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
| countrytag =
| 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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- 2023 {{flagicon|SCO}} Melrose
- 2022 {{flagicon|SCO}} Jed-Forest
- 2021 no tournament - coronavirus pandemic
- 2020 no tournament - coronavirus pandemic
- 2019 {{flagicon|SCO}} Watsonians
- 2018 {{flagicon|SCO}} Melrose
- 2017 {{flagicon|SCO}} Watsonians
- 2016 {{flagicon|SCO}} Jed-Forest
- 2015 {{flagicon|SCO}} Jed-Forest
- 2014 {{flagicon|SCO}} Melrose
- 2013 {{flagicon|SCO}} Jed-Forest
- 2012 {{flagicon|SCO}} Heriots
- 2011 {{flagicon|SCO}} Melrose
- 2010 {{flagicon|SCO}} Melrose
- 2009 {{flagicon|SCO}} Hawick
- 2008 {{flagicon|SCO}} Watsonians
- 2007 {{flagicon|SCO}} Jed-Forest
- 2006 {{flagicon|SCO}} Heriots
- 2005 {{flagicon|SCO}} Melrose
- 2004 {{flagicon|SCO}} Watsonians
- 2003 {{flagicon|SCO}} Melrose
- 2002 {{flagicon|SCO}} Watsonians
- 2001 {{flagicon|SCO}} Jed-Forest
- 2000 {{flagicon|SCO}} Kelso
- 1999 {{flagicon|SCO}} Melrose
- 1998 {{flagicon|SCO}} Kelso
- 1997 {{flagicon|SCO}} Kelso
- 1996 {{flagicon|SCO}} Kelso
- 1995 {{flagicon|SCO}} Kelso
- 1994 {{flagicon|SCO}} Gala
- 1993 {{flagicon|SCO}} Gala
- 1992 {{flagicon|SCO}} Jed-Forest
- 1991 {{flagicon|SCO}} Hawick
- 1990 {{flagicon|SCO}} Kelso
- 1989 {{flagicon|SCO}} Selkirk
- 1988 {{flagicon|SCO}} Hawick
- 1987 {{flagicon|SCO}} Heriots
- 1986 {{flagicon|SCO}} Kelso
- 1985 {{flagicon|SCO}} Gala
- 1984 {{flagicon|SCO}} Kelso
- 1983 {{flagicon|SCO}} Kelso
- 1982 {{flagicon|SCO}} Kelso
- 1981 {{flagicon|SCO}} Hawick
- 1980 {{flagicon|SCO}} Stewart's Melville
- 1979 {{flagicon|SCO}} Kelso
- 1978 {{flagicon|SCO}} Kelso
- 1977 {{flagicon|SCO}} Hawick
- 1976 {{flagicon|SCO}} Hawick
- 1975 {{flagicon|SCO}} Jed-Forest
- 1974 {{flagicon|SCO}} Hawick
- 1973 {{flagicon|SCO}} Gala
- 1972 {{flagicon|SCO}} Hawick
- 1971 {{flagicon|SCO}} Gala
- 1970 {{flagicon|SCO}} Gala
- 1969 {{flagicon|SCO}} Gala
- 1968 {{flagicon|SCO}} Hawick
- 1967 {{flagicon|SCO}} Gala
- 1966 {{flagicon|SCO}} Hawick
- 1965 {{flagicon|SCO}} Gala
- 1964 {{flagicon|SCO}} Melrose
- 1963 {{flagicon|SCO}} Watsonians
- 1962 {{flagicon|SCO}} Hawick
- 1961 {{flagicon|SCO}} Hawick
- 1960 {{flagicon|SCO}} Stewart's College FP
- 1959 {{flagicon|SCO}} Stewart's College FP
- 1958 {{flagicon|SCO}} Heriots
- 1957 {{flagicon|SCO}} Hawick
- 1956 {{flagicon|SCO}} Watsonians
- 1955 {{flagicon|SCO}} Heriots
- 1954 {{flagicon|SCO}} Hawick
- 1953 {{flagicon|SCO}} Hawick
- 1952 {{flagicon|SCO}} Gala
- 1951 {{flagicon|SCO}} Gala
- 1950 {{flagicon|SCO}} Gala
- 1949 {{flagicon|SCO}} Hawick
- 1948 {{flagicon|SCO}} Stewart's College FP
- 1947 {{flagicon|SCO}} Royal HSFP
- 1946 {{flagicon|SCO}} Stewart's College FP
- 1942-1945 Second World War
- 1941 {{flagicon|SCO}} Edinburgh City Police
- 1940 {{flagicon|SCO}} Co-Optimists
- 1939 {{flagicon|SCO}} Heriots
- 1938 {{flagicon|SCO}} Heriots
- 1937 {{flagicon|SCO}} Hillhead HSFP
- 1936 {{flagicon|SCO}} Selkirk
- 1935 {{flagicon|SCO}} Selkirk
- 1934 {{flagicon|SCO}} Stewart's College FP
- 1933 {{flagicon|SCO}} Heriots
- 1932 {{flagicon|SCO}} Gala
- 1931 {{flagicon|SCO}} Hawick
- 1930 {{flagicon|SCO}} Gala
- 1929 {{flagicon|SCO}} Hawick
- 1928 {{flagicon|SCO}} Hawick
- 1927 {{flagicon|SCO}} Hawick
- 1926 {{flagicon|SCO}} Kelso
- 1925 {{flagicon|SCO}} Heriots
- 1924 {{flagicon|SCO}} Hawick
- 1923 {{flagicon|SCO}} Hawick
- 1922 {{flagicon|SCO}} Jed-Forest
- 1921 {{flagicon|SCO}} Gala
- 1920 {{flagicon|SCO}} Selkirk
- 1919 {{flagicon|SCO}} Hawick
- 1915-1918 First World War
- 1914 {{flagicon|SCO}} Kelso
- 1913 {{flagicon|SCO}} Kelso
- 1912 {{flagicon|SCO}} Hawick
- 1911 {{flagicon|SCO}} Edinburgh University
- 1910 {{flagicon|SCO}} Melrose
- 1909 {{flagicon|SCO}} Melrose
- 1908 {{flagicon|SCO}} Melrose
- 1907 {{flagicon|SCO}} Royal HSFP
- 1906 {{flagicon|SCO}} Watsonians
- 1905 {{flagicon|SCO}} Watsonians
- 1904 {{flagicon|SCO}} Jed-Forest 'A'
- 1903 {{flagicon|SCO}} Jed-Forest 'A'
- 1902 {{flagicon|SCO}} Jed-Forest 'A'
- 1901 {{flagicon|SCO}} Gala
- 1900 {{flagicon|SCO}} Jed-Forest 'A'
- 1899 {{flagicon|SCO}} Jed-Forest 'A'
- 1898 {{flagicon|SCO}} Hawick
- 1897 {{flagicon|SCO}} Hawick
- 1896 {{flagicon|SCO}} Hawick
- 1895 {{flagicon|SCO}} Hawick
- 1894 {{flagicon|SCO}} Hawick 'A'
}}
'A' sides are shown where a club had entered two sides in the tournament
See also
- [https://jedforest.com/ Jed-Forest RFC]
- Borders Sevens Circuit
- Scottish Rugby Union