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Run by: Melrose RFC

Where: The Greenyards

Winners play for: The Ladies Cup / 1883 Centenary Cup (Men); The Gentlemens Cup / The Mike Bleasdale Cup (Women)

Notes: The oldest Sevens tournament in the world.

Past winners

Mens

• 2024 Shogun
• 2023 Monaco IMPI’s
• 2022 British Army
• 2021 no tournament – pandemic
• 2020 no tournament – pandemic
• 2019  London Scottish
• 2018  Watsonians
• 2017  Harlequins
• 2016  Edinburgh
• 2015  Glasgow Warriors
• 2014  Glasgow Warriors
• 2013  Saracens
• 2012  Saracens
• 2011  Melrose
• 2010  Hamilton Sea Point
• 2009  Univ. of Johannesburg
• 2008  Scottish Thistles
• 2007  Univ. of the Free State
• 2006  Newcastle Falcons
• 2005  Stellenbosch Univ.
• 2004  Stellenbosch Univ.
• 2003  Sale Sharks
• 2002  Boroughmuir
• 2001  Barbarians
• 2000  Nawaka
• 1999  Gala
• 1998  Melrose
• 1997  Melrose
• 1996  Watsonians
• 1995  Manly
• 1994  Gala
• 1993  Co-Optimists
• 1992  Bay of Plenty
• 1991  Irish Wolfhounds
• 1990  Randwick
• 1989  Kelso
• 1988  Kelso
• 1987  Harlequins
• 1986  Kelso
• 1985  Kelso
• 1984  Kelso
• 1983  French Barbarians
• 1982  Heriot’s F.P.
• 1981  Gala
• 1980  Kelso
• 1979  Stewart’s Melville
• 1978  Kelso
• 1977  Gala
• 1976  Watsonians
• 1975  Melrose
• 1974  Jed-Forest
• 1973  Edinburgh Wanderers
• 1972  Gala
• 1971  Gala
• 1970  Gala
• 1969  Loughborough Colleges
• 1968  Loughborough Colleges
• 1967  Hawick
• 1966  Hawick
• 1965  London Scottish
• 1964  Gala
• 1963  Boroughmuir
• 1962  London Scottish
• 1961  Royal HSFP
• 1960  Cambridge University
• 1959  Gala
• 1958  Heriot’s F.P.
• 1957  Heriot’s F.P.
• 1956  Stewart’s College FP
• 1955  Hawick
• 1954  Heriot’s F.P.
• 1953  Hawick
• 1952  Melrose
• 1951  Rosslyn Park
• 1950  Melrose
• 1949  Edinburgh Accies
• 1948  Melrose
• 1947  Melrose
• 1946  Hawick
• 1945 Watsonians
• 1942-1944 World War II
• 1941 Edinburgh City Police
• 1940  Heriot’s F.P.
• 1939  Heriot’s F.P.
• 1938  Heriot’s F.P.
• 1937  Gala
• 1936  Watsonians
• 1935  Watsonians
• 1934  Royal HSFP
• 1933  Hawick
• 1932  Gala
• 1931  Melrose
• 1930  Edinburgh Accies
• 1929  Hawick
• 1928  Edinburgh Accies
• 1927  Hawick
• 1926  Watsonians
• 1925  Hawick
• 1924  Hawick
• 1923  Heriot’s F.P.
• 1922  Hawick
• 1921  Royal HSFP
• 1920  Stewart’s College FP
• 1919  Hawick
• 1916-1918 Not held (WW I)
• 1915 Lothian and Border Horse ‘A’
• 1914  Watsonians
• 1913  Hawick
• 1912  Hawick
• 1911  Hawick
• 1910  Hawick
• 1909  Hawick
• 1908  Hawick
• 1907  Watsonians
• 1906  Watsonians
• 1905  Watsonians
• 1904  Jed-Forest
• 1903  Gala
• 1902  Jed-Forest
• 1901  Hawick
• 1900  Hawick
• 1899  Jed-Forest
• 1898  Hawick
• 1897  Hawick
• 1896  Hawick
• 1895  Hawick
• 1894  Hawick
• 1893  Hawick
• 1892  Hawick
• 1891  Gala
• 1890  Gala
• 1889  Melrose
• 1888  Hawick & Wilton
• 1887  Hawick
• 1886  Tynedale
• 1885  Melrose
• 1884  Gala
• 1883  Melrose

Womens

• 2024 Shogun
• 2023 The Lionesses
• 2022 Delta Drone Tuks
• 2021 no tournament – pandemic
• 2022 no tournament – pandemic
• 2019 
• 2018 
• 2017 
• 2016 Melrose
• 2015 Melrose
• 2014 Melrose

Tournaments

8 April 2023

Men

Preliminary Round

Boroughmuir 12 Kelso 17

Edinburgh Academicals 12 Jed-forest 38

Gala 12 Watsonians 28

Stunts 10 Hearts and Balls 19

Peebles 19 Stirling County 35

Heriots 22 Hawick 7

Glasgow Hutcheson Aloysians 29 Selkirk 0

Marr 21 Currie 17

First Round

Melrose 45 Kelso 0

Speranza22 17 Jed-forest 7

London Scottish 29 Watsonians 21

Monaco IMPI’s 38 Hearts and Balls 0

Samurai 45 Stirling County 5

Lion Rugby 33 Heriots 10

British Army 26 Glasgow Hutcheson Aloysians 10

Wild Dogs 22 Marr 10

Quarter Finals

Melrose 14 Speranza22 31

London Scottish 15 Monaco IMPI’s 26

Samurai 36 Lion Rugby 12

British Army 31 Wild Dogs 12

Semi Finals

Speranza22 17 Monaco IMPI’s 24

Samurai 26 British Army 5

Final

Monaco IMPI’s 26 Samurai 12

Women

Durham University 7 The Lionesses 43

Hearts and Balls 20 The Lionesses 22

Hearts and Balls 31 Durham University 0

Final

Hearts and Balls 19 The Lionesses 24

9 April 2022

11 April 1964

https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=GGgVawPscysC&dat=19640413&printsec=frontpage&hl=en

12 April 1958

https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=GGgVawPscysC&dat=19580414&printsec=frontpage&hl=en

11 April 1953

https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=GGgVawPscysC&dat=19530413&printsec=frontpage&hl=en

9 April 1949

https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=GGgVawPscysC&dat=19490411&printsec=frontpage&hl=en

14 April 1945

https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=GGgVawPscysC&dat=19450416&printsec=frontpage&hl=en

17 April 1915

https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000469/19150422/046/0006

https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000452/19390916/066/0003

Teams

8 April 2023

Men

Jed-Forest RFC:

Kelso RFC:

Women

9 April 2022

Men

Teams confirmed to compete in the 1883 Centenary Cup

Scottish Teams

• Aberdeen
• Ayr
• Boroughmuir
• Currie
• Edinburgh Accies
• Gala
• GHA
• Glasgow Hawks
• Heriots
• Hawick
• Jed-Forest
• Kelso
• Marr
• Melrose
• Musselburgh
• Peebles
• Selkirk
• Stirling
• Watsonians

Invitational Teams

• Co-Optimists
• Lomaiviti 7s
• Samurai
• Seventise
• Belgian National Rugby 7s
• London Scottish Lions
• British Army