Final teams for the 2009 women's 7's RWC

16 teams qualified for the world cup from 6 regions.

CONSUR (South America)
Brazil

FIRA-AER (Europe)
England
Netherlands
France
Russia
Spain
Italy

(CAR) AFRICA
South Africa
Uganda

(FORU) OCEANIA
Australia
New Zealand

ARFU (ASIA)
Japan
Thailand
China

NAWIRA (North America)
Canada
USA

There will be 4 pools of 4 teams and IRB has seeded 8 teams according to their relative strengths and how they performed in their regional qualifiers. The rest of the teams will be drawn randomly into the 4 pools.

seed 1 - England
seed 2 - Australia
seed 3 - Canada
seed 4 - New Zealand
seed 5 - Japan
seed 6 - Netherlands
seed 7 - South Africa
seed 8 - Brazil