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2017 World Rugby Pacific Challenge

2017 World Rugby Pacific Challenge
Countries Fiji (1 team)
Japan (1 team)
Samoa (1 team)
Tonga (1 team)
Date 10–18 March 2017
Champions Fiji
Runners-up Japan
Matches played 6
2016
2018

The 2017 Pacific Challenge was the twelfth World Rugby Pacific Challenge. Four teams featured in the tournament which was hosted in Fiji. The format was a round-robin competition without additional finals play-off matches. The hosts Fiji Warriors finished the tournament undefeated to claim the title, with Junior Japan as runner-up.

Following the announcement of World Rugby's global law trials which began on 1 January 2017 in the southern hemisphere, World Rugby Pacific Challenge in 2017 incorporated several law variations focused around the scrum and ruck areas. These were:

The four teams competing were:

Source: rugbyarchive.net


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