Asia Rugby Women's Championship


The Asia Rugby Championship for women's national fifteen-a-side teams is a rugby union tournament that has been contested since 2006. Organised by Asia Rugby, 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 Rugby World Cup.

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 2017 edition:

Asia Rugby Championship

Division tournaments

Notes:

Some sources suggest that the match in Tokyo was for the 2010 ARFU Division 1 XV Championship.
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)

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 Kazakhstan.

Bracket

Semi-finals
Third place
Final

2014 Asian Four Nations Championship

The 2014 tournament, hosted in Hong Kong, returned to a round robin format.

2015 Asia Rugby Championship

2016 Asia Rugby Championship

This tournament doubled as the qualification to the 2017 Women's Rugby World Cup, which is why Fiji is attending. The top two teams directly qualify to the World Cup.

2017 Asia Rugby Championship

2018 Asia Division I Championship

2019 Asia tournaments

2019 Asia Division I Championship

Semi-finals
3rd/4th place
Final

2019 playoff for promotion to the Asia Championship

Kazakhstan advanced to the 2020 Asian Women's Championship after defeating China on aggregate scores in a two-game series in which each team won a match.

2020 Asia Rugby Championship

The 2020 Asia women's championship the final stage of 2021 Rugby World Cup qualifying for the Asia region. Three women's national teams scheduled to compete in the single round-robin tournament. Japan and Hong Kong, the two teams from the 2017 championship, joined by Kazakhstan as the winner of the 2019 promotion playoff. The 2020 tournament, with the winner direct entry to the 2021 World Cup, was originally moved from March to May due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but has since been postponed indefinitely.