The draw for the 2021 PacificAus Sports Oceania Sevens has been released, with host nation Australia, battling it out with 2016 Olympic champions Fiji in the opening match on June 25. It will be followed by World Series champions New Zealand against the Oceania Barbarians, before the women’s teams close out the opening session. Full […]...
Flying Fijians Head Coach Vern Cotter has named a mixture of experience and young players for the two test matches against the All Blacks on July the 10th and 17th in Dunedin and Hamilton respectively. Cotter said “It’s an exciting squad and a perfect opportunity for the players who have been training well and the […]...
Flying Fijians lock Api Ratuniyarawa achieved a milestone over the weekend playing 100th game for his Northampton Stains in England’s Premiership Rugby. Ratuniyarawa who has featured for Flying Fijians in the 2015 and 2019 Rugby World Cup joined the Jimmies in 2016 after spending four years with Agen Rugby Clun in France. In an interview […]...
Fiji Rugby will have heads turning on and off the field of play this year with the Pacific rugby powerhouse partnering with global sporting giant Nike as its official kit supplier. The four-year deal will see the iconic Nike Swoosh feature on the Men’s and Women’s training and playing kits for both 15’s and 7’s […]...
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.
