- Source: South China Tigers
The South China Tigers is a professional rugby union team from Hong Kong that plays in the Global Rapid Rugby competition.
The team was launched in 2018 to participate in the inaugural Global Rapid Rugby season.
For the naming of the team, South China tigers are considered as the most distinctive of all tiger subspecies. The population once numbered more than 4,000 in the wild, distributed from Hunan, Jiangxi in the north to as far south as Hong Kong.
History
The inaugural Global Rapid Rugby season was played as a showcase series in 2019, with the South China Tigers playing four matches in the Asia Showcase. In the first Rapid Rugby match, Glyn Hughes scored the Tigers' first try in the ninth minute against the Western Force in Perth on 29 March 2019. The team secured their first Rapid Rugby victory a month later in a home match against the Asia Pacific Dragons, winning 29–19 at the Aberdeen Sports Ground.
Players and personnel
= Squad
=The squad for the 2020 season includes:
= Staff
=Appointments for the 2019 season:
Records
= Season standings
=Global Rapid Rugby
Notes:
See also
Rugby union in Hong Kong
Hong Kong national rugby union team
References
External links
Official website
HKRU website
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Harimau
- William D. Pawley
- Beijing
- Asia
- Asia Television
- Guo Ailun
- Grain in Ear
- Addison Richards
- Cha Eun-woo
- Kepunahan fungsional
- South China tiger
- South China Tigers
- Siberian tiger
- Save China's Tigers
- South China
- Tiger
- Indochinese tiger
- South China (disambiguation)
- Laohu Valley Reserve
- Tiger conservation
