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The Pacific Rugby Cup comprises two representative teams each from Fiji, Samoa and Tonga – providing the best locally based players access to the rigours of week-in, week-out international rugby competition and a pathway to test honours.   The Tournament is a key element of the IRB’s unprecedented three-year global strategic investment program aimed at driving the competitiveness of the global Game and provides an opportunity for over 180 players in the Islands to be exposed to be tested in a high intensity international representative competition that importantly bridges the gap between domestic and international competition   The 2007 Pacific Rugby Cup stayed in Samoa with Upolu Samoa defeating the Tau’uta Reds of Tonga 35-15 in the final at Nuku’alofa.   The high performance value of the Pacific Rugby Cup is reflected in the number of locally-based players that went on to be selected in their respective national teams. In 2007, 48 players progressed from the Pacific Rugby Cup to the national team (Fiji 19, Samoa 14 and Tonga 15). 

2006 Champions: Savai’i Samoa
2007 Champions: Upolu Samoa

The Pacific Nations Cup is an International round-robin competition comprising the test teams of Fiji, Samoa, Tonga and Japan as well as Australia A and the New Zealand Maori – who in 2008 will replace the Junior All Blacks who contested the 2006 and 2007 tournaments.

Like the Pacific Rugby Cup, the Pacific Nations Cup is a key component of the IRB’s Strategic Investment initiative and is designed to provide the Pacific Island Nations and Japan with regular high level competition, whilst offering the next generation of Wallabies and All Blacks a stage on which they can stake their claim for Test honours.

For the Test Playing Nations in 2007 the Pacific Nations Cup was an important build-up to Rugby World Cup and there were some telling signs for what lay ahead. Japan won their first match in the two-year history of the tournament by defeating Tonga. Japan went on to record their most successful Rugby World Cup campaign. Fiji finished the tournament with a draw against Australia A in Suva before going on to their successful RWC campaign.

2006 Champions: Junior All Blacks
2007 Champions: Junior All Blacks

The FORU Oceania Cup is Oceania’s showpiece rugby event for our Development and Targeted Unions. Contested by American Samoa, Cook Islands, Niue, Tahiti, New Caledonia, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu and Wallis and Futuna – the tournament is split up into two round Robin divisions (East and West) with the winners of each Division contesting the Oceania Cup Final.