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Asia Rugby Olympic Sevens Qualifiers
All the latest news and updates about the run-up to the annual Asia Rugby Sevens Series.
The city’s players get combative in training ahead of next week’s Hong Kong Sevens. Photo: Elson Li
Hong Kong Sevens

Hong Kong Sevens: city’s men ‘hurting’ from Cape Town, told to fight for spots

‘Anyone could take anyone’s place,’ captain James Christie says as coach Jevon Groves calls for response to Challenger Series exit.

Hong Kong celebrities and icons

Q&A | Style chats to HK’s National Rugby Sevens captain at ‘Champions in the Valley’

Hong Kong China Rugby

How to catch Japan and China women’s sevens teams? Hong Kong coach has a plan

Hong Kong China Rugby

Hong Kong sevens head coach plotting rebuild after failed Olympic qualifying bid

Head coach Jevon Groves ready to confront the ‘daunting prospect’ of building new Hong Kong sevens rugby team, after 2024 Olympic qualifying hopes go up in smoke.

Max Denmark is among the players head coach Jevon Groves will count on for the next Olympic cycle. Photo: Hong Kong Rugby Union
Paris 2024 Olympic Games

Hong Kong’s men fall short again in Olympic bid as Japan snatch Paris spot

More rugby sevens disappointment for Hong Kong as defeat in final of Asia qualifiers leaves them facing repechage challenge. Hong Kong’s women finish third to also secure second chance to reach France.

Paris 2024 Olympic Games

Hong Kong’s men and women stay on course for sevens spots at Paris Olympics

Men go unbeaten in pool stage in Asian qualifiers in Japan, racking up 129 unanswered points to set up semi-final clash with China, while women face Japan in last four on Sunday.

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Paris 2024 Olympic Games

Hong Kong captain Woodward hoping third time’s a charm in Olympics sevens bid

Hong Kong are competing in the Asian qualifiers in Japan this weekend with the memories of what might have been in 2019 still fresh in the mind.

Hong Kong captain Max Woodward will lead his side into battle once more this weekend. Photo: Fotogramax
Hong Kong China Rugby

Sevens head coach Groves backing Hong Kong to make a noise at Olympic qualifiers

Head coach Jevon Groves is confident in-form Hong Kong will not repeat the mistakes of four years ago when they target Olympic Games qualification in Japan this weekend.

Asia Rugby Sevens Series

Sevens star Doherty talks focus, Asian Games gold, and Paris Olympics bid

Liam Doherty put in a man-of-the-match performance in Hangzhou after being given a dressing down by coaches, and said acknowledging he was drifting helped reignite his drive.

Hong Kong China Rugby

Hong Kong rugby men’s and women’s Premierships cancelled

Hong Kong Rugby Union chief Robbie McRobbie confirms 33 senior rugby teams opted to withdraw from competitions due to family, career or national team commitments but reiterates organisers ‘certainly haven’t shut up shop’.

DAC Kowloon secure their first win of the Men’s Premiership 2020-21 season against Hong Kong Scottish. Photo: Ike Images
Hong Kong China Rugby

Hong Kong rugby coach Royce Chan on women’s leadership

In a male-dominated industry, former Hong Kong captain Royce Chan embraces the ‘vulnerability’ of coaching as she dreams of a second Rugby World Cup qualification.

Hong Kong’s Royce Chan after a sevens match against Japan in Hong Kong Football Club in 2013. Photo: SCMP
Hong Kong Sevens

Hong Kong Sevens ‘makes no commercial sense’ unless stadium half full

Hong Kong Rugby Union CEO Robbie McRobbie ‘disappointed but relieved’ after World Rugby agrees to postpone marquee event, but says competing teams were ‘desperate’ to travel to the city had event gone ahead in April.

Hong Kong China Rugby

Kowloon rugby players pick up hobbies during pandemic

Captain Victoria Wong leads by example as Kowloon Rugby Club premiership squad members put their spare time to good use as they stay fit and occupied.

Hong Kong Sevens

Ryan and Friday back decision to can Hong Kong Sevens and World Series

Coaches say the break will allow World Rugby to upgrade the overall sevens package ahead of the Olympic Games and give teams time to overcome injuries and improve their game for the 2020-21 season.

Hong Kong Sevens fans will have to wait until next April to see some action. Photo: K.Y. Cheng
Hong Kong China Rugby

2023 Rugby World Cup qualifiers explained

Hong Kong may have to play Samoa or Tonga to qualify for the 2023 Rugby World Cup in France, but first they must win the Asian Rugby Championship

Max Denmark busts through against the Cook Islands, en route to the round robin tournament for the last 2019 Rugby World Cup spot. Photo: Handout
Hong Kong China Rugby

Doris Chow enters HKRU Hall of Fame as player and ref

The community stalwart has been made an honorary member of the HKRU Hall of Fame, and recounts a career built around the love of the game and the friends she is still making.

Hong Kong China Rugby

Dai Rees leaves HKRU after illustrious 12-year career

The Welshman helped take various national programmes to new heights while developing the game locally

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Hong Kong Sevens

Hong Kong’s sevens teams hit pause as Covid-19 shuts down sport

This weekend, the men and women should have been playing on the big stage at the 2020 Hong Kong Sevens, but are now confined to their homes and trying to stay in shape.

Max Woodward and company are training remotely to stay in shape, hoping rugby resumes in the autumn. Photo: HKRU
Hong Kong Sevens

Canada’s sevens squad on the rise after years of turmoil

Downing France, Fiji and South Africa on their way to a bronze medal at the Canada Sevens this past weekend, the squad is on the rise

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Hong Kong China Rugby

Tokyo 2020 sevens test event called off over coronavirus

Asia Sevens Invitational cancelled over coronavirus but Japan Rugby Football Union hopes April’s planned Tokyo 2020 test event can take place at a later date.

Hong Kong China Rugby

Former EMT now the US women’s rugby sevens captain

Abby Gustaitis is a certified emergency medical technician who plays professional rugby for a US squad hunting for gold in Tokyo.

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Abby Gustaitis, a trained emergency medical technician, also leads US Rugby’s women’s sevens side. Photo: HSBC
Hong Kong Sevens

Hong Kong’s men’s rugby team finish second in Challenger Series

The squad lost to Uruguay in the semi-finals but salvaged third place by downing Chile 12-7.

Hong Kong's men's rugby sevens team in Uruguay. Photo: World Rugby
HSBC Sevens World Series

Hong Kong’s men’s rugby lose to Germany in first leg of Challenger Series

The squad will now head to Uruguay for the second leg of the series, which determines placings for the qualifying portion of the 2020 Hong Kong Sevens

HSBC Sevens World Series

How a Hong Kong-based booster club helps fund US rugby sevens

A group of rugby loving businessmen has helped a start-up sevens programme grow into perennial contenders in a matter of years

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Hong Kong China Rugby

HKFC win second straight men’s premiership title

The Hong Kong Football Club downed Valley in a nail-biting game as the only try came in the 78th minute

HKFC have won their second premiership title in a row and now head into the play-offs as favourites. Photo: HKRU
Hong Kong China Rugby

Hong Kong Rugby Union chief Robbie McRobbie awarded MBE

The Hong Kong-based Scot has been recognised for his ongoing use of sport as a tool for development and social change

Robbie McRobbie, CEO of the Hong Kong Rugby Union, has been awarded an MBE. Photo: Tory Ho
Hong Kong Sevens

Hong Kong men’s sevens rugby set for Challenger Series

The men will get a chance to secure prime placement for the qualifying portion of the 2020 Hong Kong Sevens against Chile, Germany, Italy, Tonga, Uruguay, Zimbabwe and regional rival Japan among others.

Hong Kong Sevens

World Rugby gives Hong Kong Sevens green light as sales similar to 2003 Sars outbreak

HKRU once again acknowledges special circumstances this coming year, noting ticket demand is around same level as 2003 when the Sars outbreak was ongoing

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