OCEANIA RUGBY SEVENS CHAMPIONSHIPS TO RETURN TO FIJI FOR THE NEXT 3 YEARS The annual Oceania Rugby Sevens Championships will return to Fiji in 2017, 2018, 2019 with the announcement today that the Fiji Government is committing to secure the event for the next 3 years. The Hon. Laisenia Bale Tuitubou, Minister for Youth and […]...
The Classic Wallabies will travel to Fiji next week to assist community based programs in partnership with the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT). The eight Classics will be led by 16-Test flanker and Fox Sports commentator Stephen Hoiles as they host a variety of coaching clinics along the Coral Coast from Nadi […]...
With the Fiji Airways Drua maiden home match now only one day away, the Nadroga based Drua players have called on their local community to come and support the Drua by coming to the game at Lawaqa Park. Eroni Vasiteri said “We’re so excited to be playing in front of our home crowd and we […]...
The Fiji Rugby Union has today confirmed the appointment of Chris Thomson as the General Manager for the Fiji Airways Drua Franchise. FRU CEO Mr John O’Connor also confirmed that Chris Thomson’s appointment is a secondment by the Australian Rugby Union to the FRU after agreement was reached between the Fiji Rugby Union, World Rugby […]...
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.
