{"id":587997,"date":"2025-11-23T03:36:25","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T03:36:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/587997\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T03:36:25","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T03:36:25","slug":"the-complete-list-of-2025-world-rugby-awards-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/587997\/","title":{"rendered":"The complete list of 2025 World Rugby Awards winners"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

With the announcement of the men\u2019s 15s player of the year, the full complement of World Rugby Awards winners for 2025 has been revealed.<\/p>\n

In 2025, the awards were staggered across the year, starting with the sevens awards winners in May and followed by the women\u2019s awards winners after the World Cup this year.<\/p>\n

Now that the men\u2019s international calendar has almost drawn to a close, the individual awards for the year are complete, with only the men\u2019s 15s dream team to be announced this week.<\/p>\n

Here is the full list of winners from the men\u2019s and women\u2019s game in both 15s and sevens:<\/p>\n

World Rugby Men\u2019s 15s Player of the Year:<\/strong> Malcolm Marx<\/a> (South Africa)<\/p>\n

\"Team Match Summary \"Team <\/p>\n

World Rugby Men\u2019s 15s Breakthrough Player of the Year:<\/strong> Fabian Holland<\/a> (New Zealand)<\/p>\n

International Rugby Players Association Men\u2019s 15s Try of the Year:<\/strong> Santiago Pedrero<\/a> (Chile, v Samoa, South America\/Pacific Play-off, RWC 2027 qualifier \u2013 October)<\/p>\n

World Rugby Coach of the Year:<\/strong> John Mitchell<\/p>\n

International Rugby Players Association Women\u2019s 15s Try of the Year:<\/strong> Maia Joseph<\/a> (New Zealand<\/a> v Ireland, RWC 2025 pool match \u2013 September)<\/p>\n

World Rugby Women\u2019s 15s Player of the Year 2025 in partnership with HSBC:<\/strong> Sophie de Goede (Canada)<\/p>\n

World Rugby Women\u2019s 15s Breakthrough Player of the Year 2025:<\/strong> Braxton Sorensen-McGee (New Zealand)<\/p>\n

World Rugby Women\u2019s 15s Dream Team of the Year in partnership with Asahi:<\/strong> 1. Hannah Botterman<\/a> (England), 2. Emily Tuttosi<\/a> (Canada), 3. Maud Muir<\/a> (England), 4. Sophie de Goede (Canada), 5. Abbie Ward<\/a> (England), 6. Alex Matthews<\/a> (England), 7. Jorja Miller<\/a> (New Zealand), 8. Kaipo Olsen-Baker<\/a> (New Zealand), 9. Justine Pelletier<\/a> (Canada), 10. Zoe Harrison<\/a> (England), 11. Joanna Grisez<\/a> (France), 12. Sylvia Brunt<\/a> (New Zealand), 13. Megan Zones (England), 14. Braxton Sorensen-McGee (New Zealand), 15. Ellie Kildunne<\/a> (England)<\/p>\n

World Rugby Referee Award in partnership with Emirates:<\/strong> Hollie Davidson (Scotland)<\/p>\n

International Rugby Players Special Merit Award:<\/strong> Dan Carter (New Zealand)<\/p>\n

HSBC SVNS Men\u2019s Player of the Year in partnership with HSBC:<\/strong> Luciano Gonzalez<\/a> (Argentina)<\/p>\n

HSBC SVNS Men\u2019s Player of the Year in partnership with HSBC:<\/strong> Jorja Miller (New Zealand)<\/p>\n

HSBC SVNS Men\u2019s Rookie of the Year:<\/strong> Enahemo Artaud (France)<\/p>\n

HSBC SVNS Women\u2019s Rookie of the Year:<\/strong> Nia Toliver (USA)<\/p>\n

SVNS Men\u2019s Top Try Scorer:<\/strong> Joji Nasova<\/a> (Fiji) and Marcos Moneta<\/a> (Argentina)<\/p>\n

SVNS Women\u2019s Top Try Scorer:<\/strong> Madi Levi (Australia)<\/p>\n

HSBC SVNS Men\u2019s Try of the Year:<\/strong> Marcos Moneta (Argentina<\/a> v Australia<\/a> in Hong Kong)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With the announcement of the men\u2019s 15s player of the year, the full complement of World Rugby Awards…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":587998,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4102],"tags":[4151,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-587997","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-rugby","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115596925229530827","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=587997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/587998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=587997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=587997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=587997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}