A good start to the Australian tour as Fiji Airways Fijiana edge out Queensland Reds 29-10 in their first match at Ballymore last weekend. Fijiana hit the score board first as they kept possession and continue to drive forward before flanker Lavenia Tinai cross the score line and gave them a 5-0 lead. Tinai scored […]...
Fiji Rugby Union received 4 awards at the 2020 Fiji Sports Awards held at the Vodafone Arena, Suva. The awards included the team of the year awarded to Fijian 7s, best sportsmen of the year which went to Jerry Tuwai, best organisation of the year and coach of the year which was awarded to Gareth […]...
World Rugby Statement World Rugby, the Hong Kong Rugby Union and Sport Singapore have taken the decision to reschedule the Hong Kong and Singapore rounds of the HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series 2020 in response to continued health concerns relating to the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak.The health and safety of our players, fans and everyone […]...
Fiji National Sports Commission through Fiji Rugby Union Development Unit held a 4-day Training of Trainer program for Match Officiating and Coaching level 1 at Kase village, Naviti Yasawa. 8 coaching participants and 7 match officials benefited from the 4-day program. The main drive behind this programme is to encourage youths and adults around this […]...
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.
