Upcoming season or competition: 2022 Asia Rugby Sevens Series | |
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| Sport | Rugby union |
|---|---|
| Founded | 2009 |
| No. of teams | 12 |
| Most recent champion(s) |  Japan (2023) |
| Most titles | Japan (8 titles) |
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.
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 that have featured as ranking events in the Asian Sevens Series include:
Host Year |  China |  Hong Kong |  India |  Korea |  Malaysia |  Singapore |  Sri Lanka |  Thailand |  United Arab Emirates | Ranking events |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | Shanghai | Borneo | a Colombo | 2 b | ||||||
| 2010 | Shanghai | Borneo | 2 | |||||||
| 2011 | Shanghai | Goa a | Borneo | Bangkok a | 2 | |||||
| 2012 | Shanghai | Mumbai | Borneo | 3 | ||||||
| 2013 | Mumbai | Kuala Lumpur | Singapore | Bang Saen | 4 | |||||
| 2014 | Beijing | Hong Kong | Kuala Lumpur | 3 | ||||||
| 2015 c | Qingdao | Colombo | Bangkok | 3 | ||||||
| 2016 | Hong Kong | Incheon | Colombo | 3 | ||||||
| 2017 | Hong Kong | Incheon | Colombo | 3 | ||||||
| 2018 | Hong Kong | Incheon | Colombo | 3 | ||||||
| 2019 | Huizhou | Incheon | Colombo | 3 | ||||||
| 2020 d (cancelled) | N/A | |||||||||
| 2021 e | Dubai | 1 | ||||||||
| 2022 | Incheon | Bangkok | Ajman | 3 | ||||||
| 2023 | Incheon | Bangkok | 2 | |||||||
| Total | 7 | 4 | 2 (+1) | 6 | 6 | 1 | 5 (+1) | 4 (+1) | 2 | 37 (+3) |
Notes:
^a Italics denotes tournaments that are non-ranking events not counting towards the annual series championship.
^b The inaugural 2009 series also included non-ranking events at Kish Island in Iran, Subic in the Philippines, and Brunei .
^c 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 so a separate Asian Olympic qualifying tournament was held with the final stage hosted in Hong Kong. [1]
^d The 2020 series was cancelled before any events were held, due to impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.
^e Incheon, Huizhou and Colombo were originally scheduled as legs of the 2021 series. [2] Due to impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, all three of those events were cancelled and replaced – initially by two events planned for Dubai, [3] but eventually by just one event in Dubai. [4]
| Year | Host | Winner | Refs |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 |  Qatar |  Philippines | [5] |
| 2018 | Singapore | United Arab Emirates | [6] |
| 2019 |  Indonesia | Malaysia | [7] |
| 2021 | Qatar | United Arab Emirates | [8] |
| 2022 | Indonesia | Singapore | [9] |
| 2023 | Qatar | Thailand | [10] |
| Year | Series winner | Runner-up | Refs |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | Japan | South Korea | [11] |
| 2010 | South Korea | Japan | [12] [13] |
| 2011 | Japan | Hong Kong | [14] |
| 2012 | Hong Kong | Japan | [15] |
| 2013 | Japan | Hong Kong | [16] |
| 2014 | Hong Kong | South Korea | [17] |
| 2015 | Japan | Hong Kong | [18] |
| 2016 | Hong Kong | Sri Lanka | |
| 2017 | Japan | Hong Kong | |
| 2018 | Japan | Hong Kong | [19] |
| 2019 | Japan | Hong Kong | |
| 2020 | Not contested | ||
| 2021 | Hong Kong | South Korea | [20] |
| 2022 | Hong Kong | South Korea | [21] |
| 2023 | Japan | Hong Kong | |
| Team | Champion | Runner-up |
|---|---|---|
| Japan | 8 | 2 |
| Hong Kong | 5 | 7 |
| South Korea | 1 | 4 |
| Sri Lanka | – | 1 |
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