2023 Rugby World Cup – Asia qualification

Qualifying for the 2023 Rugby World Cup for Asia was scheduled to begin in May 2021, where the three leading teams in Asia (excluding Japan) would compete against each other in a single round-robin tournament to determine who would advance to a Asia/Pacific play-off series to earn the right to qualify for Rugby World Cup 2023.[1][2]

2023 Rugby World Cup – Asia qualification
Tournament details
Dates27 May 2022 – 4 June 2022
No. of nations3
Tournament statistics
Matches played3
← 2019
2027 →

Format

The Asia Rugby Championship, governed by Asia Rugby, is the regional qualification tournament for Rugby World Cup 2023, with only the leading Asian Championship league acting as the process. Three team will compete against each other home and away, with the winner at the end of the round-robin tournament advancing to a Asia/Pacific play-off series against the winner of Oceania Round 3, Tonga (Oceania 2).

Entrants

Three teams will compete during for the Asian qualifiers for the 2023 Rugby World Cup, with Japan the only team thus far qualified from the Region.

NationRankBegan playQualifying status
 Hong Kong228/9 July 2022
 Japan10N/AQualified with Top 12 finish at 2019 World Cup
 Malaysia49May 2022
 South Korea31May 2022

Round 1: 2022 Asia Rugby Championship

Due to health concerns related to the COVID-19 pandemic, Asia Rugby has postponed all competitions scheduled from 1 March 2020 to 30 June 2020.[3][4]

Originally, the three teams were due to play each other in a round-robin format home and away, however following the postponement of the originally scheduled competition, the new schedule meant the teams would only play each other once, all to be played in one venue.[5] In July 2021, the competition was pushed back to January 2022 and was then later pushed back again to May 2022 and to be held in South Korea.

First leg
4 June 2022[6]
South Korea  v  Malaysia

Second leg
8/9 July 2022[6]
South Korea  /  Malaysia v  Hong Kong

References
  1. "Qualifiers". World Rugby. Retrieved 2021-03-28.
  2. "Asia Rugby Competitions 2021". Asia Rugby. 19 May 2021. Retrieved 19 May 2021.
  3. "Asia Rugby puts player welfare first, postpones tournaments schedule until end of June 2020". Retrieved 7 March 2020.
  4. "Asia Rugby Announces 2021 Competitions Calendar". Retrieved 16 December 2020.
  5. "Calendar 2021". Asia Rugby. Retrieved 3 June 2021.
  6. https://www.asiarugby.com/2022/04/29/rugby-world-cup-2023/
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