The Fiji Rugby Union revealed the 2017 Fiji National Rugby Championship (NRC) team name and kit during the official launch at the Grand Pacific Hotel in Suva today. The team will now officially be known as the Fijian Drua team and is synonymous with the Drua, a historic Fijian double canoe which was the largest […]...
Speaking on the one year anniversary of Fiji’s Olympic Gold Medal victory, FRU President and Prime Minister Bainimarama tonight announced that the FRU would be bidding for our country to host a leg of the HSBC World Sevens Series. Making that announcement at a 300 person gala dinner at the GPH Hotel, PM Bainimarama said […]...
At a gala dinner at the Grand Pacific Hotel, dubbed “The Greatest night in Fiji Rugby History dinner”, the FRU tonight marked the 1 year anniversary of Fiji’s gold medal 7’s victory at the 2016 Olympics. Attended by almost 300 people, including several of the victorious Fiji 7’s team, as well as the President of […]...
The Fiji Rugby Union has today released the extended squad for the Fiji Team to prepare for the National Rugby Championship in Australia after physical and medical tests conducted last week. The Senirusi Seruvakula coached side will march into a two day camp from Monday, 7 August till Wednesday, 9 August, to begin preparations for […]...
The Fiji national rugby union team is a member of the Pacific Islands Rugby Alliance (PIRA) formerly along with Samoa and Tonga. In 2009, Samoa announced their departure from the Pacific Islands Rugby Alliance, leaving just Fiji and Tonga. Fiji are ranked tenth in the world by the IRB as of 16 June 2014.
Despite the relatively small size of their represented country, in the 2007 Rugby World Cup Fiji defeated Wales 38–34 to claim a quarter final spot (theoretically placing them in the top 8 teams in the world) and proceeded to give eventual winners South Africa a scare eventually going down 37–20.
