The Fijiana opened their 2025 season with a game against the Wallaroos. Photo: FRU Media
Rugby
Fiji rugby veterans are returning to the Fijiana 15s team for the 2025 Oceania Rugby Women's Championship.
The Fijiana 15s enter this year's tournament as defending champions.
FBC reported the returnees include Bitila Tawake, Rusila Nagasau, Asinate Serevi, Iris Verebalavu, and Jade Coates.
The tournament will again see Fiji face off against traditional Pacific rivals Tonga and Samoa, serving as a build-up to the women's Rugby World Cup.
Rugby
The first Rugby World Club Cup will be held in 2028.
The competition will see 16 teams taking part, with eight qualifying through the Investec Champions Cup and the remainder from Super Rugby and Japan.
The BBC reported European Professional Club Rugby chairman Dominic McKay has confirmed the plans.
The existing Champions Cup, with teams from England, France, Ireland, Wales, Scotland, South Africa and Italy, will continue.
Football
The Fiji Rakavi Football Union Ltd, the company that now manages Fiji Rugby, has signed a memorandum of understanding with the China Rugby Football Association (CRFA).
FRU board chairman John Sanday said the MOU was signed in Beijing between FRU trustees board representative Jenny Seeto and the CRFA president Wang Yun.
Sanday said the agreement will help boost rugby in both countries, with focus on rugby academies, youth exchanges and high-performance programs.
Mini Games
Australia and New Zealand have confirmed their teams for the Pacific Mini Games in Palau.
Twenty athletes have been selected to represent Australia in the athletics competition, which is set down for 4-9 July in Koror.
Nine weighlifters will represent New Zealand, led by Olympian David Liti.
The Games, which will feature athletes from 24 Pacific nations across 12 sports, will officially open on 29 June.
Meanwhile, the chairman of the organising commitee said the event will be declared 'drug, alcohol and tobacco free'.
Beach volleyball
Vanuatu's women's beach volleyball players, Majabelle Lawac and Shersyn Toko, have returned home with a bronze medal from the FIVB Volleyball Pro Tour Challenge in China, held last month.
The duo defeated China 2-1 in the play-off for third position at the event.
That win came after earlier competition in other international beach volleyball events in Vietnam and the Phillipines.
