Asia Rugby
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Formation | 1968 |
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Type | Sports federation |
Headquarters | Hong Kong |
Membership | 31 unions |
General Manager | Ross Mitchell |
Website |
asiarugby |
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 31 member unions in countries across Asia, stretching from Kazakhstan to Guam.
The aim of Asia Rugby is: "to raise physical and moral standards in Asia by education in the healthy pursuit of Rugby Football and to promote friendship among Asian countries."
Competitions
Asia Rugby supports regional and pan-Asian tournaments for men's, women's and under 19's competitions in fifteen-a-side and seven-a-side rugby, including:
- Asia Rugby Championship
- Asian Women's Rugby Championship
- Asian Sevens Series
- Asian Women's Sevens Championship
Asian Sevens Series
The Asian Sevens Series is like the HSBC World Sevens Series, but at a regional level.[1][2][3]
Members
Asia Rugby Rankings | ||||
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Top 15 Rankings as of 25 June 2018[4] | ||||
Rank | Change* | Team | Points | WR |
1 | 75.24 | 11 | ||
2 | 60.46 | 21 | ||
3 | 53.59 | 31 | ||
4 | 48.27 | 41 | ||
5 | 46.26 | 48 | ||
6 | 44.23 | 56 | ||
7 | 43.53 | 61 | ||
8 | 41.33 | 63 | ||
9 | 38.71 | 69 | ||
10 | 37.93 | 72 | ||
11 | 37.09 | 77 | ||
12 | 34.36 | 84 | ||
13 | 32.72 | 87 | ||
14 | 31.29 | 90 | ||
15 | 30.74 | 91 | ||
*Based on the World Rugby Ranking |
After the expulsion of Cambodia as of May 2016, Asia Rugby has 31 member unions.[5][6] Not all member unions are members of World Rugby.[7] Asia Rugby members are listed below, with the year each union joined World Rugby shown in brackets. World Rugby associates are shown in italics.[8]
There are 17 World Rugby members, and 5 World Rugby associates:
Brunei (2013*) †Cambodia (2004*) China (1997) Chinese Taipei (1998) Guam (1998) Hong Kong (1988) India (1999) Indonesia (2013) Iran (2010*) Japan (1987) Kazakhstan (1997) Korea (1988) Kyrgyzstan (2004*) Lao (2004*) Malaysia (1988) Mongolia (2004*) Pakistan (2008) Philippines (2008) Singapore (1989) Sri Lanka (1988) Thailand (1989) United Arab Emirates (2012) Uzbekistan (2014)
There are 9 unions not affiliated with World Rugby
Afghanistan Bangladesh Jordan Lebanon Macau Nepal Qatar Saudi Arabia Syria ‡Vietnam
Notes:
* Denotes World Rugby associate membership date.
^† Cambodia expelled in 2016 for not complying with membership criteria.[5]
The Arabian Gulf Rugby Football Union was split up in 2011. It comprised the UAE, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Oman. The new governing body for the UAE is already active and has its own national team. UAE became the 100th full member of World Rugby in November 2012.[9] The other countries have not yet joined the ARFU.
Several governing bodies which administer partially, or largely Asian countries, such as that of Armenia, Cyprus, Georgia, Israel, Russia and are members of the European body, Rugby Europe. Conversely, Kazakhstan, which is administered by European associations in other sports (such as within the football governing body, FIFA) is administered as part of Asia Rugby. In addition, Asia Rugby includes Guam (the organized unincorporated territory of the United States), which is arguably not in Asia, but in Oceania, and one transcontinental country, Indonesia.
Asia Rugby officers
- President: Agha Hussain
India - Vice President: Yuichi Ueno,
Japan - Vice President: Fawzi Khawaja,
Pakistan - Treasurer: Mike Haynes
Hong Kong - World Rugby Representative: Trevor Gregory
Hong Kong - EXCO Member + World Rugby Rep: Ada Milby
Philippines - Executive Committee:
- Natapol Hemyoo
Thailand, - Makoto Nishiki
Japan, - Asanga Seneviratne
Sri Lanka - Vela Tan
Malaysia, - Yoon Sungsoo
South Korea - Honorary President: Koji Tokumasu,
Japan
Asia Rugby
- General Manager : Ross Mitchell
- Administration Advisor : Eunice Cheng
- Competitions Consultant : Aaron Stockdale
- Regional Training Consultant : Gene Tong
- Strategic Development Advisor :Matthew Oakley
- Rugby Development Consultant GIR/A1M Coordinator : Ben Van Rooyen
- Rugby Development Consultant (WA) : Ghaith Jalajel
- Web Master : Khuram Haroon
- Match Officials Advisor : Alan Whitcombe
- Medical Coordinator : Joy Walter
See also
References
- ↑ Rugby and the Olympics Archived September 14, 2009, at the Wayback Machine.. IRB
- ↑ Asian 7s Series. ARFU.
- ↑ Promising start for Asian Sevens Series. UR7s.
- ↑ "World Rugby Rankings". Retrieved 25 June 2018.
- 1 2 "Guatemala Obtain World Rugby Membership". americas Rugby News. 14 May 2016. Archived from the original on 14 May 2016. Retrieved 14 May 2016.
- 1 2 "Unions". Asia Rugby. 2016. Archived from the original on 14 May 2016. Retrieved 14 May 2016.
- ↑ "Handbook" (PDF). World Rugby. 2014. pp. 16–10. Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 February 2015. Retrieved 28 January 2015.
- ↑ http://www.asiarugby.com/about-asia-rugby/membership
- ↑ "UAE become 100th full member of the IRB". RTÉ. 27 November 2012. Retrieved 28 November 2012.
- ↑ https://www.asiarugby.com/about-asia-rugby/asia-rugby-executive-committee/
- ↑ https://www.asiarugby.com/contact-us/