Singapore women's national rugby union team

The Singapore women's national rugby union team first played in 2006.

For the men's team, see Singapore national rugby union team. For the women's sevens team, see Singapore women's national rugby sevens team.

Singapore
UnionSingapore Rugby Union
First colours
Second colours
World Rugby ranking
Current31 (as of 23 November 2020)
First international
 Singapore 0–12 Hong Kong 
(Kunming, China 17 November 2006)
Biggest win
 Singapore 74–0 Laos 
(Manila, Philippines 14 June 2012)
Biggest defeat
 Kazakhstan 91–7 Singapore 
(Almaty, Kazakhstan 4 September 2013)

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