Australia's women's sevens rugby team will play in next year's Sydney 7s as part of an officially-sanctioned women's world series event.

The Australian team, which beat New Zealand 24-17 in the gold medal match in Rio to clinch the inaugural Olympic title, having earlier also won the world rugby sevens series title in May this year.

The Sydney 7s was first held at the Sydney Football Stadium in February this year in a two-day tournament.

The New Zealand men's team won the event, beating Australia 27-24 in the final with a last-minute try to Rieko Ioane.

Organisers confirmed the addition of a women's event for an expanded three-day edition of the tournament - from February 3-5, 2017 - in a statement on Friday.

"The success of our women's sevens team in Rio captivated the nation and put the sport of rugby sevens on the map, both here in Australia and all over the world," ARU chief executive Bill Pulver said.

"Fans will now be able to watch this history-making team in action on home soil with Sydney securing an official world rugby sevens series tournament for women, to be played alongside the men's tournament which was a huge success in 2016.

"Being crowned world and Olympic champions in the same year was an astonishing achievement given this group of players were brought together just three short years ago, and now many of the players have become household names in Australia as a result of their gold medal success."

Tickets for the Sydney 7s tournament will go on sale in October.

The women's world series event will be the second of five legs of the tournament, beginning in Dubai on December 1-2 and ending in Clermont-Ferrand in France on June 24-25.