Jed-Forest Sevens

{{short description|Annual rugby sevens event}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}

{{Infobox rugby league football competition

| name = Jed-Forest Sevens

| sport = Rugby sevens

| logo = Starrett 1.jpg

| founded = 1894

| teams = 16

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| country = {{flagicon|SCO}} Scotland

| championtag =

| champion = {{flagicon|SCO}} Melrose

| season = 2023

| most_champs = {{flagicon|SCO}} Hawick

| count = 28

| website =

| TV =

| related_comps = Kings of the Sevens

| current_season =

}}

Jed-Forest Sevens is an annual rugby sevens event held by Jed-Forest RFC, in Jedburgh, Scotland. The Jed-Forest Sevens was the fourth of the Border Sevens tournaments to be instated, in 1894, after the Melrose Sevens (1883), Gala Sevens (1884) and the Hawick Sevens (1885).{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/sportscotland/asportingnation/article/0080/print.shtml|title=BBC - A Sporting Nation - The first Melrose Sevens match 1883|website=www.bbc.co.uk}}

The Jed-Forest Sevens are traditionally the last tournament of the Kings of the Sevens competition.{{cite web|url=http://www.k7s.co.uk/jedforest-7s/|title=Jedforest 7s - Kings of the 7s|publisher=}}

2024's Starrett's Jed-Forest Sevens will be played on 18th May.{{cite web|url=https://www.jedforestrfc.com/index.php?page=jed-forest-7s|title=Jed-forest Rugby Club - Mainetti Jed-forest 7s|website=www.jedforestrfc.com}}

Sports day

Jed-Forest RFC] introduce a sports day in 1894 featuring rugby sevens as a way to supplement the club's income at the end of the season.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=y89dCgAAQBAJ&q=jedforest+1894&pg=PT265|title=The Dna of Rugby Football: A Short History of the Origin of Rugby Football|first=Gerhard|last=Roodt|date=7 August 2015|publisher=Partridge Africa|isbn=9781482808292|via=Google Books}}{{cite web|url=http://iainthepict.blogspot.com/2012/04/worlds-first-rugby-sevens-tournament.html|title=On this day in Scotland: The world's first rugby sevens tournament|last=Iainthepoet|date=28 April 2012|publisher=}}

Sponsorship

The Sevens tournament is now sponsored by Starrett UK. It was sponsored by RJT, Mainetti and Tennents before that.

Past winners

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'A' sides are shown where a club had entered two sides in the tournament

See also

References