The 2015 ARFU Men's Sevens Championships is an Olympic qualification tournament for

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which was held in

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on 7–8 November 2015.Boost for Hong Kong rugby’s Olympics hopes as city to host Asian qualifiers for Rio
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for the qualification but as the series clashed with the

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hosted in England, it was decided to use one qualifying tournament (with a pre-qualifying round) for Asia. The Preliminary round was held in

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on 7–8 March 2015.

Pre-qualifying round

Pool stage

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Semifinals

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Third Place Match

Final

Final standing

Olympic qualifying round

Teams

* (Automatic qualifier) * (Automatic qualifier) * ''(Host Nation)'' * (Preliminary round qualifier) * (Automatic qualifier) * (Automatic qualifier) ''(withdrawn)'' * (Automatic qualifier) * (Automatic qualifier) * (Automatic qualifier) * (Automatic qualifier) * (Automatic qualifier) * (Automatic qualifier) ''(withdrawn)''

Pool stage

All match times are HKT (

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Pool A

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Pool B

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Playoffs

9th/10th Place Playoff

Plate Semifinals

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7th/8th Place Playoff

Plate Final

Cup Semifinal

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3rd/4th Place Playoff

Cup Final

Final standings

References

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