 | British Virgin Islands |
  | 11 | Bahamas |
  | 12 | Turks and Caicos Islands |
  | 13 | Belize |
  
  ### Note
  
  * ↑ Already qualified for the 2022 Commonwealth Games via the 2018–19 / 2019–20 World Rugby Sevens Series.
  