Scotland v Fiji

A truly historic occasion to look forward to this September as Scotland play Fiji for the first time. The team known as Fijiana compete annually in the Oceania Rugby Women’s Championship against Papua New Guinea, Samoa and Tonga, with the winner qualifying for the WXV3 tournament.

Fiji won the 2024 Oceania Rugby Women’s Championship title earlier this month beating reigning champions 27-13 in Brisbane to qualify for next year’s Women’s Rugby World Cup in England.

In winning their fourth title, Fiji avenged last year’s heart-breaking 19-18 defeat at the same stage of the competition and booked their place at a second Rugby World Cup, having qualified for their first Rugby World Cup in 2021. They announced their arrival in the biggest tournament and by beating South Africa in the pool stages. 

To find out more about Fijiana check out this great 10-minute documentary on the World Rugby website.

Fiji: Recent Form

World Record-Breaking Special Guest!

The intrepid Atlantic and Pacific rower Taylor Winyard, part of the all-female trio who smashed the previous world record for rowing across the Pacific earlier this summer, will be delivering the match ball ahead of the game.

Taylor (who runs the Health Spa at Stobo Castle near Peebles in the Borders) and her colleagues completed the 2,800 miles from Monterey Bay in California to Hawaii in just 38 days, not only beating the previous women’s record by two days, but doing it a day faster than the male record! Be sure to be in your seat to see Taylor and applaud this astonishing achievement!

Taylor Winyard, Charlotte Irving and Jessica Goddard in Hawaii after breaking the Pacific rowing record this summer.