Английская Википедия:Global Rapid Rugby
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Global Rapid Rugby was an international rugby union competition that launched a showcase series for six professional teams in 2019, played in locations across the Asia-Pacific region.[1] Rapid Rugby matches are slightly shorter than the traditional 80 minutes and have other variations from standard rugby laws that are intended to increase the speed of the game.[1]
The 2020 Global Rapid Rugby season was cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic after only one completed round of competition.[2]
History
The competition was conceived and is supported by the Australian billionaire Andrew Forrest.[3] It was devised after the Western Force rugby team based in Perth, Western Australia was unilaterally dropped from the Australian Super Rugby Conference.[4]
Background
Following SANZAAR's decision to reduce the number of Super Rugby teams for 2018, the Australian Rugby Union (now Rugby Australia) announced in August 2017 that the Western Force would be one of the teams cut from the 2018 competition. In the following month, Perth-based businessman Andrew Forrest announced that he would create a new tournament called the Indo Pacific Rugby Championship which would include the Western Force and five other teams from the Indo-Pacific region.[5]
For the 2018 season, the competition was launched as World Series Rugby, played as a series of exhibition matches as the precursor to a wider Asia-Pacific competition planned for 2019.[6] The newly reformed Western Force played international teams from Hong Kong, Samoa, and Tonga along with Super Rugby teams the Crusaders and Melbourne Rebels, Japanese Top League team Panasonic Wild Knights, and the Fiji Warriors, the second-tier national side. The series began on 4 May 2018.[6][7][8]
Rapid Rugby launched
The competition was re-branded in November 2018 as Global Rapid Rugby,[9] and the Hong Kong Rugby Union was appointed the governing body for the competition ahead of the 2019 season.[10] A season of fourteen matches was played in 2019,[11] featuring the Western Force playing a Pacific Showcase Series in a round-robin format with teams from Fiji and Samoa, as well as an Asian Showcase Series in a round-robin format with teams based out of Hong Kong and Singapore. One-off matches were also played against a World XV coached by Robbie Deans,[12] and the Malaysia Valke.[13] The Singapore-based team, the Asia Pacific Dragons, did not continue in Rapid Rugby after the 2019 seasonШаблон:Hsp[14] and was replaced by the China Lions in 2020.[15]
Teams
Six teams compete in Rapid Rugby:Шаблон:Hsp[16]
Team | City | Stadium | Capacity | Head coach |
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Шаблон:Flagicon China Lions | Rotorua International Stadium | 34,000 | Mike Rogers | |
Шаблон:Flagicon Fijian Latui | Suva | ANZ Stadium | 15,000 | Senirusi Seruvakula |
Шаблон:Flagicon Manuma Samoa | Apia | Apia Park Stadium | 12,000 | Brian LimaШаблон:Hsp[17] |
Шаблон:Flagicon Malaysia Valke | Kuala Lumpur | Bukit Jalil National Stadium | 87,411 | Rudy Joubert |
Шаблон:Flagicon South China Tigers | Hong Kong | Hong Kong Stadium | 40,000 | Craig Hammond |
Шаблон:Flagicon Western Force | Perth | HBF Park | 20,500 | Tim Sampson |
Champions
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