Asia Rugby Women's Championship
| Sport | Rugby union |
|---|---|
| Founded | 2006 |
| Countries | China Hong Kong Japan Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Laos Philippines Singapore Thailand Uzbekistan |
| Confederation | Asia Rugby |
| Most recent champion(s) |  Japan (2017) |
The Asia Rugby Championship for women's national fifteen-a-side teams is a rugby union tournament that has been contested since 2006. Organised by Asia Rugby, there are currently two competition divisions. The championship is also the continental qualifying tournament for Asian women's teams in the lead up to the Rugby World Cup.
Previous winners
All-time summary
A tally of top-3 tournament placings for the Championship division of women's teams, up to and including the 2017 edition:
| Rank | Team | Champion | Runner‑up | Third place | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Kazakhstan | 5 | 2 | 0 | 7 |
| 2 | Japan | 4 | 3 | 2 | 9 |
| 3 |  China | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 4 |  Hong Kong | 0 | 4 | 4 | 8 |
| 5 |  Thailand | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
 Uzbekistan | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Totals (6 entries) | 10 | 10 | 8 | 28 | |
Asia Rugby Championship
| Year | Edn | Host • Teams
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Final placings | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Asian Rugby Championship | Winner | Runner-up | Third | Fourth | |||
| 2006 | I | Kunming | 4 | China
|
Hong Kong
|
Thailand
|
 Singapore
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| 2007 | II | Kunming | 4 | Kazakhstan
|
China
|
Japan
|
Singapore
|
| 2008 | III | Taraz | 6 | Kazakhstan
|
Japan
|
Uzbekistan
|
Singapore
|
| 2010* | IV | Tokyo | 2 | Japan
|
Hong Kong
|
— | — |
| Asian 4 Nations | Winner | Runner-up | Third | Fourth | |||
| 2012 | V | Kunshan | 4 | Kazakhstan
|
Japan
|
Hong Kong
|
‡ China
|
| 2013 | VI | Almaty | 4 | Kazakhstan
|
Japan
|
Hong Kong
|
† China
|
| 2014 | VII | Hong Kong | 4 | Kazakhstan
|
Hong Kong
|
Japan
|
‡ Singapore
|
| Asia Rugby Championship | Winner | Runner-up | Third | Fourth | |||
| 2015 | VIII | round-robin home or away |
3 | Japan
|
Kazakhstan
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Hong Kong
|
— |
| 2016 | IX | 3 | Japan
|
Kazakhstan
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Hong Kong
| ||
| 2017 | X | 2 | Japan
|
Hong Kong
|
— | ||
| 2020 | XI | 3 | |||||
Division tournaments
| Year | Div | Host • Teams
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Final placings | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ARC Divisions | Winner | Runner-up | Third | Fourth | |||
| 2010a | 2 | Sikuet | 3 |  Laos
|
 Philippines
|
Thailand
|
— |
| 2011 | 2 | Vientiane | 4 | § China
|
Thailand
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Philippines
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Laos
|
| 2012 | 2 | Manila | 4 | § Singapore
|
Thailand
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Philippines
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Laos
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| 2018 | 1 | Singapore | 3 | § Singapore
|
Philippines
|
 India
|
— |
| 2019 | 1 | Calamba | 4 | § China
|
Philippines
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India
|
Singapore
|
Notes:
^* Some sources suggest that the match in Tokyo was for the 2010 ARFU Division 1 XV Championship.[1][permanent dead link]
^† Relegated to the division below.
^‡ Able to be challenged by the winner of the division below to play in a promotion-relegation play-off.
^§ Won promotion, or the right to a challenge play-off for promotion, to the division above.
^a Development tournament organised by ARFU in 2010. The games were 40 minutes long and were not test matches.
2006 (Kunming, China)
China was the host, and winner, of the inaugural tournament.
Bracket
| Semi-finals | Final | |||||
| 17 November – Kunming | ||||||
| China | 53 | |||||
| 19 November – Kunming | ||||||
| Thailand | 11 | |||||
| China | 31 | |||||
| 17 November – Kunming | ||||||
| Hong Kong | 7 | |||||
| Hong Kong | 12 | |||||
| Singapore | 0 | |||||
| Third place | ||||||
| 19 November – Kunming | ||||||
| Thailand | 20 | |||||
| Singapore | 0 | |||||
Semi-finals
3rd/4th place
Final
2007 (Kunming, China)
Bracket
| Semi-finals | Final | |||||
| 2 November – Kunming | ||||||
| China | 39 | |||||
| 4 November – Kunming | ||||||
| Singapore | 6 | |||||
| China | 5 | |||||
| 2 November – Kunming | ||||||
| Kazakhstan | 34 | |||||
| Japan | 6 | |||||
| Kazakhstan | 11 | |||||
| Third place | ||||||
| 4 November – Kunming | ||||||
| Japan | 20 | |||||
| Singapore | 7 | |||||
Semi-finals
3rd/4th place
Final
2008 (Taraz, Kazakhstan)
First round
Semi-finals
5th/6th
3rd/4th
Final
2010 Asian tournaments
Some sources [1][permanent dead link] suggest that the following game was the ARFU Division 1 XV Championship: Template:Wrugbybox
A development tournament was also organised by ARFU. The games were 40 minutes long and were not test matches.
| Position | Nation | Games | Points | Table points | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Played | Won | Drawn | Lost | For | Against | Diff | |||
| 1 | Laos
|
2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 17 | 10 | 7 | 4 |
| 2 | Philippines
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2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 5 | 5 | 4 |
| 3 | Thailand
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2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 17 | -12 | 2 |
2011 Asian Division II Championship
This was an official tournament for "developing" teams. There was no Division I tournament. The games were played in Vientiane, Laos, over three days. All games were 60 minutes in length.[2]
| Position | Nation | Games | Points | Table points | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Played | Won | Drawn | Lost | For | Against | Diff | |||
| 1 | China
|
3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 140 | 0 | 140 | 9 |
| 2 | Thailand
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3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 77 | 38 | 39 | 7 |
| 3 | Philippines
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3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 20 | 87 | -67 | 5 |
| 4 | Laos
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3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 12 | 124 | -112 | 3 |
2012 Asian tournaments
2012 Asian Division II Championship (Manilla, Philippines)
This was an official tournament for "developing" teams.
Bracket
| Semi-finals | Final | |||||
| 14 June – Manila | ||||||
| Laos | 0 | |||||
| 16 June – Manila | ||||||
| Singapore | 74 | |||||
| Singapore | 21 | |||||
| 14 June – Manila | ||||||
| Thailand | 19 | |||||
| Philippines | 14 | |||||
| Thailand | 50 | |||||
| Third place | ||||||
| 16 June - Manila | ||||||
| Philippines | 55 | |||||
| Laos | 0 | |||||
Semi-finals
Third place
Final
2012 Asian Four Nations Championship (Kunshan, China)
The "Division I" Championship.
Bracket
| Semi-finals | Final | |||||
| 5 July – Kunshan | ||||||
| Japan | 41 | |||||
| 7 July – Kunshan | ||||||
| Hong Kong | 17 | |||||
| Japan | 8 | |||||
| 5 July – Kunshan | ||||||
| Kazakhstan | 17 | |||||
| Kazakhstan | 51 | |||||
| China | 0 | |||||
| Third place | ||||||
| 7 July - Kunshan | ||||||
| China | 3 | |||||
| Hong Kong | 27 | |||||
Semi-finals
Third place
Final
2013 Asian Four Nations Championship
The 2013 championship was played as a knockout tournament, hosted at Almaty in Kazakhstan.
Bracket
| Semi-finals | Final | |||||
| 4 September – Almaty | ||||||
| Kazakhstan | 91 | |||||
| 7 September – Almaty | ||||||
| Singapore | 7 | |||||
| Kazakhstan | 25 | |||||
| 4 September – Almaty | ||||||
| Japan | 23 | |||||
| Japan | 82 | |||||
| Hong Kong | 0 | |||||
| Third place | ||||||
| 7 September - Almaty | ||||||
| Singapore | 17 | |||||
| Hong Kong | 15 | |||||
Semi-finals
Third place
Final
2014 Asian Four Nations Championship
The 2014 tournament, hosted in Hong Kong, returned to a round robin format.[3]
| Position | Nation | Games | Points | Table points | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Played | Won | Drawn | Lost | For | Against | Diff | |||
| 1 | Kazakhstan |
3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 130 | 27 | +103 | 14 |
| 2 | Hong Kong |
3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 78 | 32 | +46 | 10 |
| 3 | Japan |
3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 68 | 69 | -1 | 6 |
| 4 | Singapore |
3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 10 | 158 | -148 | 0 |
2015 Asia Rugby Championship
2016 Asia Rugby Championship
This tournament doubled as the qualification to the 2017 Women's Rugby World Cup, which is why Fiji (by virtue of winning the 2016 Oceania Rugby Women’s Championship) is attending. The top two teams directly qualify to the World Cup.
2017 Asia Rugby Championship
2018 Asia Division I Championship
2019 Asia tournaments
2019 Asia Division I Championship
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2019 playoff for promotion to the Asia Championship
Kazakhstan advanced to the 2020 Asian Women's Championship after defeating China on aggregate scores in a two-game series in which each team won a match.[4]
2021 Asia Rugby Championship
The 2021 Asia women's championship was the final stage of 2021 Rugby World Cup qualifying for the Asia region.[5] Three women's national teams were scheduled to compete in the single round-robin tournament. Japan and Hong Kong, the two teams from the 2017 championship,were joined by Kazakhstan as the winner of the 2019 promotion playoff. The 2020 tournament, with the winner gaining direct entry to the 2021 World Cup, was originally moved from March to May due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but has since been postponed indefinitely.
| Test: | 2021-03-05 | Hong Kong
|
- | Japan
|
King's Park, Hong Kong | |
| Report [6] |
| Test: | 2021-03-09 | Kazakhstan
|
- | Japan
|
King's Park, Hong Kong | |
| Report [7] |
| Test: | 2021-03-13 | Hong Kong
|
- | Kazakhstan
|
King's Park, Hong Kong | |
| Report [8] |
See also
References
- ^ a b http://www.fira-aer-rugby.com/forum2007/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=3671&p=39686#p39686
- ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-04-05. Retrieved 2011-11-25.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ "Rugby: Hong Kong to host Asian Women's Four Nations". Sport Asia. 2014-04-25. Retrieved 2014-04-28.
- ^ "Kazakhstan remain on road to World Cup". Scrum Queens. Retrieved 11 February 2020.
- ^ "World Rugby announces new Women's Rugby World Cup 2021 qualification pathway". World.Rugby. 5 April 2019. Archived from the original on 8 April 2019.
- ^ "Asia Rugby Women's Championship 2020, Match 1". World.Rugby. Retrieved 10 February 2020.
- ^ "Asia Rugby Women's Championship 2020, Match 2". World.Rugby. Retrieved 10 February 2020.
- ^ "Asia Rugby Women's Championship 2020, Match 3". World.Rugby. Retrieved 10 February 2020.