The Japanese-hosted Sanix World Rugby Youth Tournament 2024 has been confirmed to take place from April 28th – May 5th 2024 at the Global Arena (Fukuoka City). This will be the 25th edition of the tournament to take place.
Updated 21 April 2024
At a press conference held on March 17th, 2024 some details for the annual international rugby youth tournament were announced – the focus of the tournament is high school youths and in the past, players have gone on to represent national teams at Rugby World Cups.
Former internationals to have played at the SANIX tournament are; Johnny Sexton (Ireland), Ben Gunter (Japan) and Amato Fakatava (Japan), Manie Libbok & Damian Willemse (South Africa), Finlay Christie (NZ), with the organisers indicting national team players from Australia, Uruguay, Fiji and Tonga have all played in the past.
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Photo Credit: SANIX World Rugby Youth Tournament Press Conference
Between 2020-2021, the SANIX Youth tournaments were cancelled due to the pandemic, and only domestic Japanese teams participated in the 2022 tournament.
The 2024 tournament also confirmed it would be working with social media influencer Ayaka Shinya as a tournament ambassador to try and broaden its audience.
For the fans, a premium lounge and rugby salon will be set up for spectators with a World Gourmet Fair offering food.
SANIX World Rugby Youth Tournament 2024 Teams
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In addition to the 16 Boys and 8 Girls team tournaments playing in 2024, a ‘World XV Friendly Match” will be played with selected players from the participating teams selected to be involved before the Boys final on May 5th 2024.
The youth teams confirmed to compete in Japan come from a number of nations, including; Japan, Australia, Chinese Taipei, South Korea, England, Namibia, New Zealand, USA, and Fiji.
Some of the domestic Japanese participating teams are still to be determined based on the 103rd National High School Rugby Tournament, the 25th National High School Rugby Tournament, and a team recommended by the Kyushu Association for the boys. Japanese Girls’ teams seem to be based on nominations from local associations.
Boys Teams – SANIX 2024
There will be 8 international and 8 Japanese High School teams playing the Boys division at the SANIX World Rugby Youth Tournament.
- St Augustine’s College (Australia)
- Jianguo High School (Chinese Taipei)
- Truro College (England)
- Mahatma Gandhi Memorial High School (Fiji)
- Chunbuk High School (South Korea)
- Windhoek Gymnasium (Namibia)
- Southland Boys’ High School (New Zealand)
- Jesuit High School (USA)
- Kokugakuin University Tochigi High School (Tochigi)
- Toin Gakuen High School (Kanagawa)
- Tokai University Sagami High School (Kanagawa)
- Osaka Toin High School (Osaka)
- Gose Industrial High School (Nara)
- Iwamichisuikan High School (Shimane)
- Oita Tomei High School (Oita)
- (There are only 7 listed on the latest JRFU PR)
Girls Teams – SANIX 2024
Eight Girls teams will be involved in 2024, four from overseas and four from Japan, with the competition days being April 28th and 29th.
- Barker College (Australia)
- SGS College Bristol (England)
- Manukura (New Zealand)
- Raja Praja Nugro 66 (Thailand)
- Fukuoka Ladies Rugby Football Club (Fukuoka, Japan)
- Reitaku High School (Chiba)
- Kanto Gakuin Mutsuura High School (Kanagawa)
- Kyoto Seisho High School (Kyoto)
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