PUBLISHED ON 09 APR 2026
A number of new events have been added to the traditional ‘Rugby Week’ that leads into the Cathay/HSBC Hong Kong Sevens, as the tournament gears up for its 50th anniversary edition at Kai Tak Sports Park (17-19 April).
The annual festival of fun, fancy dress and rugby kicks off with a new HKFC Youth 10s tournament at Hong Kong Football Club on Saturday 11 and Sunday 12 April. This addition to the calendar for mini and youth clubs will include teams from Hong Kong, Singapore and Australia competing in age groups ranging from U5 to U18.
Another new initiative, Racing with Rugby, will be launched on Sunday 12 April at Sha Tin Racecourse with the announcement of the Hong Kong China men’s and women’s 7s teams for this year’s Melrose Claymores competitions at Kai Tak Stadium.
The racing theme continues with the inaugural Racing with Rugby night at Happy Valley Racecourse on Wednesday. This is the first time that racing has been held at Happy Valley during Rugby Week and it promises to become a much-loved, highly anticipated event on the Rugby Week calendar – fancy dress is optional but definitely encouraged!
Yet another new addition to the calendar will be the first Hong Kong 5s wheelchair rugby tournament at the Sports Hall in the Kai Tak Arena on Tuesday 14 and Wednesday 15 April, featuring teams and athletes from across Asia.
The rugby action continues apace with the Hong Kong Football Club Tradition 10s from Tuesday 14 to Thursday 16 April, with the event also celebrating its 40th anniversary. This much-loved and hard-fought event features teams from Hong Kong, the Chinese Mainland, Japan and further afield.
On Tuesday 14 and Wednesday 15 April, the Hong Kong Sevens International Sports Medicine Conference 2026 will be held at Kai Tak Sports Park, building on a hugely successful inaugural edition in 2024. This event will bring together global and local experts across sports medicine and sports science to share evidence-based insights, innovations, and best practices. The 2026 programme is built around three themes of: injury management – return-to-play and performance; brain health for the athlete; and female athlete health and performance.
HKCR’s Hong Kong Sport and Sustainability Summit 2026, hosted by Rugby for Good, will be held on Tuesday 14 and Wednesday 15 April at Centricity, Chater House. This will bring together the people who make sport happen, including funders, practitioners, corporate partners and community builders, to co‑create a more sustainable, inclusive, and resilient Hong Kong through sport.
A new padel experience comes to the HK7s Fan Village this year, starting with a corporate hit-out on Wednesday 15 April, a celebrity Pro-Am on Thursday 16 April and the APPT Grand Slam Platinum Hong Kong Tournament on Saturday 18 and Sunday 19 April. This is the first collaboration at the Sevens between HKCR and the fast-growing sport of padel.
A Fast 4s Netball tournament is also planned for the Fan Village on Thursday 16 April.
Over at the Kai Tak Youth Sports Ground, the Cathay Youth Invitational 7s will be in full swing on Thursday 16 and Friday 17 April, featuring the top school and club teams from around the region competing in U18 boys’ and girls’ categories.
Another new addition at Youth Sports Ground will be a Primal Race competition from Friday 17 to Sunday 19 April, a high-intensity functional fitness race built to test strength, endurance, and teamwork. The event includes solo, pairs, threes and fours categories, with some events serving as official Primal Race World Championship Qualifiers.
The Hong Kong Jockey Club’s JC Fit City programme will run at the Sports Hall in the Kai Tak Arena for three days of interactive sport fun for families and friends from Friday 17 to Sunday 19 April.
The Rugby Matters conference returns to the South Stand on the morning of Friday 17 April under the theme “Making Sports Matter”. The event will bring together 150 leaders from the sport, media, marketing and sponsorship sectors to explore the intersection of rugby, culture and business.
And of course no Rugby Week would be complete without an assortment of lunches and dinners featuring top-notch speakers and often a fund-raising element for charity. These include the LIFT Lunch (14 April), Hong Kong Club 7s Dinner (14 April), Grassroots to Global – Child Fund Series (16 April) and Carbine Club Lunch(17 April) all at the Hong Kong Football Club, and the Dodie Weir Dinner at the Grand Hyatt (16 April).
The rugby action for the three-day Cathay/HSBC Hong Kong Sevens tournament kicks off at 10:30AM on Friday 17 April, at 9:30AM on Saturday 18 April and at 10AM on Sunday 19 April.
The venue’s Fan Village will also be open throughout the weekend, open to all ticketholders, including live music, entertainment, food and drink, merchandise, sponsor activations and spaces to sit, relax and soak up the atmosphere.
And for fans wanting to continue the party after leaving Kai Tak, the Official After-Hours Party will be held at Baci in Lan Kwai Fong Tower on Saturday 18 and Sunday 19 April from 11PM to late!