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2015 ARFU Men's Sevens Championships
Hosts	Hong Kong
Date	7–8 November
Nations	10
Final positions
Champions	Japan
Runners-up	Hong Kong
Third	South Korea
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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

Teams	Pld	W	D	L	PF	PA	+/−	Pts
India	4	4	0	0	87	34	+53	12
Iran	4	3	0	1	98	22	+76	10
Uzbekistan	4	2	0	2	73	54	+19	8
United Arab Emirates	4	1	0	3	38	92	–54	6
Laos	4	0	0	4	33	127	–94	4

India	17–15	Iran

Uzbekistan	24–7	United Arab Emirates

India	26–14	Laos

Iran	24–0	United Arab Emirates

India	32–0	United Arab Emirates

Laos	7–39	Uzbekistan

India	12–5	Uzbekistan

Laos	0–31	Iran

Uzbekistan	5–28	Iran

United Arab Emirates	31–12	Laos

Semifinals

India	17–5	United Arab Emirates

Iran	19–0	Uzbekistan

Third Place Match

Uzbekistan	10–7	United Arab Emirates

Final

Iran	17–12	India

Final standing

Rank	Team
1	Iran
2	India
3	Uzbekistan
4	United Arab Emirates
5	Laos

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•  Kazakhstan (Automatic qualifier) (withdrawn)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•  Thailand (Automatic qualifier) (withdrawn)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).

Pool A

Teams	Pld	W	D	L	PF	PA	+/−	Pts
Japan	4	4	0	0	183	0	+183	12
South Korea	4	3	0	1	88	69	+19	10
China	4	2	0	2	86	53	+33	8
Singapore	4	1	0	3	19	141	−122	6
Chinese Taipei	4	0	0	4	25	138	−113	4

China	22–0	Singapore

South Korea	31–10	Chinese Taipei

Japan	38–0	Chinese Taipei

South Korea	19–14	China

China	50–0	Chinese Taipei

Japan	66–0	Singapore

Singapore	19–15	Chinese Taipei

Japan	45–0	South Korea

South Korea	38–0	Singapore

Japan	34–0	China

Pool B

Teams	Pld	W	D	L	PF	PA	+/−	Pts
Hong Kong	4	4	0	0	154	12	+142	12
Sri Lanka	4	3	0	1	117	52	+65	10
Malaysia	4	2	0	2	54	98	–44	8
Philippines	4	1	0	3	53	104	–51	6
Iran	4	0	0	4	32	144	–112	4

Malaysia	15–10	Philippines

Sri Lanka	31–10	Iran

Hong Kong	46–0	Iran

Sri Lanka	24–10	Malaysia

Hong Kong	29–0	Philippines

Malaysia	29–12	Iran

Philippines	38–10	Iran

Hong Kong	27–12	Sri Lanka

Hong Kong	52–0	Malaysia

Sri Lanka	50–5	Philippines

Playoffs

9th/10th Place Playoff

Chinese Taipei	22–5	Iran

Plate Semifinals

China	26–15	Philippines

Singapore	10–31	Malaysia

7th/8th Place Playoff

Philippines	24–12	Singapore

Plate Final

China	38–5	Malaysia

Cup Semifinal

Japan	43–0	Sri Lanka

South Korea	10–19	Hong Kong

3rd/4th Place Playoff

Sri Lanka	21–26	South Korea

Cup Final

Hong Kong	10–24	Japan

Final standings

Rank	Team
	Japan
	Hong Kong
	South Korea
4	Sri Lanka
5	China
6	Malaysia
7	Philippines
8	Singapore
9	Chinese Taipei
10	Iran

References

1. ^ Boost for Hong Kong rugby’s Olympics hopes as city to host Asian qualifiers for Rio

• Rugby sevens at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament
• 2015 rugby sevens competitions
• International rugby union competitions hosted by Hong Kong
• 2015 in Hong Kong sport