Asia Rugby all set to Kick off the inaugural Asia Rugby Western Clubs Champions League
Asia Rugby is delighted to announce an exciting new development for the Men’s 15s club game in the region, with the inaugural Asia Rugby Western Clubs Champions League set to take place in September 2015 featuring four champion clubs from their most recent respective Cross Border or Domestic Competitions in the UAE-Gulf, Sri Lanka and Kazakhstan:
Abu Dhabi Saracens RFC: Asia Rugby West 2014-15 Cup Champion
Doha RFC: Asia Rugby West 2015 Gulf Top 6 Champion
Kandy RFC: Sri Lanka Dialog Rugby League 2014/15 Champion
Olymp RFC: Kazakhstan National League 2014 Champion
The 4 clubs will play against each other for the right to call themselves for the following year the Champion Rugby Club in Western Asia.
The fixtures are as follows:
September 2015
Fri 11th Doha v Abu Dhabi Saracens in Doha
Sat 12th Kandy v Olymp in Dubai
Tue 15th Abu Dhabi Saracens v Kandy in Abu Dhabi,Doha v Olymp in Doha
In Dubai:
Fri 18th Abu Dhabi Saracens v Olymp
Kandy v Doha;
Followed by Asia Rugby’s Official Trophy Presentation + Tournament Dinner
Asia Rugby President, Trevor Gregory Commented
I am delighted that we have been able to bring about the inaugural Asia Rugby Western Clubs Champions League. This initiative has been brought about by the commitment of our member unions in Sri Lanka, Kazakhstan, the UAE and Qatar, which have quality Cross Border or Domestic Men’s 15s Club Competitions. I am also extremely grateful to the 4 clubs for committing to this project in its first year; not least financially. Asia Rugby sees this new, annual competition as the bridge between senior domestic and international representative Rugby and hopes that it will provide further incentive for all clubs in the region to win their respective competitions each year, to have the chance to compete for this prestigious new title. Asia Rugby also hopes that this will provide a new opportunity for clubs to further engage new players, supporters, volunteers and sponsors, as well as providing new opportunities for Asia’s Match Officials.
Over the coming years, Asia Rugby hopes to develop this competition further to embrace more clubs and be replicated by an equivalent competition in the Eastern half of Asia; ultimately so that we can have a play off between the Western and Eastern winners for the right to call themselves Asia Rugby Club Champion (outside of the Japan Top League).
