- Carling Beer Tent
- Fancy Dress
- Festival Entertainment
- Kopparberg Campsite
- Nintendo Festival Stage
- RedBull Players Lounge
- The Weekend
- VIP Arena
- V.VIP Celebrity Lounge
- Wii Fit Plus
- Become a sponsor
- Experiential Marketing
- Advertising
- Trade Stands
- Sponsor's Logos
- What the sponsors say
HISTORY
2010 Having grown significantly since the inaugural event in 2008, the 2010 festival hosted the largest rugby and netball festival in the world with 156 rugby sevens teams, 96 netball teams and 16 touch rugby teams competing on the sunny south coast. Live bands and DJs entertained the crowds all weekend in the Kopparberg Campsite, Nintendo Festival Stage and Carling Beer Tent. Radio 1’s, DJ Spoony also made an appearance spinning party tunes in the exclusive VIP Arena. Other entertainment included a stunt parachute display, video diary room, Pitchside Jacuzzi, party bus, fancy dress, big screen TV and Rock-e-oke. A host of celebrities and sports stars including England rugby internationals Austin Healey, Ugo Monye, Dan Hipkiss and Olympic gold medalist Jason Gardiner all enjoyed the weekend’s festivities in the exclusive V.VIP celebrity lounge.
2009
2009 saw the Bournemouth Sevens Festival double in size with 132 rugby teams, 88 netball teams and 20,000 sevens tickets sold.
The introduction of the National Netball Festival was a huge success with over 1,500 netball players enjoying the weekend.
In only its second year the Bournemouth Sevens Festival became the largest festival of its kind in the world!
More and more celebrities were in attendance including-
Austin Healey (BBC’s Strictly Come Dancing), Lewis Moody, Geordan Murphy, Will Carling, Olly Barkley, Kyran Bracken, Darren Anderton, Steffon Armitage, Delon Armitage, David Strettle, Mark Regan, Leon Lloyd, Zac Fenuati, Sailosi Tagicakibau and Junior Parramore.
Gladiator Ice presented the video footage over the weekend.
2008
The inaugural Bournemouth Sevens Festival was held in 2008.
Roger Woodall, Festival Director and a former rugby player, realised there was a unique opportunity to create a 2 day rugby sevens festival on par with world re-known tournaments such as Dubai, Hong Kong, Wellington and Amsterdam.
With 96 rugby teams the festival became the largest festival of its kind in Europe...not bad for its first year.
Team entries sold out 3 months before the festival.
England World Cup winners & players including Lewis Moody, Austin Healey, Olly Barkley, Ben Foden & Christian Wade all attended the festival.
The National Invitation Cup was won by Stash All Stars who had England players Delon and Steffan Armitage, Marcel Garvey and Samoan 7s International Sailosi Tagicakibau helping them lift the silverware.
12,000 people brought sevens tickets in our first year.
