Each National Olympic Committee (NOC) can enter a maximum of 2 teams of 12 athletes, 1 per each gender.

The six male and five other female teams were decided at the 2013 Rugby World Cup Sevens held in Moscow, Russia from 28–30 June 2013.

[2] The top ranking nation from each of the six regional unions qualified a team (in the girls’ tournament NACRA and CONSUR were combined).

[3] To be eligible to participate at the Youth Olympics athletes must have been born between 1 January 1996 and 31 December 1997.

[3] The schedule was released by the Nanjing Youth Olympic Games Organizing Committee.