As we wind down from 2024 and prepare to embrace 2025, Fiji Rugby Union Chairman John Sanday has shared his heartfelt greetings and reflections with the rugby family in Fiji and across the globe. “2024 was a year of challenges, and while it wasn’t our very best, we have come through well. Together, we navigated […]...
BARRIE SWEETMAN It is with great sadness that we inform you of the untimely passing of one of our esteemed Life Members, Mr. Barrie Sweetman, earlier this week. Barrie, who celebrated his 90th birthday in September, was a key figure in the history of Fiji Rugby. Born in Epsom, Auckland, Barrie moved to Fiji in […]...
The Fiji Rugby Union is pleased to announce our schedule of events for the year 2025 for rugby in Fiji. Fiji Rugby Union is targeting to grow the game strategically to ensure sustainability on a long-term basis. Having said that, there are short- and medium-term target outcomes that we are looking to pursue immediately to […]...
The Fiji national rugby union team is a member of the Pacific Islands Rugby Alliance (PIRA) formerly along with Samoa and Tonga. In 2009, Samoa announced their departure from the Pacific Islands Rugby Alliance, leaving just Fiji and Tonga. Fiji are ranked tenth in the world by the IRB as of 16 June 2014.
Despite the relatively small size of their represented country, in the 2007 Rugby World Cup Fiji defeated Wales 38–34 to claim a quarter final spot (theoretically placing them in the top 8 teams in the world) and proceeded to give eventual winners South Africa a scare eventually going down 37–20.
