https://www.scmp.com/rss/513899/feed The Cathay Pacific/HSBC Hong Kong Sevens is one of the biggest sporting events in Hong Kong and the premier tournament on the World Rugby Sevens Series calendar. Taking place at Hong Kong Stadium, it features the world’s best teams compete for the coveted title. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Hong Kong coaches have identified what their teams need to do in the months to come before the city hosts the National Games in November. The city’s men’s team retained the Melrose Claymores trophy with an emphatic 38-5 win over China, while their women’s counterparts blew Kazakhstan away in a 45-5 win, playing most of the final with a numerical advantage. Hong Kong Sevens debutant Sabay Lynam was again the star with another two tries, making her the team’s top scorer with five from three... https://www.scmp.com/sport/hong-kong/article/3304475/hong-kong-coaches-lay-out-years-plans-after-teams-clinch-melrose-claymores-double?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/sport/hong-kong/article/3304475/hong-kong-coaches-lay-out-years-plans-after-teams-clinch-melrose-claymores-double?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 30 Mar 2025 12:30:17 +0000 New Zealand’s Jazmin Felix-Hotham was no stranger to playing in the Hong Kong Sevens but this year is a special one for her. Playing at the new Kai Tak Stadium was only one of the reasons: the trip to the city also reunited her with her father, Nigel Hotham, who moved to Hong Kong last summer. A renowned rugby coach back home, Hotham Snr accepted a role with local Premiership outfit USRC Tigers and decided to embrace “a change of my lifestyle” with his wife Dianne, after spending the past three... https://www.scmp.com/sport/hong-kong/article/3304421/hong-kong-sevens-new-zealand-star-has-extra-special-reason-enjoy-tournament-year?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/sport/hong-kong/article/3304421/hong-kong-sevens-new-zealand-star-has-extra-special-reason-enjoy-tournament-year?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 30 Mar 2025 01:30:15 +0000 Australia star Maddison Levi has hailed the contribution that the Cathay/HSBC Hong Kong Sevens has helped to make in giving women opportunities to play high-profile matches in front of thousands of spectators. Levi became Australia’s highest career try-scorer on Friday at the age of just 22 when she crossed four times against Canada, following a hat-trick against Spain, to take her total to 189. She added two more on Saturday. Having surpassed the previous record of 186 held by her idol,... https://www.scmp.com/sport/hong-kong/article/3304406/australian-record-breaker-maddison-levi-thanks-hong-kong-sevens-giving-women-stage?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/sport/hong-kong/article/3304406/australian-record-breaker-maddison-levi-thanks-hong-kong-sevens-giving-women-stage?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 30 Mar 2025 00:30:13 +0000 China’s women’s team have come to the Cathay/HSBC Hong Kong Sevens to beat the United States, the side’s coach has revealed. Fan Shun-kei, technical coach with the mainland China squad, said on Friday he was “100 per cent confident” his side would retain their place in the HSBC SVNS Series and had targeted a win over the US along the way. In the SVNS Series, the bottom four teams at the end of the season compete in relegation play-offs at the Grand Final in Los Angeles. The top eight in the... https://www.scmp.com/sport/china/article/3304366/hong-kong-sevens-china-target-win-over-usa-aid-svns-series-survival-hopes?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/sport/china/article/3304366/hong-kong-sevens-china-target-win-over-usa-aid-svns-series-survival-hopes?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 29 Mar 2025 01:00:19 +0000 The 2025 Cathay/HSBC Hong Kong Sevens continues on Saturday March 29 at the new Kai Tak Stadium. As fans adjust to the tournament’s move across the harbour to Kowloon, the Post takes you through all you need to know. Hong Kong Sevens tickets As of Friday evening, three-day passes remained available from the event’s official ticketing platform for HK$1,950 (US$250) per adult or HK$950 per child (ages 3-12) plus fees. All corporate hospitality suites and corporate boxes have been sold. How to... https://www.scmp.com/sport/rugby/hk-sevens/article/3304362/hong-kong-sevens-2025-guide-day-2-tickets-schedule-how-get-there-saturday?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/sport/rugby/hk-sevens/article/3304362/hong-kong-sevens-2025-guide-day-2-tickets-schedule-how-get-there-saturday?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 28 Mar 2025 23:30:08 +0000 The captain of France’s 2024 Olympic champion heroes, Paulin Riva, has targeted Cathay/HSBC Hong Kong Sevens glory to complete a glittering treble of titles. Inspired by Antoine Dupont, France won last year’s HSBC SVNS Series championship, before striking gold in the Paris Games. Minus Dupont, the French were narrowly beaten by New Zealand in the Hong Kong final 12 months ago. Since their seismic summer, Benoit Baby has replaced Jerome Daret as head coach, while Dupont and Aaron Grandidier, who... https://www.scmp.com/sport/rugby/hong-kong-rugby-union/article/3303996/hong-kong-sevens-france-eye-first-title-and-why-australia-are-banking-chinese-proverb?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/sport/rugby/hong-kong-rugby-union/article/3303996/hong-kong-sevens-france-eye-first-title-and-why-australia-are-banking-chinese-proverb?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 26 Mar 2025 11:00:21 +0000 In more than a quarter of a century of working at the Hong Kong Sevens, one man has seen it all, from New Zealand’s memorable 2014 victory haka in torrential rain to the Beach Boys playing live. Having travelled from the United States in 1997 to watch for the first time, Sean Moore fell in love with the event and the city. A year later he began working at the Sevens and now runs the tournament’s marketing, as managing director of Elite Sports Asia. No one, then, is better placed to lift the lid... https://www.scmp.com/sport/hong-kong/article/3257960/behind-scenes-hong-kong-sevens-insider-tells-bear-hugs-crying-fijians-and-lost-wheelchair?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/sport/hong-kong/article/3257960/behind-scenes-hong-kong-sevens-insider-tells-bear-hugs-crying-fijians-and-lost-wheelchair?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 06 Apr 2024 00:00:18 +0000 Harry McNulty was still coated in sweat and recovering his breath following Ireland’s defeat by South Africa on Friday, but the captain of rugby sevens’ coming force effortlessly flipped his mind back to the country’s humble beginnings in the sport. Ireland, who finished day one of the Cathay/HSBC Hong Kong Sevens nicely poised, after beating Samoa in their second match, were late to the sevens party, establishing a full-time programme only in May 2015. They began in Rugby Europe Division C,... https://www.scmp.com/sport/rugby/hk-sevens/article/3257988/hong-kong-sevens-rising-force-ireland-say-our-grit-comes-having-point-prove-make-hosts-rue-sliding?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/sport/rugby/hk-sevens/article/3257988/hong-kong-sevens-rising-force-ireland-say-our-grit-comes-having-point-prove-make-hosts-rue-sliding?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 05 Apr 2024 11:30:14 +0000 Were it not for an intransigent college teacher, and the wanderlust of English rugby chiefs, Bob Lloyd would never have moved to Hong Kong. More than 50 years later, the former England centre is woven into the city’s fabric. Not that you can take all of his country of origin out of the boy. At Hong Kong Football Club (HKFC), where he is revisiting memories of captaining the city’s team at the same venue in the inaugural Hong Kong Sevens in 1976, Lloyd orders an English breakfast tea. Leading... https://www.scmp.com/sport/rugby/hk-sevens/article/3257860/hong-kong-sevens-it-was-amateurish-fun-says-ex-england-star-bob-lloyd-1976s-first-edition-when-he?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/sport/rugby/hk-sevens/article/3257860/hong-kong-sevens-it-was-amateurish-fun-says-ex-england-star-bob-lloyd-1976s-first-edition-when-he?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 05 Apr 2024 04:00:23 +0000 Bryan Habana says former Wallabies captain Michael Hooper boasts all the raw attributes to successfully cross from Test rugby to the unforgiving sevens code. Hooper, who was controversially omitted from Australia’s squad for the 2023 Rugby World Cup, is poised to begin his sevens foray at this week’s Cathay/HSBC Hong Kong Sevens. The 32-year-old’s wider objective is selection for his country’s Olympic Games campaign in July. His switch mirrors the late-career transition of Habana, a World Cup... https://www.scmp.com/sport/rugby/hk-sevens/article/3257679/hong-kong-sevens-habana-backing-fellow-international-legend-hooper-thrive-among-phenomenal-sevens?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/sport/rugby/hk-sevens/article/3257679/hong-kong-sevens-habana-backing-fellow-international-legend-hooper-thrive-among-phenomenal-sevens?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 03 Apr 2024 09:30:12 +0000 James Sawyer is confident of thriving amid the fanfare of the Cathay/HSBC Hong Kong Sevens, after surviving a “brutal” transition from the 15s code to earn his tournament debut. Sawyer’s first experience of the event came in 2017, around six months after moving to Hong Kong, when he “was floating around the South Stand, dressed as a Viking”. His parents will have the bonus of seeing their son in action when they join the party this year, after booking to travel from the UK before Christmas, when... https://www.scmp.com/sport/rugby/hk-sevens/article/3257468/hong-kong-sevens-2024-james-sawyer-ready-heat-battle-he-swaps-south-stand-costume-tournament-debut?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/sport/rugby/hk-sevens/article/3257468/hong-kong-sevens-2024-james-sawyer-ready-heat-battle-he-swaps-south-stand-costume-tournament-debut?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 02 Apr 2024 00:00:12 +0000 Hong Kong star Cado Lee Ka-to is aiming to preserve a proud personal record and heap more misery on China at this year’s Cathay/HSBC Hong Kong Sevens. A mainstay of head coach Jevon Groves’ team, Lee has never been on the losing side against the mainland Chinese, who face Hong Kong in their opening fixture on Friday. There are conflicting views over whether Hong Kong have been dealt a rough hand in their own tournament. The hosts are in the three-team Melrose Claymores competition, also... https://www.scmp.com/sport/rugby/hk-sevens/article/3257429/hong-kong-sevens-2024-excitement-home-tournament-never-gets-old-cado-lee-says-he-takes-aim-china?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/sport/rugby/hk-sevens/article/3257429/hong-kong-sevens-2024-excitement-home-tournament-never-gets-old-cado-lee-says-he-takes-aim-china?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 01 Apr 2024 06:05:29 +0000 As everyone recovers from a thrilling 2023 Cathay/HSBC Hong Kong Sevens, the tournament organisers and the city as a whole can reflect on a job largely well done. Here are seven success stories from the weekend. 1. Finals night was epic The women’s and men’s Cup finals were memorable, largely for the excellence and intensity of New Zealand as they outgunned Australia and Fiji respectively. So too were both of the bronze finals, and Hong Kong men’s emphatic victory over Canada to win the... https://www.scmp.com/sport/rugby/hk-sevens/article/3216075/hong-kong-sevens-7-successes-2023-showpiece-returned-normal?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/sport/rugby/hk-sevens/article/3216075/hong-kong-sevens-7-successes-2023-showpiece-returned-normal?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 05 Apr 2023 08:30:11 +0000