2013 Asian Five Nations division tournaments

2013 Asian Five Nations division tournaments
Date	31 March 2013 – 7 July 2013
Countries	(18) Refer to division
Tournament statistics
Matches played	20
Official website	Website
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For main Top 5 Division, see: 2013 Asian Five Nations

The 2013 Asian Five Nations division tournaments, known as the 2013 HSBC Asian 5 Nations due to the tournament's sponsorship by the HSBC, referred to the divisions played within the tournament. This was the 6th series of the Asian Five Nations.

Changes from 2012

• Kazakhstan participated in the Division 1 tournament, haven been relegated from the Top 5.
• Philippines was promoted to the Top 5 Division, following promotions form Division 3 to Division 2, then Division 2 to Division 1.
• Thailand have replaced Singapore in Division 1, with Singapore competing in Division 2.
• India will compete in Division 2 - replacing China, following promotion from Division 3.
• Qatar becomes the first team to be promoted out of Division 4, replacing Pakistan who are demoted to Division 4.
• Laos becomes the first team to be promoted out of Division 5, though no team was demoted out of Division 4.

Teams

The teams involved, with their world rankings pre tournament, were:

Division 1

•  Chinese Taipei (60)
•  Kazakhstan (35)
•  Sri Lanka (47)
•  Thailand (59)

Division 2

•  India (67)
•  Iran (NA)
•  Malaysia (64)
•  Singapore (66)

Division 3

•  China (68)
•  Guam (87)
•  India (NA)
•  Qatar (NA)

Division 4

•  Laos (NA)
•  Lebanon (NA)
•  Pakistan (79)
•  Uzbekistan (NA)

Division 5

•  Brunei (NA)
•  Cambodia (NA)

Division 1

Key to colours

	Earns Promotion
	Relegated

2013 Asian Five Nations division 1

Tournament details
Host	Sri Lanka
Date	31 March – 6 April 2013
Countries	4
Final positions
Champions	Sri Lanka
Relegated	Thailand
Tournament statistics
Matches played	6

Division one will be held in a round-robin format. All games will be played at Havelock Park in Sri Lanka between March 31 and April 6, 2013.[1]

Table

Position	Nation	Games				Points			Bonus points	Total points
		Played	Won	Lost	Drawn	For	Against	Difference
1	Sri Lanka	3	3	0	0	133	33	+100	3	18
2	Kazakhstan	3	1	2	0	70	92	-22	1	6
3	Chinese Taipei	3	1	2	0	70	104	-34	6	6
4	Thailand	3	1	2	0	63	107	-44	0	5

Points are awarded to the teams as follows:

Results	Points
Win	5 points
Draw	3 points
4 or more tries	1 point
Loss within 7 points	1 point
Loss greater than 7 points	0 points

Fixtures

31 March 2013 14:00

Kazakhstan	10–33	Thailand
	Report[2]	Try: Sirichai Daothaisong, Topong Boonlon, Pichit Yingcharoen Con: Warongkorn Khamkoet 3 Pen: Warongkorn Khamkoet 4

Havelock Park, Colombo

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31 March 2013 16:00

Sri Lanka	39–8	Chinese Taipei
Try: Chamara Dabare 42' Yoshitha Rajapakse 50' Fazil Marija 55' 61' Sumedha Malawana 66' Con: Rizah Mubarak (3/4) Roshan Weeraratne (1/1) Pen: Rizah Mubarak 24' 34'	Report[3]	Try: Ming Che Chuang 76' Pen: Chih-Pan Wang 42'

Havelock Park, Colombo Attendance: 4,800 Referee: Nicholas Long

FB 15 Rizah Mubarak  64' RW 14 Sandun Herath OC 13 Pradeep Liyanage IC 12 Gayan Weerarathne  57' LW 11 Chamara Dabare FH 10 Fazil Marija (vc) SH 9 Roshan Weerarathne  69' N8 8 Sajith Saranga OF 7 Yoshitha Rajapaksha (c) BF 6 Sharo Fernando  63' RL 5 Dinesh Sanjeewa  40' LL 4 Shenal Dias TP 3 Kishor Jehan  46' HK 2 Namal Rajapaksa  52' LP 1 Henry Terence Substitutes: HK 16 Sathya Ranathunga  46' 74' to end' PR 17 Dushmantha Priyadarshana PR 18 Anuranga Walpola  52' LK 19 Suhiru Anthony  40' FL 20 Sumedha Malewana  63' SH 21 Rehaan Weerakoon  69' FH 22 Dinusha Chathuranga  57' CE 23 Mohamed Sheriff  64' Coach: Ravin Du Plessis

FB 15 Ming Hsien Ho RW 14 Chih-Kang Chen OC 13 Wei Fan Lu (c)  53' IC 12 Ching Che Hung LW 11 Wu Hsien Lo  63' FH 10 Chih-Pan Wang  48' SH 9 Chia Han Chen  48' N8 8 Pin Yi Hsieh OF 7 Cheng Hsien Chiang BF 6 Kuo Lun Chen  53' RL 5 Chieh Yu Chiang LL 4 Wei Ming Lin  28' TP 3 Wen Hao Chuan  29' HK 2 Po Yao Chuang  63' LP 1 Tai Ting Yeh Substitutes: HK 16 Po Wen Cheng  29' PR 17 Min-Ching Chiu  63' PR 18 Ming Che Chuang  28' LK 19 Ta Cheng Liu  53' FL 20 Chia-Wang Lee  48' SH 21 Po-Yen Chou  53' FH 22 Hsiu Fu Sun  63' CE 23 Chih-Hsiang Pan  48' Coach:

Touch judges:
Aaron Littlewood
Mohamed Cader
Sean Moore

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3 April 2013 14:00

Kazakhstan	42–5	Chinese Taipei
	Report[4]

Havelock Park, Colombo

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3 April 2013 16:00

Sri Lanka	45–7	Thailand
Try: Sandun Herath 24' 79' Pradeep Liyanage 28' 60' Chamara Dabare 30' Roshan Weerarathne 44' Con: Rizah Mubarak (3/6) Pen: Rizah Mubarak 11' 38' 40'	Report[5]	Try: Pichit Yingcharoen 75' Con: Warongkorn Khamkoet (1/1) Pen: Warongkorn Khamkoet (0/1)

Havelock Park, Colombo Attendance: 4,800 Referee: Warren Needham

FB 15 Rizah Mubarak  65' RW 14 Sandun Herath OC 13 Pradeep Liyanage IC 12 Gayan Weeraratne  61' LW 11 Chamara Dabare FH 10 Fazil Marija (vc) SH 9 Roshan Weeraratne  71' N8 8 Sajith Saranga  50' OF 7 Yoshitha Rajapaksha (c)  66' BF 6 Sharo Fernando RL 5 Hasitha Perera  50' LL 4 Shenal Dias TP 3 Jehan Kishore  29' HK 2 Namal Rajapaksa LP 1 Sathya Ranathunga  65' Substitutes: HK 16 Dushmantha Priyadarshana  65' PR 17 Henry Terrance  29' PR 18 Anuranga Walpola  66' LK 19 Suhiru Anthony  50' FL 20 Mohamed Sheriff  65' SH 21 Rehan Weerakoon  71' FH 22 Dinusha Chathuranga  61' CE 23 Sumedha Malawana  50' Coach: Ravin Du Plessis

FB 15 Warongkorn Khamkoet RW 14 Topong Boonlon  71' OC 13 Kitti Wangkanai  32' IC 12 Sirichai Daothaisong LW 11 Pichit Yingcharoen FH 10 Thanawatr Jamkrajang SH 9 Punyavee Jiworrawattanakul N8 8 Chatree Wannadit (c)  66' OF 7 Sumet Thammapom BF 6 Richard Perkins RL 5 Chaninthorn Banluesup  50' LL 4 Marc Dimitrov TP 3 Pongpat Mekpat  65' HK 2 Chawiatt Klongtroujrok  37' LP 1 Napat Prompataya Substitutes: HK 16 Chatchai Akkhanimart  65' PR 17 Robert James  66' PR 18 Pachara Hongsayaporn  50' LK 19 Natthadol Sophawachirarit  37' FL 20 Pramote Ratchatanantakit  71' SH 21 Klin Laksanasompong FH 22 Nirunlert Rungrangsritaweesuk  32' CE 23 Khomchak Chakrabandu Na Ayudhaya Coach: Tanyavit Kuasint

Touch judges:
Taku Otsuki
Priyantha Gunarathna
Sean Moore

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6 April 2013 14:00

Thailand	23–52	Chinese Taipei
	Report[6]

Havelock Park, Colombo

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6 April 2013 16:00

Sri Lanka	49–18	Kazakhstan
Try: Sandun Herath 4' Shenal Dias 26' Pradeep Liyanage 40' Sathya Ranathunga 41' Fazil Marija 49' Chamara Dabare 56' Con: Rizah Mubarak (5/6) Pen: Rizah Mubarak 7' 20' 38'	Report[7]	Try: Daulet Akymbekov 62' Alexandr Zolotukhin 69' Con: Maxim Lifontov (1/2) Pen: Maxim Lifontov 3' 34'

Havelock Park, Colombo Attendance: 5,300 Referee: Taku Otsuki

FB 15 Rizah Mubarak  70' RW 14 Sandun Herath OC 13 Pradeep Liyanage IC 12 Gayan Weeraratne  59' LW 11 Chamara Dabare FH 10 Fazil Marija (vc)  75' SH 9 Roshan Weeraratne N8 8 Sajith Saranga OF 7 Yoshitha Rajapaksha (c) BF 6 Sharo Fernando  70' RL 5 Hasitha Perera  55' LL 4 Shenal Dias TP 3 Jehan Kishore  55' HK 2 Namal Rajapaksa  59' LP 1 Sathya Ranathunga  75' Substitutes: HK 16 Dushmantha Priyadarshana  75' PR 17 Henry Terrance  55' PR 18 Anuranga Walpola  59' LK 19 Suhiru Anthony  55' FL 20 Mohamed Sheriff  70' SH 21 Rehan Weerakoon  75' FH 22 Dinusha Chathuranga  59' CE 23 Sumedha Malawana  70' Coach: Ravin Du Plessis

FB 15 Maxim Lifontov RW 14 Viktor Zolotukhin OC 13 Alexandr Zaharov  56' IC 12 Ildar Abrazakov LW 11 Pavel Stikhin  56' FH 10 Daulet Akymbekov SH 9 Akhmetzhan Baratov N8 8 Serek Zhanseitov (c) OF 7 Maxim Pristinskiy  40' BF 6 Oleg Guselnikov RL 5 Grigoriy Ivanchenko  4'  12'  62' LL 4 Andrey Medvedkin TP 3 Vladimir Chernykh  59' HK 2 Pavel Sarychev  56' LP 1 Sergey Menshikov Substitutes: HK 16 Nikolay Belkin  56' PR 17 Azat Abbasov  59' 65' to 75' PR 18 Vladimir Baranov  62' LK 19 Alexandr Kireev FL 20 Alexandr Polyakov  4'  12'  40' SH 21 Vadim Zuyev FH 22 Dastan Suleimenov  56' CE 23 Alexandr Zolotukhin  56' Coach: Timur Mashurov

Touch judges:
Taizo Hirabayashi
Aaron Littlewood
Sean Moore

Division 2

Key to colours

	Earns Promotion
	Relegated

2013 Asian Five Nations division 2

Tournament details
Host	Malaysia
Date	4 – 8 June 2013
Countries	4
Final positions
Champions	Singapore
Relegated	India
Tournament statistics
Matches played	4

[8]

	Semi-finals				Final
	June 4, 2013
	Singapore	67
					June 8, 2013
	India	8
					Singapore	20
	June 4, 2013
					Malaysia	17
	Malaysia	48
	Iran	10
					Third place play-off
					June 7, 2013
					India	13
					Iran	30

Semi-finals

4 June 2013 15:00

Singapore	67–8	India

Petaling Jaya Stadium, Kuala Lumpur

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4 June 2013 17:00

Malaysia	48–10	Iran

Petaling Jaya Stadium, Kuala Lumpur

Third place play-off

7 June 2013 17:00

India	13–30	Iran

Petaling Jaya Stadium, Kuala Lumpur

Final

8 June 2013 18:00

Malaysia	17–20	Singapore

Petaling Jaya Stadium, Kuala Lumpur

Division 3

Key to colours

	Earns Promotion
	Relegated

2013 Asian Five Nations division 3

Tournament details
Host	Malaysia
Date	5 – 8 June 2013
Countries	4
Final positions
Champions	Qatar
Relegated	China
Tournament statistics
Matches played	4

[8]

	Semi-finals				Final
	June 5, 2013
	Guam	33
					June 8, 2013
	Indonesia	15
					Guam	7
	June 5, 2013
					Qatar	13
	China	0
	Qatar	76
					Third place play-off
					June 7, 2013
					Indonesia	37
					China	13

Semi-finals

5 June 2013 15:00

Guam	33–15	Indonesia

Petaling Jaya Stadium, Kuala Lumpur

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5 June 2013 17:00

China	0–76	Qatar

Petaling Jaya Stadium, Kuala Lumpur

Third place play-off

7 June 2013 15:00

China	13–37	Indonesia

Petaling Jaya Stadium, Kuala Lumpur

Final

8 June 2013 16:00

Guam	7–13	Qatar

Petaling Jaya Stadium, Kuala Lumpur

Division 4

Key to colours

	Earns Promotion
	Relegated

2013 Asian Five Nations division 4

Tournament details
Host	United Arab Emirates
Date	8 – 10 May 2013
Countries	4
Final positions
Champions	Lebanon
Tournament statistics
Matches played	4

[9]

	Semi-finals				Final
	May 8, 2013 The Sevens, Dubai
	Lebanon	35
					May 10, 2013 The Sevens, Dubai
	Uzbekistan	25
					Lebanon	45
	May 8, 2013 The Sevens, Dubai
					Pakistan	12
	Pakistan	31
	Laos	25
					Third place play-off
					May 10, 2013 The Sevens, Dubai
					Uzbekistan	18
					Laos	15

Semi-finals

May 8, 2013 17:00

Lebanon	35–25	Uzbekistan

The Sevens, Dubai

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May 8, 2013 19:00

Pakistan	31–25	Laos

The Sevens, Dubai

Third place play-off

May 10, 2013 17:00

Uzbekistan	18–15	Laos

The Sevens (field 2), Dubai

Final

May 10, 2013 17:00

Lebanon	45–12	Pakistan

The Sevens, Dubai

Division 5

Key to colours

	Earns Promotion
	Relegated

2013 Asian Five Nations division 5

Tournament details
Host	Cambodia
Date	5 – 7 July 2013
Countries	2
Final positions
Champions	Cambodia
Tournament statistics
Matches played	2

Game 1

July 5, 2013 15:30

Cambodia	38–0	Brunei
	Report[10]

RCAF Old Stadium, Phnom Penh

Game 2

July 7, 2013 15:30

Cambodia	28–0	Brunei
	Report[11]

RCAF Old Stadium, Phnom Penh

References

1. "Stage set for Asian Five Nations Rugby in SL". Archived from the original on 2013-04-13. Retrieved March 14, 2013.
2. "Official RWC 2015 Site". www.rugbyworldcup.com. Archived from the original on 2013-04-04.
3. "Official RWC 2015 Site". www.rugbyworldcup.com. Archived from the original on 2013-04-04.
4. "asian5nations.com". www.asian5nations.com. Retrieved 14 September 2017.
5. "Official RWC 2015 Site". www.rugbyworldcup.com. Archived from the original on 2013-05-07.
6. "Official RWC 2015 Site". www.rugbyworldcup.com. Archived from the original on 2013-05-07.
7. "Official RWC 2015 Site". www.rugbyworldcup.com. Archived from the original on 2013-05-07.
8. Division III schedule Archived 2011-07-07 at the Wayback Machine
9. Division IV schedule Archived 2011-09-02 at the Wayback Machine
10. "asian5nations.com". www.asian5nations.com. Archived from the original on 2014-01-02. Retrieved 14 September 2017.
11. "asian5nations.com". www.asian5nations.com. Archived from the original on 2014-01-02. Retrieved 14 September 2017.

External links

• Official Website
• ARFU