Asia Rugby Women's Sevens Series

Asia Rugby Women's Sevens Series

Sport	Rugby sevens
Founded	2000; 24 years ago (2000)
Most recent champion(s)	Japan (2023)
Most titles	Japan (9 titles)

The Asia Rugby Women's Sevens Series is the regional championship for women's international rugby sevens in Asia. Initially contested as a single tournament, the championship was expanded into a two-tournament series in 2014. The competition is sanctioned and sponsored by Asia Rugby, which is the rugby union governing body for the region.

The first official regional 7s championship for international women's teams from Asia was held in Hong Kong, played as part of the 2000 Hong Kong Sevens tournament. In 2003, ten international teams competed in a separate tournament for the Asia Champions Cup, with six teams progressing to the Hong Kong Women's Sevens. Since then, the regional 7s championships have periodically served as pre-qualifying competitions for the Rugby 7s World Cup, or other sevens tournaments.

Rugby sevens – also known as 7-a-side, or 7s – is a short form of the sport of rugby union that was first played in 1883. The first (men's) internationals took place in 1973. As women's rugby union developed in the 1960s and 1970s the format became very popular as it allowed games, and entire leagues, to be developed in countries even when player numbers were small, and it remains the main form the women's game is played in most parts of the world.

However, although the first women's international rugby union 15-a-side test match took place in 1982, it was not until 1997 before the first women's international 7s tournaments were played, when the 1997 Hong Kong Sevens included a women's tournament for the first time. Over the next decade the number of tournaments grew, with almost every region developing regular championship competitions. This reached its zenith with 2009's inaugural women's tournament for the Rugby World Cup Sevens, shortly followed by the announcement that women's rugby sevens would be included in the Olympics from 2016.

Tournaments that have featured as ranking events in the Asia Rugby Women's Sevens include:

The continental title was contested in a single tournament from 2000 to 2012 (Asia Rugby Women's Championship). The Asian Women's Sevens Series was introduced in 2013.

Host Year	China	Hong Kong	India	Korea	Malaysia	Singapore	Sri Lanka	Thailand	United Arab Emirates	Ranking events
2013			Pune					Bang Saen		2
2014	Beijing	Hong Kong								2
2015 a	Qingdao						Colombo			2
2016		Hong Kong		Incheon			Colombo			3
2017 b				Incheon			Colombo			2
2018		Hong Kong		Incheon			Colombo			3
2019	Huizhou			Incheon			Colombo			3
2020 c	Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic
2021 d	Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic								Dubai	1
2022				Incheon				Bangkok	Dubai	3
2023				Incheon				Bangkok		2
2024	TBC
Total	3	3	1	6	0	0	5	3	2	23

Notes:

Winners of the Asian Women's Sevens Championship:

Notes:

Year	Host	Winner	Refs
2017	Laos	South Korea	[5]
2018	Brunei	Malaysia	[6]
2019	Indonesia	Philippines	[7]
2021	Qatar	United Arab Emirates
2022	Indonesia	Singapore	[8]
2023	Qatar	United Arab Emirates	[9]
2024	Nepal	Philippines	[10]

Year	Host	Winner
2010	Malaysia	Kazakhstan
2011	Malaysia	Papua New Guinea
2012	Malaysia	Australia
2013	China	China
2015	Malaysia	Japan

The 2007 South East Asia Sevens was held on 6 October 2007 in Singapore.

Teams	P	W	D	L	PF	PA	PD
Thailand	5	5	0	0	245	0	+245	Qualify for Cup final
Singapore	5	4	0	1	171	26	+145
South Korea	5	3	0	2	40	125	–85	Qualify for Plate final
Laos	5	1	1	3	32	118	–86
Cambodia	5	1	1	3	24	113	–89	Qualify for Bowl final
Cambodia Select	5	0	0	5	0	130	–130

Bowl Final

Plate Final

Cup Final

• Asia Rugby Sevens Series (for men)