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Pacific Challenge To Start In March

Fiji will host the World Rugby Pacific Challenge on March 8-21. Four teams will take part in the round –robin competition. The Fijian Warriors will be joined by Tonga A,
03 Feb 2016 10:36
Pacific Challenge To Start In March
World Rugby Pacific Challenge

Fiji will host the World Rugby Pacific Challenge on March 8-21.

Four teams will take part in the round –robin competition.

The Fijian Warriors will be joined by Tonga A, Samoa A and Junior Japan.

The tournament will be played at the ANZ Stadium in Suva, with match days on March 8, 12 and 17 with the final on March 21.

World Rugby chairman Bernard Lapasset said: “The Pacific Challenge is a key developmental tournament, which creates a quality competition pathway for our high performance investment unions.

“The Pacific Challenge helps local and academy players get beneficial game time, exposure to a high performance tournament environment and potentially attract the attention of the national team coaches.”

 

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