Asia Rugby confirmed the commencement of the year 2021 competitions with Hong Kong hosting the Asia Rugby Women's Championship (ARWC) which was initially scheduled for 2020, the championship will also be considered as the qualifiers for the Rugby World Cup 2021 scheduled for September 2021 in New ...
Asia Rugby Hosts Inaugural World Rugby global pilot workshops for Leading Rugby
Asia Rugby Hosts Inaugural World Rugby global pilot workshops for Leading Rugby Late April 2020 - While most regions were still reeling from the impact of COVID-19 across the globe, Asia Rugby did a Region-wide survey to gather information on what Unions needed most for online Training & ...
Asia Rugby Committees for the period Jan 2021 until Dec 2024
Asia Rugby Committees for the period Jan 2021 until Dec 2024 Asia Rugby announces its revamped nine committees for the period, January 2021 until December 2024. For the first time in Asia Rugby’s history, the composition of the Committees have witnessed 29% female members representation, and an ...
Rugby 7’s Club Championship and Snow Rugby to be shown in Dubai
Rugby 7's Club Championship and Snow Rugby to be shown in Dubai As part of the implementation of the Memorandum of Understanding signed in February 2020, a working meeting between the Chairman of the Supreme Council of the Russian Rugby Federation, Igor Artemyev and the President of the Asia ...
The seven rules driving Japan women’s Tokyo 2020 preparation
Japan Women team manager Akane Kagawa has revealed the seven commandments it is hoped will help inspire the Sakura to win Olympic gold in Tokyo. Kagawa was a guest on Asia Rugby Live last month and made no secret of the fact that the hosts were determined to win the sevens tournament at the ...
Brett Gosper to leave World Rugby to join NFL Europe and UK
World Rugby can confirm that Chief Executive Brett Gosper is to leave the international federation early in 2021 to become the head of NFL in Europe and the UK. In almost nine years at the helm of World Rugby, Gosper has overseen transformational change of the international federation, ...
Rugby World Cup 2025 set to break new ground as tournament expands to 16 teams
World Rugby has confirmed that the women’s edition of the Rugby World Cup 2025 will expand to 16 team Women’s edition of the Rugby World Cup to increase from 12 to 16 teams from 2025 onwards Decision directly delivers against core pillar of the transformational women’s rugby strategic plan ...
Asia Rugby holds Annual General Meeting and Council meeting Remotely
Asia Rugby’s Council Meeting and Annual General Meeting (AGM) was held on Sunday 29th of November 2020 via Zoom application with full house attendance. Both meetings were chaired by Asia Rugby President Mr. Qais Al Dhalai with an attendance from World Rugby’s personnel the Head of Development ...
Iran and Laos achieve World Rugby full member status and Nepal becomes an associate member
Burkina Faso, Iran and Laos achieve World Rugby full member status Nepal and Panama become new associate members of international federation World Rugby membership rises to 128 unions across all continents Nielsen research published this month recorded 405 million rugby fans globally ...
Michael Leitch scholarship for young Mongolian boy
Austin Gansukh CEO of Mongolian Rugby updated Asia Rugby on the Michael Leitch scholarship for young Mongolian boy Norvoo Davaajav In 2018, I was pleasantly surprised by an email sent to me by non-other than from Michael Leitch himself. We followed up with a phone call, where I was still a bit ...