2015 ARFU Men's Sevens Championships
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The 2015 ARFU Men's Sevens Championships is an Olympic qualification tournament for rugby sevens at the 2016 Summer Olympics which was held in Hong Kong on 7–8 November 2015. It was originally planned to use the 2015 Asian Sevens Series for the qualification but as the series clashed with the 2015 Rugby World Cup hosted in England, it was decided to use one qualifying tournament (with a pre-qualifying round) for Asia.
The Preliminary round was held in Chennai, India on 7–8 March 2015.
Pre-qualifying round
Pool stage
Semifinals
Third Place Match
Final
Final standing
Olympic qualifying round
Teams
China (Automatic qualifier)
Chinese Taipei (Automatic qualifier)
Hong Kong (Host Nation)
Iran (Preliminary round qualifier)
Japan (Automatic qualifier)
Kazakhstan (Automatic qualifier) (withdrawn)
Malaysia (Automatic qualifier)
Philippines (Automatic qualifier)
Singapore (Automatic qualifier)
Sri Lanka (Automatic qualifier)
South Korea (Automatic qualifier)
Thailand (Automatic qualifier) (withdrawn)
Pool stage
All match times are HKT (UTC+8).
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