The Vodafone Fijian Under-20 team will beef up its preparation ahead of the Oceania Championship in Gold Coast, Australia later this month. The Vodafone Fijian Under-20 team will beef up its preparation ahead of the Oceania Championship in Gold Coast, Australia next month. Elite Pathways Manager, Bill Gadolo says the players have shown a vast […]...
World Rugby officials who are in the country to assess the Pacific Combine are impressed with the level of engagement shown by the players from the three Pacific Nations Samoa, Tonga and Fiji. Former NSW Waratahs coach Chris Hickey who’s guiding the Combine group emphasized that the Pacific boys really show their commitment towards the […]...
The Oceania Rugby U20 Championship takes place at Bond University on Australia’s Gold Coast over three rounds next month from April 26 to 4 May 2019 and will feature the Junior Wallabies, New Zealand U20, Japan U20 and Fiji U20 teams. “The Oceania Rugby U20s Championship serves to provide our premier U20s teams in the […]...
14 players from the Swire Shipping Fiji Warriors side have been selected in the 26-member Pacific Combine team. After a successful campaign by Fiji Warriors in retaining the World Rugby Pacific Cup, the Fijian players dominate the Pacific Combine team which also includes seven players from Samoa A and four from Tonga A. Eroni Mawi, […]...
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.
