Asian Women's Sevens Championship

Asian Women's Sevens Championship

Asia Rugby
Sport	Rugby sevens
Founded	2000
Most recent champion(s)	Japan (2015)

The Asia Rugby Women's Sevens Series is the regional championship for women's international rugby sevens in Asia. Initially contested as a single tournament, the championship was expanded into a two-tournament series in 2014. The competition is sanctioned and sponsored by Asia Rugby, which is the rugby union governing body for the region.

Rugby sevens — also known as 7-a-side, or 7s — is a short form of the sport of rugby union that was first played in 1883. The first (men's) internationals took place in 1973. As women's rugby union developed in the 1960s and 1970s the format became very popular as it allowed games, and entire leagues, to be developed in countries even when player numbers were small, and it remains the main form the women's game is played in most parts of the world.

However, although the first women's international rugby union 15-a-side test match took place in 1982, it was not until 1997 before the first women's international 7s tournaments were played, when the 1997 Hong Kong Sevens included a women's tournament for the first time. Over the next decade the number of tournaments grew, with almost every region developing regular championship competitions. This reached its zenith with the first Women's Sevens World Cup in 2009, shortly followed by the announcement that women's rugby sevens would be included in the Olympics from 2016.

The first official regional 7s championship for international women's teams from Asia was held in Hong Kong, played as part of the 2000 Hong Kong Sevens tournament. In 2003, ten international teams competed in a separate tournament for the Asia C Cup, with six teams progressing to the Hong Kong Women's Sevens. Since then, the regional 7s championships have periodically served as pre-qualifying competitions for the Rugby 7s World Cup, or other sevens tournaments.

Champions

Winners of the Asian Women's Sevens Championship:

The following are details of all official regional women's international championships played in the Asia since the first tournament in 2000, listed chronologically with the earliest first, with all result details, where known (included are the ARFU Women's Sevens and other official regional championships, e.g. Asian championship classifications within the Hong Kong Women's Sevens tournament)..

2000

Played as part of the Hong Kong Sevens tournament.

2001

Played as part of the Hong Kong Sevens tournament.

2002

Played as part of the Hong Kong Sevens tournament.

2003

Venue/Date: Hong Kong, 27 March 2003^[2]

The top two from each pool progressed to the Hong Kong Sevens 2003 - Kazakhstan, Thailand, Hong Kong, Arabian Gulf

Group Stages

Classification Stages

The teams in 3rd, 4th and 5th split into two groups. The placings in these groups then played off in three finals, for 9th, 7th and 5th, the latter referred to as the Asia D Cup. Additionally the best two to progress to Hong Kong also played off for the Asia C Cup.

9th place

• Uzbekistan 0-28 Sri Lanka

7th place

• Hong Kong Barbarians 17-5 China

5th place AD Cup

• Singapore 12-10 Kyrgyzstan

AC Cup

• Kazakhstan 34-0 Hong Kong

2004

Venue/Date: Almaty, Kazakhstan 15–16 May 2004^[3]

2005

Venue/Date: Singapore, 15–16 April 2005 Summarised

2006

Venue/Date: Taskent, Uzbekistan 15–16 May 2006

2007

Date/Venue: 27–28 April 2007, Doha. (Source Sri Lanka union)

Participants: Japan, Singapore, Hong Kong, defending champions China, three-time winners Kazakhstan, Thailand, Sri Lanka, Uzbekistan and the Arabian Gulf.

Group stages presumably happened but it would appear from the classification games that China withdrew.

Classification Stages

Shield Final

• Uzbekistan 19-5 Sri Lanka

Bowl Final

• Hong Kong 5-5 Singapore (HK ranked higher so presumably decided in some way)

Plate Final

• Thailand 50-0 Arabian Gulf

Cup Final

• Kazakhstan 25-0 Japan

2007 South East Asia Sevens

Date/Venue: 6 October 2007, Singapore.

Group stage

• Cambodia 0-15 South Korea
• Singapore 48-0 Laos
• Cambodia Select 0-50 Thailand
• Cambodia 7-7 Laos
• Thailand 26-0 Singapore
• Cambodia Select 0-10 South Korea
• Cambodia 0-32 Singapore
• Thailand 62-0 South Korea
• Cambodia Select 0-15 Laos
• Cambodia 0-59 Thailand
• Cambodia Select 0-38 Singapore
• South Korea 15-10 Laos
• Cambodia 17-0 Cambodia Select
• Singapore 53-0 South Korea
• Thailand 48-0 Laos

Bowl Final

• Cambodia 25-10 Cambodia Select

Plate Final

• Laos 12-10 South Korea

Cup Final

• Thailand 22-0 Singapore

2008 Asian Championship/World Cup Qualifiers

Venue/Date: Hong Kong, 4–5 October 2008.

The winners, runners up and 3rd place all progressed to Dubai.

Group Stages

POOL C

Nation	Won	Drawn	Lost	For	Against
Thailand	2	0	0	36	15
Japan	1	0	1	37	12
Taiwan	0	0	2	5	51

• Japan 27-0 Taiwan
• Thailand 24-5 Taiwan
• Japan 10-12 Thailand

Classification Stages

Extra games for 9th place team

• Sri Lanka 41-0 Hong Kong Ba Bas
• Sri Lanka 47-0 HKRFU Chairman's Select

5th to 8th

• Arabian Gulf 17-7 Singapore
• Hong Kong 31-0 Taiwan

Semi Finals

• Japan 5-0 Kazakhstan
• China 7-14 Thailand

7th Place

• Singapore 29-5 Taiwan

5th Place

• Araban Gulf 0-12 Hong Kong

3rd Place

• Kazakhstan 5-17 China

Final

• Japan 17-12 Thailand

Development Tournament 2008

Was due to be played in Laos, 26 to 29 November 2008. It was believed to be a training forum with a tournament on the final day. Likely participants were Laos, Iran, Cambodia, Malaysia and Thailand. No scores were published.

2009

Venue/Date: May 30, 2009. Bangkok, Thailand. Japan withdrew due to concerns about H1N1. Korea withdrew due to "lack of preparation".

Pool Stages

Division 2

Nation	Won	Drawn	Lost	For	Against
Laos	3	0	0	36	22
Malaysia	2	0	1	43	22
Cambodia	1	0	2	17	29
India	0	0	3	20	43

• Laos 17 - 10 India
• Cambodia 5 - 17 Malaysia
• Laos 12 - 7 Malaysia
• Cambodia 7 - 5 India
• Malaysia 19 - 5 India
• Laos 7 - 5 Cambodia

Classification stages

The top four in the two pools in Division 1 played quarter finals. The 5th place teams formed two further three team leagues with the teams from Division 2.

9th to 14th

Cup Quarter Finals

• Thailand 25-0 Hong Kong
• China 31-5 Chinese Taipei
• Kazakhstan 21-5 Guam
• Uzbekistan 10-0 Arabian Gulf

Plate Semi Finals

• Arabian Gulf 34-0 Hong Kong
• Guam 15-5 Chinese Taipeii

Cup Semi Finals

• Thailand 22-10 Uzbekistan
• China 17-0 Kazakhstan

Bowl Final

• Singapore 10-7 Iran

Plate Final

• Arabian Gulf 12-7 Guam

Cup Final

• China 24-14 Thailand

Asian Championship 2010

24–25 July 2010 at Guangzhou, China

Pool Stages

Group E: - placing 9-13

Nation	Won	Drawn	Lost	For	Against
Philippines	2	0	0	??	??
India	1	0	1	??	??
Korea (13th)	0	0	2	7	29

• Philippines 31-0 Korea
• Korea 7-22 India
• Philippines 17-0 India

Bowl (9th-12th) semi-finals

• Malaysia 17-7 India
• Laos 0-40 Philippines

Placing 11/12th

• India 19 v Laos 5

Bowl final(9th/10th)

• Malaysia 0 v 20 Philippines

Plate semi-finals (5th-8th)

• Uzbekistan 5-14 Hong Kong
• Chinese Taipei 10-19 Singapore

Placing 7th/8th

• Uzbekistan 7-22 Chinese Taipei

Plate final (5th/6th)

• Hong Kong 24-12 Singapore

Championship quarter-finals

• China 24-0 Uzbekistan
• Japan 24-0 Hong Kong
• Kazakhstan 36-0 Chinese Taipei
• Thailand 45-10 Singapore

Championship semi-finals

• China 19-7 Japan
• Kazakhstan 25-10 Thailand

Bronze Medal Match

• Japan 0-19 Thailand

Gold Medal Match

• China 26-10 Kazakhstan

Asia-Pacific Championship 2010

29–31 October 2010 at Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia

Pool Stages