Tawa supporters cheering their team on at this year’s Jubilee Cup final. From 2015 the Jubilee Cup will remain unchanged, but there will be changes to the first round Swindale Shield competition. A new competition structure was accepted at a Wellington Club Rugby Board meeting last night, it has been confirmed this afternoon. Wellington’s Premier club rugby format is set to change for the first time in more than 20 years, and will be put in place for the 2015 season.The revised format will mark the end of promotion-relegation matches, giving all Wellington’s clubs the opportunity to enter the Swindale Shield each year, providing they fit the necessary criteria...More

The Hawke's Bay men's side defended their Central Sevens title, after beating Wellington 26-24 with the last play of the game in their semi-final and then defeating Taranaki 24-19 in the final. The Wellington’s men’s and women’s Sevens teams both missed out on making the finals of today's Central Region qualifiers in Palmerston North, but both will play in the National Sevens in Rotorua in January. Needing to finish inside the top five, the Wellington’s men’s side qualified by finishing second in their pool...More

The road to the national sevens will begin for central teams this weekend as Massey University prepares to host the Central Region Sevens Tournament, with the Wellington men’s and women’s teams both involved. Held at the University's Sport and Rugby Institute in Palmerston North, the tournament is a qualifying tournament for the National Sevens tournament to be played in Rotorua from January 11th and 12th.All eight regions from the Hurricanes catchment area have entered teams along with five women's teams...More

Kelston Boys' High School celebrate their back-to-back victory in the Condor Sevens this afternoon (photo by Condor Sevens Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/condorsevens?fref=ts ) A last minute try by Kelston Boys' High School sealed yet another national sevens victory over Scots College in Auckland this afternoon. The 19-12 victory came 30 seconds from the final match hooter which threatened to go into over time. Edge of the seat tension dominated the final since the first whistle as there was a long period of non-scoring play at Kelston's home ground...More

Above: The Pacific Warriors just prior to kick-off in their Men's Cup semi-final win over the Wellington Men's representative side. The Pacific Warriors side, comprising mostly Tawa Premier players, won today’s Piri Weepu Invitational 7s tournament hosted by the Wainuiomata Rugby Club at William Jones and Mary Crowther Parks.After a testing morning for rugby weather-wise, the angry skies and gusty winds cleared in the afternoon well in time for the Pacific Warriors to beat the Wests Roosters 45-36 in the Men’s Cup final...More

?UPDATE Friday afternoon: Please see below for the updated Pools and Draw from that previously released. They’re coming from far and wide for the last day of rugby of the year in Wellington on Saturday, the third annual Piri Weepu Invitational 7s tournament.The one-day tournament is being held in Wainuiomata, across two venues, William Jones and Mary Crowther Parks.The action kicks off at 9.00 am, with the women’s final scheduled to take place at 4.00 pm and the men’s final at 5...More

The representative sevens season starts this weekend for the Wellington men’s and women’s teams when they compete in the second annual Auckland 7s tournament at Northcote Birkenhead Rugby Club on the North Shore. The two-day men’s tournament opens on Saturday with pool play and continues on Saturday with the championship rounds. The women’s section is played all in one day on Saturday. The winner of the Open Men’s Division will receive an invitation to compete in the 2014 Noosa International 7s Festival...More

?Above: Two of the players selected in the Wellington Sevens training squad in action at Wakefield Park on Saturday, Hutt Old Boys Marist’s Tomasi Alosio (left) and MSP’s Matt Peni (right) The 23-player Wellington Men’s Sevens squad features some exciting talent, such as Scots College speedster and NZ Barbarians XVs player Malo Tuitama and four players from the Upper Hutt team that won Saturday’s American Ambassador’s Sevens at Wakefield Park.Wellington Lions halfback Kayne Hammington is joined by Upper Hutt teammates Murphy Taramai, Hayden Schrijvers?and Colin Leilua-Tuilolo?who burst through to score a hat trick of tries in the Saturday’s Cup final against Wainuiomata...More

Above: Members of the Upper Hutt Men's Sevens team, winners of the 2013 American Ambassador's Sevens Trophy? Hard work on the training field in recent times turned to fruition this evening at Wakefield Park for Upper Hutt when they were presented with the American Ambassador’s Wellington club Sevens title.Upper Hutt pulled clear in the second half to beat Wainuiomata 40-17 in the Men’s Cup final of the day-long tournament that was played in fine, cool conditions all day on the new Wakefield Park Artificial complex...More

The last official act of the Wellington club rugby season, the American Ambassador’s Club Sevens tournament (trophy pictured), is at Wakefield Park on Saturday.Most of Wellington’s top clubs have entered multiple teams in the Men’s, Colts and Women’s divisions of the one-day tournament that takes the same format as the recent WRFU Open tournament at Evans Bay Park and Monday’s College Condor Sevens tournament at Naenae College.The difference between this tournament and the Open tournament is that all players must be registered to the club that they are playing for...More