Singapore women's national rugby union team

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The Singapore women's national rugby union team are a national sporting side of Singapore, representing them at rugby union. The side first played in 2006.

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History

The history of women’s rugby in Singapore has been a short one. The game was introduced by the Singapore Rugby Union through the men’s clubs in 1996. The first Singapore women’s national 7s team was formed in 1997 and they represented the republic at the Hong Kong International Women’s 7s and the inaugural Asian Women’s 7s in the same year.

Since then, the Singapore women’s national 7s team has grown from strength to strength. One of their significant wins includes becoming plate winners in the Hong Kong International Women’s 7s in 2003. Within Asia, the team achieved it highest ranking in 2004, when it became 2nd in Asia behind Kazakhstan in the Asian Rugby Football Union’s Asian Women’s Championship 7s held in Almaty. The team retained their top three placing the next year when the Asian Women’s Championship 7s was hosted in Singapore.

As an indication of the growth of the game in the region, women’s rugby was included for the first time in the South East Asian Games 2007 in Korat, Thailand and the Singapore Women’s 7s team took the silver medal ahead of Cambodia and Laos.

With the help of the Singapore Rugby Union, the game in the 15s format was introduced to the clubs in 2005 and the first Singapore women’s 15s league was established in 2006.

The first Singapore national women’s 15s team was formed that year and took part in A.R.F.U.’s Women’s Championship 15s in Kunming. Although losing their first four test matches over 2006 and 2007, the team was not to be denied their first win for long. The Singapore Women’s National 15s team registered their first victory at the 2008 Asian Women’s Championship 15s in Taraz, Kazakhstan when they beat Kyrgyzstan 38-0. The Singapore Women narrowly lost a place in the finals to Japan.

In 2009 Singapore hosted the Asian World Cup qualification tournament.

Results summary

(Full internationals only)

Rugby: Singapore internationals 2006-
Opponent First game Played Won Drawn Lost Percentage
 China 2007 1 0 0 1 0.00%
 Hong Kong 2006 6 0 1 5 8.33%
 Japan 2007 3 0 0 3 0.00%
 Kyrgyzstan 2008 1 1 0 0 100.00%
 Malaysia 2009 1 1 0 0 100.00%
 Thailand 2006 1 0 0 1 0.00%
 Uzbekistan 2008 1 0 0 1 0.00%
Summary 2006- 14 2 1 11 17.86%

Results

See Women's international rugby for information about the status of international games and match numbering

Full internationals

[593]
2006-11-17 (AC) Hong Kong  12-0  Singapore Kunming [6/1/1]
[595]
2006-11-19 (AC) Thailand  20-0  Singapore Kunming [4/2/1]
[648]
2007-11-02 (AC) China  39-6  Singapore Kunming [3/3/1]
[650]
2007-11-04 (AC) Japan  20-7  Singapore Kunming [21/4/1]
[704]
2008-06-03 (AC) Kyrgyzstan  0-38  Singapore Taldykorgan, Kazahkstan [1/5/1]
[707]
2008-06-05 (AC) Japan  17-10  Singapore Taldykorgan, Kazahkstan [22/6/2]
[709]
2008-06-07 (AC) Singapore  0-15  Uzbekistan Taldykorgan, Kazahkstan [7/2/1]
[720]
2008-12-04 Singapore  10-10  Hong Kong St Andrew's School, Singapore [8/10/2]
[721]
2008-12-05 Singapore  0-5  Hong Kong Yio Chu Kang Stadium, Singapore [9/11/3]
[770]
2009-10-03 Singapore  63-0  Malaysia Yio Chu Kang Stadium, Singapore [10/1/1]
[771]
2009-10-10 Hong Kong  22-17  Singapore Hong Kong [12/11/4]
[773]
2009-11-04 (WCQ) Singapore  11-35  Japan Republic Polytechnic, Singapore [10/24/3]
[775]
2009-11-06 (WCQ) Singapore  3-16  Hong Kong Padang, Singapore [11/14/5]
[890]
2011-05-21 Hong Kong  53-8  Singapore Hong Kong [18/14/6]

Other matches

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2009-09-05 Malaysian Barbarians  7-10  Singapore A Kuala Lumpur [-/-/-]
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2010-04-17 Singapore A  5-10  Malaysia Yio Chu Kang [-/-/-]

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