Asian Sevens Series

Asian Sevens Series
Current season, competition or edition:
Current sports event 2014 Asian Sevens Series
Sport Rugby union
Founded 2009
No. of teams 12
Most recent champion(s)  Hong Kong (2014)
Most titles  Japan (3 titles)

The Asian Seven Series is an annual series of regional rugby sevens tournaments run by Asian Rugby Football Union featuring national sevens teams. It has been held regularly since 2009 to select the best men's national team in the sport of rugby sevens.

Tournaments

Tournaments that have featured in the Asian Sevens Series include:

Host union 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014
Brunei Brunei Brunei
China China Shanghai Shanghai Shanghai Shanghai Beijing
Hong Kong Hong Kong Hong Kong
India India Goa Mumbai Mumbai
Iran Iran Kish Island
Malaysia Malaysia Borneo Borneo Borneo Borneo Kuala LumpurKuala Lumpur
Philippines Philippines Subic
Singapore Singapore Singapore
Sri Lanka Sri Lanka Colombo
Thailand Thailand Bangkok Bang Saen
No. of Ranking events 2 2 2 3 4 3

Note: Bold denotes tournaments that are ranking events counting towards the annual series championship.

Honours

Year Winner Refs
2009  Japan [1]
2010  South Korea
2011  Japan [2]
2012  Hong Kong [3]
2013  Japan [4]
2014  Hong Kong [5]

See also

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