Rugby

On Sunday, March 3rd, two HSBC Rookie Rugby Jamborees will take place at Vancouver's Trillium Park and Delta’s John Oliver Park, offering children aged 5-12 the opportunity to try Rugby for free.  The events will take place in parallel, running from 10:00am-12:00pm and incorporate...

World Rugby has underscored its continued player welfare commitment with the appointment of Dr Éanna Falvey. He will join on 1 March in the newly created role of Deputy Chief Medical Officer, before taking over the position of Chief Medical Officer from incumbent Dr...

World Rugby Chairman Sir Bill Beaumont says that he is "honoured and humbled" after being formally knighted by Her Majesty The Queen for services to rugby at Buckingham Palace on Tuesday.Sir Bill, who was named in The Queen’s New Year’s honours list in December...

BC Rugby has confirmed a total of 8 teams from the Elite Youth Sevens Program preparing to represent the province in the Las Vegas Invitational on Feb 28 – Mar 2.  The Girls’ and Boys’ teams will depart for the tournament later today and...

The Vancouver Sevens Invitational (VSI) is set to host almost 50 teams from across Canada and the USA on March 7-8 at UBC’s Gerald McGavin Rugby Centre.  The two-day tournament, run by BC Rugby, will take place for the fourth year in a row...

BC Rugby is pleased to formally announce that the Provincial Regional Championships (PRCs) has a new home for 2019, the Gerald McGavin Rugby Centre at UBC.  Taking place over the Canada Day long weekend from June 29th to July 1st , the Championship draws in excess of 1,000...

The pools and match schedule have been announced for the HSBC Kitakyushu Sevens, 20-21 April, the fourth round of the HSBC World Rugby Women’s Sevens Series 2019.As the women’s competition passes the halfway mark, the race for the coveted world series title continues with...

Brazil close in on their best-ever position in the World Rugby Rankings after a superb comeback win against Canada in the Americas Rugby Championship, while Georgia, Spain and Belgium are all on the up, too.Brazilian rugby came within a fraction of achieving another landmark...

Canada had a strong start to the match with a penalty by Brazil setting up veteran Ciaran Hearn for the kick and adding three points on early.Hearn followed that up by with an impressive effort, weaving his way through players and powering over the...

Rugby Canada, in partnership with our 10 Provincial Unions, has launched the 2019 National Training and Education Calendar.The Calendar includes coach education courses, match official education courses, as well as First Aid in Rugby. In addition to certification courses, there are also a number...

The Webb Ellis Cup, rugby’s most coveted silverware, arrived in Heidelberg today and was welcomed by the German National Team at the National training camp.On the back of an historic second place finish at the Rugby World Cup 2019 repechage in Marseille in November,...