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The Asia Rugby Championship for women's national fifteen-a-side teams is a
rugby union Rugby union, commonly known simply as rugby, is a close-contact team sport that originated at Rugby School in the first half of the 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand. In its m ...
tournament that has been contested since 2006. Organised by
Asia Rugby Asia Rugby, formerly the Asian Rugby Football Union (ARFU), is the governing body of rugby union in Asia under the authority of World Rugby. Founded in 1968 by eight charter nations, the Union today has 36 member unions in countries across Asia, ...
, there are currently two competition divisions. The championship is also the continental qualifying tournament for Asian women's teams in the lead up to the
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.


Previous winners


All-time summary

A tally of top-3 tournament placings for the Championship division of women's teams, up to and including the 2022 edition:


Asia Rugby Championship


Division tournaments

Notes: Some sources suggest that the match in Tokyo was for the 2010 ARFU Division 1 XV Championship.http://www.fira-aer-rugby.com/forum2007/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=3671&p=39686#p39686 Relegated to the division below. Able to be challenged by the winner of the division below to play in a promotion-relegation play-off. Won promotion, or the right to a challenge play-off for promotion, to the division above. Development tournament organised by ARFU in 2010. The games were 40 minutes long and were not test matches.


2006 (Kunming, China)

China was the host, and winner, of the inaugural tournament.


Bracket


Semi-finals


3rd/4th place


Final


2007 (Kunming, China)

IRB tournament report


Bracket


Semi-finals


3rd/4th place


Final


2008 (Taraz, Kazakhstan)


First round


Semi-finals


5th/6th


3rd/4th


Final


2010 Asian tournaments

Some sources suggest that the following game was the ARFU Division 1 XV Championship: A development tournament was also organised by ARFU. The games were 40 minutes long and were not test matches.


2011 Asian Division II Championship

This was an official tournament for "developing" teams. There was no Division I tournament. The games were played in Vientiane, Laos, over three days. All games were 60 minutes in length.


2012 Asian tournaments


2012 Asian Division II Championship (Manilla, Philippines)

This was an official tournament for "developing" teams.


Bracket

Semi-finals Third place Final


2012 Asian Four Nations Championship (Kunshan, China)

The "Division I" Championship.


Bracket

Semi-finals Third place Final


2013 Asian Four Nations Championship

The 2013 championship was played as a knockout tournament, hosted at Almaty in
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.


Bracket

Semi-finals Third place Final


2016 Asia Pacific Championship

This tournament doubled as the qualification to the 2017 Women's Rugby World Cup, which is why Fiji (by virtue of winning the 2016
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) is attending. The top two teams directly qualify to the World Cup.


See also

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Women's international rugby union Women's international rugby union has a history going back to the late 19th century, but it was not until 1982 that the first international fixture (or "test match") involving women's rugby union took place. The match was organised in connection w ...
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Asia Rugby Championship The Asia Rugby Championship, or ARC, is an annual rugby union competition held amongst national rugby sides within the Asia Rugby region. The competition was originally known as the Asian Rugby Football Tournament when founded in 1969, and was call ...
(for men)


References

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