The Fiji Airways Fijiana 15s made it clear that their round one win was no fluke in a dominating and dictating demonstration of attacking rugby against the Palais. Fiji scored their first points of the afternoon in the 3rd minute of the match and didn’t look back. With a number of line breaking runs, the […]...
On the eve of the Oceania Rugby Women’s Championship 2018, Oceania Rugby caught up with Women’s Director Cathy Wong to talk about how the region are using rugby’s values to help more women play the game and to combat domestic violence. Oceania Rugby hopes its efforts to provide pathways that allow more women to engage […]...
The Fiji Airways Fijiana and Samoa’s Manusina kicked off the 2018 Oceania Rugby Women’s Championships today by registering impressive wins over Tonga and Papua New Guinea respectfully. A strong and vocal local crowd took the opportunity to see some international women’s matches at Churchill Park in Lautoka ahead of the weekend. MATCH ONE: PAPUA NEW […]...
New combinations will be tested as the Fiji Airways Flying Fijians seek to assert dominance over Pool D rivals Uruguay in the second test of the November Internatioal Series this Sunday in Gloucestershire, England. Head Coach John McKee has included six new names into the starting XV for Sunday’s match including the debut cap 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.
