Asia Rugby Sevens Series


The Asia Rugby Sevens Series is an annual series of regional rugby sevens tournaments run by Asia Rugby featuring national sevens teams. It has been held regularly since 2009 to determine Asia's best men's national team in the sport of rugby sevens.

History

The first season of the competition began in 2009 with two events happening in Shanghai and Borneo. In the first season, Japan took out the trophy after taking out the Borneo Sevens and finishing runner up in Shanghai.

Tournaments

Tournaments that have featured as ranking events in the Asian Sevens Series include:





Malaysia

Singapore

Sri Lanka

Thailand
Ranking events
2009ShanghaiBorneoColombo 2
2010ShanghaiBorneo2
2011ShanghaiGoa BorneoBangkok 2
2012ShanghaiMumbaiBorneo3
2013MumbaiKuala LumpurSingaporeBang Saen4
2014BeijingHong KongKuala Lumpur3
2015 QingdaoColomboBangkok3
2016Hong KongIncheonColombo3
2017Hong KongIncheonColombo3
2018Hong KongIncheonColombo3
2019HuizhouIncheonColombo3

Notes:

Italics denotes tournaments that are non-ranking events not counting towards the annual series championship.
The inaugural 2009 series also included non-ranking events at Kish Island in Iran, Subic in the Philippines, and Brunei.
It was originally planned to use the 2015 Asian Sevens Series as the qualifier for the 2016 Olympics but the series clashed with the 2015 Rugby World Cup hosted in England so a separate Asian Olympic qualifying tournament was held with the final stage hosted in Hong Kong.

Honours

;By year
YearSeries winnerRunner-upRefs
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019

;Series titles

TeamChampionRunner-up
72
36
12
1