User:MacRusgail/Rugby union at the Pacific Games

A rugby union tournament at the Pacific Games (formerly the South Pacific Games) has taken place on several occasions. Unfortunately, detailed records of all tournaments have not been kept.

The rugby played has included fifteen-a-side, rugby sevens and touch rugby. Rugby league has also been played at the games.

Amongst the teams which have competed at the Pacific Games, are Fiji, Samoa and Tonga, all of which have competed in the Rugby World Cup, as well as lesser known teams such as the Solomon Islands, Wallis & Futuna and Papua New Guinea have competed in the Pacific Games. (Wallis and Futuna has not played since the 1970s)

• Suva 1963
• Nouméa 1966
• Port Moresby 1969
• Papeete 1971
• Guam 1975
• Suva 1979
  
• Apia 1983
• Nouméa 1987
• Port Moresby 1991
• Papeete 1995
• Guam 1999
• Suva 2003
• Apia 2007 - Rugby sevens, touch

• Nouméa 2011
• 2015

South Pacific
Mini Games
Honiara 1981 

• Rarotonga 1985
• Nuku'alofa 1989
• Port Vila 1993
• Pago Pago 1997
• Kingston 2001
• Palau 2005 -= no

Cook Islands 2009 - sevens, touch

• Wallis & Futuna 2013

External links

• Official site of the XIV Pacific Games in New Caledonia 2011
• Official site of the XIII South Pacific Games in Samoa 2007
• List of South Pacific Games and Mini Games on www.rsssf.com by Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation

References

• Cotton, Fran (Ed.) (1984) The Book of Rugby Disasters & Bizarre Records. Compiled by Chris Rhys. London. Century Publishing. ISBN 0-7126-0911-3
• Hopkins, John (ed) Rugby (1979 ISBN 0 304 30299 6)