# 2025 Asia Rugby Championship

The 2025 Asia Rugby Championship, known as the 2025 Asia Rugby Emirates Men’s Championship for sponsorship reasons is the ninth annual rugby union series for the top-level Asia Rugby nations below Japan. Hong Kong, South Korea, and the United Arab Emirates shall compete in the main 2025 series, along with the winner of a Championship playoff between the fourth placed team from 2024, Malaysia and the winners of the Division One tournament below the Championship, Sri Lanka. The loser of the playoff joins the other Asian nations played in the lower division tournaments.
The format of the series is a single play-off match, followed by a single round-robin where the four remaining teams play each other once. The team finishing on top of the standings at the end of the series is declared the winner. The team finishing at the bottom of the standing are relegated. The competition will begin on 13 June 2025 and will conclude on 5 July 2025.
Hong Kong enter the competition as reigning champions, having won the competition for the fifth time in 2024.
The competition doubles as the final stage of the Asian continental qualifier for the 2027 Men's Rugby World Cup in Australia. The winner of the competition will qualify directly to the World Cup, where it will join Japan who qualified by placing in the 2023 Rugby World Cup, while the runner-up will enter a playoff against Africa 2, the runner-up from the 2025 Africa Cup for the chance to make the 2027 RWC Final Qualification Tournament.

## Teams

The teams involved,
| Team | Stadia | Stadia | Stadia | Coach | Captain | World Rugby Ranking | World Rugby Ranking |
| Team | Home stadium | Capacity | Location | Coach | Captain | Start | End |
| direct qualification ||||||||
| Hong Kong | Hong Kong Football Club Stadium | 2,750 | Hong Kong | | | | |
| South Korea | Incheon Namdong Asiad Rugby Field | 4,968 | Incheon | | | | |
| United Arab Emirates | The Sevens Stadium | 15,000 | Dubai | | | | |
| via play-off ||||||||
| Malaysia | UPM Stadium | 3,000 | Serdang | | | | |
| Sri Lanka | Colombo Racecourse | 10,000 | Colombo | | | | |

## Fixtures
### Championship play-off

Before the Championship proper, the fourth placed team from 2024, Malaysia host Sri Lanka, winners of the 2024 Division One tournament, for the final place in the 2025 tournament. This playoff is the penultimate phase of the two-year Asian qualification tournament for the 2027 Men's Rugby World Cup. The loser is eliminated from qualification for that tournament, and returns to 2025 Asia Rugby Championship Division One.
| Malaysia | v | Sri Lanka |
* Johor Rugby Stadium, Johor Bahru

### Asian Rugby Championship

* 13 June 2025
| Malaysia or Sri Lanka | v | South Korea |
* 14 June 2025
| United Arab Emirates | v | Hong Kong |
* The Sevens Stadium, Dubai, UAE
* 21 June 2025
| South Korea | v | United Arab Emirates |
* Incheon Namdong Asiad Rugby Field, Korea
* 22 June 2025
| Hong Kong | v | Malaysia or Sri Lanka |
* Hong Kong Football Club Stadium, Hong Kong China
* 4 July 2025
| Malaysia or Sri Lanka | v | United Arab Emirates |
* 5 July 2025
| South Korea | v | Hong Kong |
* Incheon Namdong Asiad Rugby Field, Korea

## Standings

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | PF | PA | PD | TF | TA | TB | LB | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
| 1 | Hong Kong | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Qualification for 2027 RWC as Asia 1 |
| 2 | South Korea | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Qualification for Final Qualifier |
| 3 | United Arab Emirates | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 4 | Malaysia or Sri Lanka | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ARC Relegation play-off |