SRFC Mixed Tag Rugby Competition 2020

The Shanghai Rugby Football Club (SRFC) has confirmed it will be hosting a mixed tag rugby tournament at Huangxing Park on July 25th 2020.

SRFC Mixed Tag Rugby Competition 2020

In a Facebook post from the Shanghai Pink Dragons Women’s Rugby Team, said the “SRFC is hosting a Mixed Tag Rugby competition on Saturday 25th July from 10:30am – 1:30pm at Huangxing Park”

Interested players can sign up until July 15th 2020 and mixed tag teams will be announced on July 18th 2020. All teams will mixed gender and mixed ability teams, “so anybody beginner to a veteran is welcome” added the Chinese rugby club.

Entry fees per player are 30rmb (renminbi) and will cover the cost of pitch hire and any other additional costs. The SRFC Mixed Tag Rugby Competition 2020 will be followed by a social event. Players can sign up via QR codes and using Yeyu.

Who are the Shanghai Rugby Football Club?

In our Social Rugby Club Spotlight, we wrote that SRFC “was resurrected around 20 years ago as The Hairy Crabs and through the historian, Simon Drakeford, we discovered the original club playing rugby, as we know it, was formed sometime in 1881 playing inter-port rugby against Hong Kong and other ports in China.”

Currently, the club has become semi-professional. Adding a ladies section and changing its name to Shanghai Rugby Football Club, playing as the Silver (1st) Green (2nd) and Pink (ladies) Dragons. The name comes from the Eastern Sea Dragon of Chinese myth.

The club is a founding member at SRFA (Shanghai Rugby Football Association) which is the Shanghai Union, and participate in CRFA (China Rugby Football Association) and WR (World Rugby) development programs.

Rugby returning to Asia in 2020

With all of the ongoing rugby cancellations, it’s great to see some forms of rugby still going ahead across Asia.

This past weekend there was rugby in Vietnam with the Saigon Geckos and Hanoi Dragons competing in the first of a three-leg series between the Northern (Hanoi) AFL, Gaelic and Rugby and their Southern (Saigon) counterparts.

The Korean Rugby Union also announced games were going ahead. In Chinese Taipei (Taiwan), the Taipei Giants played a friendly game against the Taipei Baboons Rugby Club.

If your club, league or union is returning to rugby across Asia, let us know.

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