Date 18 April – 23 May Matches played 6 | Champions Japan (23rd title) Tries scored 50 (8.33 per match) | |
Countries Hong Kong
Japan
South Korea Top scorer(s) Ayumu Goromaru (38)
Oh Youn-hyung (38) | ||
The 2015 Asian Rugby Championship, was the inaugural series of the newly formatted Asian rugby union tournament for the ARFU region. The Asian Rugby Championship replaced the Asian Five Nations tournament for 2015, with the main ARC only consisting of three nations as opposed the previous of five nations. The inaugural series included; Hong Kong, Japan and South Korea. Unlike the A5N, the ARC saw each of the top three nations play each other twice, on a home and away bases, with the team with the most table points at the end declared winner. While the bottom placed team, will play a promotion-relegation play-off against the winning nation from Division 1 to earn the right to compete in the following series.
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Standings
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Top 3 Challenge
Due to financial reasons, the game was cancelled and South Korea remained in the Tri-nations division for 2016.
Summary
Note: Ages, caps and domestic side are of 18 April 2015 – the starting date of the tournament.
Japan
On 5 March, head coach Eddie Jones named a 31-man squad for the 2015 Asian Rugby Championship.
On 11 April, Chihito Matsui and Ryohei Yamanaka was added to the squad.
Note: Flags indicate national union for the club/province as defined by World Rugby.