Following a comprehensive consultation process the remaining rounds of the women’s and men’s HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series 2020 in Langford, London, Paris, Singapore and Hong Kong have been cancelled due to the ongoing and dynamic global nature of the COVID-19 pandemic, bringing the 2020 Series to ...
How rugby sevens became an Olympic sport #OlympicDay
Humphrey Kayange was preparing for the penultimate event of the 2008-09 World Rugby Sevens Series at Twickenham when he received a momentous request. An email had pinged into his account inviting the Kenyan to remain in London after the tournament to join the team that would make rugby’s case for ...
Rugby Returns Strong in Russia! : Russian Rugby Championship
On June 18, 2020 the “Liga Stavok - Russian Rugby Championship" season will start in Russia. The opening game RC “Lokomotiv” (Penza) – RC, and “VVA-Moscow Region” (Monino) will start in Penza city (Russia) at 15:00 (Moscow time). Moreover, the Russian Rugby Championship will be the first ...
Qualification process set for rugby world cup 2023
World Rugby has announced details of the qualification process for Rugby World Cup 2023 in France. Process designed to promote regional strength and the best teams to rugby’s showcase event 12 teams already qualified owing to top three pool placing at RWC 2019 RWC 2023 on track to be a ...
Asia Rugby Cancels Competitions Fixtures for the Third Quarter of 2020
Asia Rugby working with its Player Welfare and Medical Committee and relevant stakeholders and in line with the Return to Play guidelines provided by World Rugby has announced the prudent decision to Cancel all competitions scheduled from 1 July 2020 to 30 September 2020. Asia Rugby Calendar ...
Jordan and Qatar become associate members of World Rugby
The Jordan Rugby Committee, Qatar Rugby Federation and Turkish Rugby Federation have been welcomed as World Rugby associate members, bringing the number of national unions in membership to 127. World Rugby’s supreme decision-making body approved the recommendation of the Executive and Regional ...
World Rugby launches virtual High Performance Academy
Rugby activity continuing online World Rugby launches virtual High Performance Academy Webinars aimed at ensuring optimal alignment and capacity when rugby restarts World Rugby Virtual High Performance Academy launches World Rugby match official education launches More than 20 ...
World Rugby announce Women’s Executive Leadership Scholarship recipients in Asia
Four candidates from Hong Kong, Laos, Sri Lanka and Indonesia have been awarded scholarships 37 Executive Leadership Scholarships have been awarded worldwide since 2018 World Rugby recently extended the programme after game-changing outcomes Scholarship programme is a key strand of the ...
World Rugby publishes COVID-19 return to rugby guidelines
World Rugby has published guidelines for the safe return to rugby activities in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic via its player welfare website. Guidelines intended to assist unions and competitions in devising own framework that is compliant with respective national social-distancing and ...
Asia Rugby Continues to Review Competitions Fixtures for the Second Half of 2020
Following Asia Rugby decision on the 6-Apr-2020 to keep monitoring the global health situation to reach a solid decision whether to retain or cancel all Asia Rugby competitions scheduled from 1-7-2020 to 31-12-2020 in response to global health situation caused by the COVID-19 ...