The Borders Sevens Circuit is a series of rugby sevens tournaments held annually in the Scottish Borders. Originally the circuit consisted of 5 tournaments; Langholm Sevens being the last added in 1908.[1] It is the oldest Sevens circuit in the world; the first Sevens tournament outside Scotland - bar two single Sevens matches in Chorley, England in 1888 and 1889 - was held in the Scottish expatriate city of Dunedin in New Zealand in 1889 and there was no other Sevens tournament clusters elsewhere.[2][3]
The main circuit has now grown to 11 tournaments; 10 in Scotland and 1 - the Berwick Sevens - in England.[4]
The circuit has now extended into a league known as Kings of the Sevens. Of the extended circuit only the Walkerburn Sevens is not included in this league.[5] The Kings of the Sevens championship is run by the Border League.[6]
- ^ "BBC - A Sporting Nation - The first Melrose Sevens match 1883". www.bbc.co.uk.
- ^ Bath, Scotland Rugby Miscellany, p82
- ^ "Oldest Sevens tournaments in the world". 27 July 2019.
- ^ "About - Kings of the 7s".
- ^ "Lasswade take the spoils at Caberston Haugh". www.thesouthernreporter.co.uk.
- ^ "Border League - Kings of the 7s".
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