On September 24th, 2023, the men's rugby sevens event of Hangzhou Asian Games ushered in its first game in Cangqian Campus of Hangzhou Normal University. Although it was a little unpopular in China in the past, in recent years, with the rise of national sports, rugby has gradually entered the field of vision of more and more people.
Rugby originated in Britain and extended from football. After more than a hundred years of evolution and development, it is divided into three categories: English, American and Australian. Rugby sevens is a new game of rugby, which became an official event for the first time in the 13th Asian Games in 1998.
One * * * has 13 teams in this Asian Games in Hangzhou, and the defending champion China Hong Kong will face the Philippine and Malaysian teams in Group A.. Thailand, Singapore and three-time champion Japan formed Group C, while Group D consisted of UAE, Afghan, Nepalese and host China. The first game of China men's football team will be against the Afghan team.
Rules of rugby sevens.
The main way to score points in football matches is for one player to take the ball through the other team's baseline (polar array) into the touchdown area, and successfully touch the ground or kick the ball directly into the opponent's defense door. Different scoring methods have different scores.
Touchdown score, that is, bring the ball into the opponent's polar array area and press the ball to touch the ground, with a score of 5 points; Penalty touchdown score, that is, if a player has scored a touchdown without the other team's foul, or will make a touchdown in a better place, he will be awarded a penalty touchdown between the two goalposts, with a score of 7 points; Additional goal scoring, that is, when a player scores a touchdown, the scoring team gets additional goal scoring rights, and the additional goal scoring can be played by fixed-point kicking or landing kicking, with a score of 2 points.
Penalty kick scores, that is, players kick the ball into the goal through penalty kick, with a score of 3 points; Landing kick scores, that is, the player with the ball can release the ball in the game, and then kick the ball into the opponent's goal after the ball rebounds for the first time, with a score of 3 points. At the end of the game, the team that scored more points won.
The above contents refer to Baidu Encyclopedia-Hangzhou19th Asian Games Rugby Sevens Competition.