{"id":40500,"date":"2022-04-06T10:11:27","date_gmt":"2022-04-05T22:11:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rugbyredefined.com\/wp\/?p=40500"},"modified":"2022-04-06T10:11:27","modified_gmt":"2022-04-05T22:11:27","slug":"asia-rugby-kicks-off-2022-season-with-phuket-sevens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rugbyredefined.com\/wp\/latest-news\/2022\/04\/asia-rugby-kicks-off-2022-season-with-phuket-sevens\/","title":{"rendered":"Asia Rugby kicks off 2022 season with Phuket Sevens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"40501\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/rugbyredefined.com\/wp\/latest-news\/2022\/04\/asia-rugby-kicks-off-2022-season-with-phuket-sevens\/attachment\/277801448_10166272563585010_4273838261973315591_n\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rugbyredefined.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/277801448_10166272563585010_4273838261973315591_n.jpg?fit=526%2C526&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"526,526\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"277801448_10166272563585010_4273838261973315591_n\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rugbyredefined.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/277801448_10166272563585010_4273838261973315591_n.jpg?fit=526%2C526&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-40501\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rugbyredefined.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/277801448_10166272563585010_4273838261973315591_n.jpg?resize=350%2C350&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rugbyredefined.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/277801448_10166272563585010_4273838261973315591_n.jpg?w=526&amp;ssl=1 526w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rugbyredefined.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/277801448_10166272563585010_4273838261973315591_n.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rugbyredefined.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/277801448_10166272563585010_4273838261973315591_n.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Asia Rugby will kick off the 2022 season with the Asia Rugby Sevens Men\u2019s Trophy (ARST) 2021 (playing in 2022)\u00a0at Surakul Stadium in Phuket, Thailand\u200e.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The tournament hosted by the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.asiarugby.com\/unions\/thailand\/\">Thailand Rugby Union<\/a>\u00a0on 9th and 10<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0April will allow teams to return to play in a very important and exciting current year for Sevens Rugby, which will witness teams competing in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hangzhou2022.cn\/En\/\">Asian Games<\/a>\u00a0and the Asian Youth Games both to be held in Hangzhou and Shantou respectively,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.birmingham2022.com\/\">Commonwealth Games<\/a>\u00a0in Birmingham and the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rwcsevens.com\/\">Rugby World Cup Sevens<\/a>\u00a0in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Concurrently with the ARST, Thailand Rugby Union will also be hosting the invitational Rugby Sevens Tournament for Women, an Asia Rugby sanctioned event.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-8220 size-woocommerce_single entered lazyloaded\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.asiarugby.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/01-Kazakhstan-vs-Thailand-W-4-600x382.jpg?resize=600%2C382&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Asia Rugby Sevens Men\u2019s Trophy (ARST) 2021 (playing in 2022)\" width=\"600\" height=\"382\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.asiarugby.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/01-Kazakhstan-vs-Thailand-W-4-600x382.jpg?ssl=1\" data-ll-status=\"loaded\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Asia Rugby will continue to implement its successful \u2018Return to Play\u2019 strategy that got underway in 2021 which included the very successful\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.asiarugby.com\/2021\/11\/16\/dialog-asia-rugby-sevens-series-2021-2\/\">Dialog Asia Rugby Sevens series 2021<\/a>\u00a0played in Dubai that has featured the 8 top men and women teams with South Korea and Hong Kong men teams together with China and Japan women teams qualifying for the Rugby\u200e World Cup Sevens 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Related Article:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.asiarugby.com\/2021\/11\/21\/sevens-2022-in-south-africa\/\">Four Asian teams book their berths at Rugby World Cup Sevens 2022 in Cape Town<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-8356 size-woocommerce_single entered lazyloaded\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.asiarugby.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/RWC7s-Q-Asia-7s-600x300.jpg?resize=600%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.asiarugby.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/RWC7s-Q-Asia-7s-600x300.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.asiarugby.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/RWC7s-Q-Asia-7s-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.asiarugby.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/RWC7s-Q-Asia-7s-1024x512.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.asiarugby.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/RWC7s-Q-Asia-7s-768x384.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.asiarugby.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/RWC7s-Q-Asia-7s-360x180.jpg 360w, https:\/\/www.asiarugby.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/RWC7s-Q-Asia-7s-128x64.jpg 128w, https:\/\/www.asiarugby.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/RWC7s-Q-Asia-7s-32x16.jpg 32w, https:\/\/www.asiarugby.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/RWC7s-Q-Asia-7s.jpg 1200w\" alt=\"Rugby World 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The tournament hosted by the\u00a0Thailand Rugby Union\u00a0on 9th and 10th\u00a0April will allow teams to return to play in a very important and exciting current year for Sevens Rugby, which will&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40501,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Asia Rugby kicks off 2022 season with Phuket Sevens https:\/\/wp.me\/p9yf19-axe Asia Rugby kicks off 2022 season with Phuket Sevens Asia Rugby will kick off the 2022 season with the Asia Rugby Sevens Men\u2019s Trophy (ARST) 2021 (playing in 2022)\u00a0at Surakul Stadium in Phuket, Thailand\u200e.","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4932],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rugbyredefined.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/277801448_10166272563585010_4273838261973315591_n.jpg?fit=526%2C526&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9yf19-axe","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":37310,"url":"https:\/\/rugbyredefined.com\/wp\/african-rugby\/2019\/05\/africa-men-and-womens-sevens-xxxii-olympiad-tokyo-2020\/","url_meta":{"origin":40500,"position":0},"title":"Africa Men and Women\u2019s Sevens &#8211; XXXII Olympiad, Tokyo 2020","author":"rr_admin","date":"May 25, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Africa Men and Women\u2019s Sevens, the two tournaments serving as qualification events for the Games of the XXXII Olympiad, Tokyo 2020 CAPE TOWN, South Africa, May 24, 2019 The Tunisian and South African rugby federations will host the Africa Women's Sevens and Africa Men's Sevens tournaments, respectively, which will serve\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;African Rugby&quot;","block_context":{"text":"African Rugby","link":"https:\/\/rugbyredefined.com\/wp\/category\/african-rugby\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rugbyredefined.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Ghana-Eagles-lifts-2018-Rugby-Africa-Bronze-Cup-1.jpeg?fit=1080%2C720&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rugbyredefined.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Ghana-Eagles-lifts-2018-Rugby-Africa-Bronze-Cup-1.jpeg?fit=1080%2C720&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rugbyredefined.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Ghana-Eagles-lifts-2018-Rugby-Africa-Bronze-Cup-1.jpeg?fit=1080%2C720&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rugbyredefined.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Ghana-Eagles-lifts-2018-Rugby-Africa-Bronze-Cup-1.jpeg?fit=1080%2C720&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rugbyredefined.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Ghana-Eagles-lifts-2018-Rugby-Africa-Bronze-Cup-1.jpeg?fit=1080%2C720&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":39129,"url":"https:\/\/rugbyredefined.com\/wp\/hsbc-sevens-world-series\/2020\/02\/hsbc-world-rugby-sevens-challenger-series-2020-vina-del-mar\/","url_meta":{"origin":40500,"position":1},"title":"HSBC World Rugby Sevens Challenger Series 2020 \u2013 Vi\u00f1a del Mar","author":"rr_admin","date":"February 14, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"SEVENS CHALLENGER SERIES Challenger Series Rounds and Events The World Rugby Sevens Challenger Series, a new and exciting international rugby sevens competition, will be launched in February 2020 to boost rugby sevens\u2019 development across the globe. 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