How does World Sevens Football work?

World Sevens Football is a seven-a-side women’s competition featuring eight clubs in a grand slam series. The third edition takes place at Brentford’s Gtech Community Stadium in London from 28 to 30 May. Bayern Munich won the inaugural event in May 2025 in Estoril, Portugal, and San Diego Wave won the next event in December 2025 in Fort Lauderdale, US. Aston Villa, Chelsea, Everton, Leicester City, London City Lionesses, Manchester United, Tottenham Hotspur, and West Ham United compete. Teams play three to five matches on half-size grass pitches, with 30-minute matches split into two 15-minute halves. Teams are split into two groups for round-robin play, followed by semi-finals, a third-place match, and a final. Squads can include up to 14 players with unlimited rolling substitutions. Prize money totals $1.5m, with $500,000 for the winner and $250,000 for runners-up, and top-four distributions include contractual allocations for players and staff.

"World Sevens Football (W7F) is a seven-a-side competition featuring eight clubs in a women's 'grand slam' series. The third edition of the tournament will be played at Brentford's Gtech Community Stadium in London from 28 to 30 May. Bayern Munich won the inaugural competition in May 2025 in Estoril, Portugal, while San Diego Wave won the next tournament in December 2025 in Fort Lauderdale, US."

"The eight clubs taking part are Aston Villa, Chelsea, Everton, Leicester City, London City Lionesses, Manchester United, Tottenham Hotspur and West Ham United. Each team will play between three and five matches, on grass pitches half the size of the usual 11-a-side pitch. Each match will be played over 30 minutes, in two 15-minute halves."

"The eight teams will be split into two groups, playing in a round-robin format over the first two days. Chelsea, Everton, Leciester and London City Lionesses form Group 1, while Aston Villa, Manchester United, Spurs and West Ham make up Group 2. The top two clubs in each group will advance to the semi-finals, which will be followed by a third-place match and the final."

"While previous events in Estoril and Fort Lauderdale provided a prize money pool of $5m (3.76m) spread among its eight teams, this year's prize pot will be lower, at $1.5m (1.1m). The winner will receive $500,000 (372,000), with $250,000 (186,000) for the runners-up. Teams finishing in the top four have their prize money split evenly, with half of it contractually bound to go to competing players and staff, and the rest distributed as the club chooses."

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