Singapore women's national rugby union team

Singapore

Union	Singapore Rugby Union
Team kit Change kit
First international
Singapore 0–12 Hong Kong  (Kunming, China 17 November 2006)
Largest win
Singapore 74–0 Laos  (Manila, Philippines 14 June 2012)
Largest defeat
Hong Kong 53–8 Singapore  (Hong Kong 21 May 2011)

The Singapore women's national rugby union team are a national sporting side of Singapore, representing them at rugby union. The side first played in 2006.

History

The history of women's rugby in Singapore has been a short one. The game was introduced by the Singapore Rugby Union through the men's clubs in 1996. The first Singapore women's national 7s team was formed in 1997 and they represented the republic at the Hong Kong International Women's 7s and the inaugural Asian Women's 7s in the same year.

Since then, the Singapore women's national 7s team has grown from strength to strength. One of their significant wins includes becoming plate winners in the Hong Kong International Women's 7s in 2003. Within Asia, the team achieved it highest ranking in 2004, when it became 2nd in Asia behind Kazakhstan in the Asian Rugby Football Union's Asian Women's Championship 7s held in Almaty. The team retained their top three placing the next year when the Asian Women's Championship 7s was hosted in Singapore.

As an indication of the growth of the game in the region, women's rugby was included for the first time in the South East Asian Games 2007 in Korat, Thailand and the Singapore Women's 7s team took the silver medal ahead of Cambodia and Laos.

With the help of the Singapore Rugby Union, the game in the 15s format was introduced to the clubs in 2005 and the first Singapore women's 15s league was established in 2006.

The first Singapore national women's 15s team was formed that year and took part in A.R.F.U.'s Women's Championship 15s in Kunming. Although losing their first four test matches over 2006 and 2007, the team was not to be denied their first win for long. The Singapore Women's National 15s team registered their first victory at the 2008 Asian Women's Championship 15s in Taraz, Kazakhstan when they beat Kyrgyzstan 38–0. The Singapore Women narrowly lost a place in the finals to Japan.

In 2009 Singapore hosted the Asian World Cup qualification tournament.

Results summary

(Full internationals only)

Rugby: Singapore internationals 2006–

Opponent	First game	Played	Won	Drawn	Lost	Percentage
China	2007	1	0	0	1	0.00%
Hong Kong	2006	11	1	1	9	13.64%
Japan	2007	4	0	0	4	0.00%
Kazakhstan	2013	2	0	0	2	0.00%
Kyrgyzstan	2008	1	1	0	0	100.00%
Laos	2012	1	1	0	0	100.00%
Malaysia	2009	1	1	0	0	100.00%
Thailand	2006	2	1	0	1	50.00%
Uzbekistan	2008	1	0	0	1	0.00%
Summary 2006–		24	5	1	18	22.92%

Results

See Women's international rugby for information about the status of international games and match numbering

Full internationals

[593]
	17 November 2006 (AC)	Hong Kong	12–0	Singapore	Kunming	[6/1/1]

[595]
	19 November 2006 (AC)	Thailand	20–0	Singapore	Kunming	[4/2/1]

[648]
	2 November 2007 (AC)	China	39–6	Singapore	Kunming	[3/3/1]

[650]
	4 November 2007 (AC)	Japan	20–7	Singapore	Kunming	[21/4/1]

[704]
	3 June 2008 (AC)	Kyrgyzstan	0–38	Singapore	Taldykorgan, Kazakhstan	[1/5/1]

[707]
	5 June 2008 (AC)	Japan	17–10	Singapore	Taldykorgan, Kazakhstan	[22/6/2]

[709]
	7 June 2008 (AC)	Singapore	0–15	Uzbekistan	Taldykorgan, Kazakhstan	[7/2/1]

[720]
	4 December 2008	Singapore	10–10	Hong Kong	St Andrew's School, Singapore	[8/10/2]

[721]
	5 December 2008	Singapore	0–5	Hong Kong	Yio Chu Kang Stadium, Singapore	[9/11/3]

[770]
	3 October 2009	Singapore	63–0	Malaysia	Yio Chu Kang Stadium, Singapore	[10/1/1]

[771]
	10 October 2009	Hong Kong	22–17	Singapore	Hong Kong	[12/11/4]

[773]
	4 November 2009 (WCQ)	Singapore	11–35	Japan	Republic Polytechnic, Singapore	[10/24/3]

[775]
	6 November 2009 (WCQ)	Singapore	3–16	Hong Kong	Padang, Singapore	[11/14/5]

[890]
	21 May 2011	Hong Kong	53–8	Singapore	Hong Kong	[18/14/6]

[948]
	14 June 2012 (AC)	Laos	0–74	Singapore	Manila, Philippines	[4/15/1]

[951]
	16 June 2012 (AC)	Singapore	21–19	Thailand	Manila, Philippines	[16/9/2]

[966]
	12 December 2012	Singapore	21–45	Hong Kong	Yio Chu Kang Stadium	[17/22/7]

[967]
	15 December 2012	Singapore	17–44	Hong Kong	Yio Chu Kang Stadium	[18/23/8]

[990]
	27 April 2012	Hong Kong	29–0	Singapore	Hong Kong	[23/19/9]

[1012]
	4 September 2013 (AC)	Kazakhstan	91–7	Singapore	Almaty Central Stadium, Almaty, Kazakhstan	[54/20/1]

[1013]
	7 September 2013 (AC)	Singapore	17–15	Hong Kong	Almaty Central Stadium, Almaty, Kazakhstan	[22/23/10]

[1040]
	18 May 2014 (AC)	Japan	37–5	Singapore	Aberdeen Stadium, Aberdeen, Hong Kong	[34/22/4]

[1042]
	21 May 2014 (AC)	Kazakhstan	68–0	Singapore	Aberdeen Stadium, Aberdeen, Hong Kong	[55/23/2]

[1044]
	24 May 2014 (AC)	Hong Kong	53–5	Singapore	Aberdeen Stadium, Aberdeen, Hong Kong	[29/24/10]

[1142]
	14 May 2016	Singapore	7-40	Hong Kong	Singapore	[25/31/11]

Other matches

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	5 September 2009	Malaysian Barbarians	7–10	Singapore A	Kuala Lumpur	[-/-/-]

[-]
	17 April 2010	Singapore A	5–10	Malaysia	Yio Chu Kang	[-/-/-]

External links

• Singapore Rugby Union
• Singapore on IRB.com
• Singapore on rugbydata.com