The Malaysia Sevens is an annual

rugby union sevens Rugby sevens (commonly known simply as sevens, and originally seven-a-side rugby) is a variant of rugby union in which teams are made up of seven players playing seven-minute halves, instead of the usual 15 players playing 40-minute halves. R ...

tournament contested by national teams. The event was first hosted as a leg of the

IRB World Sevens Series The SVNS, known as the HSBC SVNS for sponsorship reasons, is an annual series of international rugby sevens tournaments run by World Rugby featuring national sevens teams. Organised for the first time in the 1999–2000 season as the IRB World ...

2001 The year's most prominent event was the September 11 attacks against the United States by al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror. The United States led a Participan ...

and

2002 The effects of the September 11 attacks of the previous year had a significant impact on the affairs of 2002. The war on terror was a major political focus. Without settled international law, several nations engaged in anti-terror operation ...

. The Malaysia sevens was then made as an official event in the

Asian Sevens Series The Asia Rugby Sevens Series is an annual series of regional rugby sevens tournaments run by Asia Rugby featuring national sevens teams. It has been held regularly since 2009 to determine Asia's best men's national team in the sport of rugby seve ...

between 2009 and 2014, with the event first being held in Borneo before being moved back to Kuala Lumpur in 2013.

Results

Key:
''Blue border on the left indicates tournaments included in the World Rugby Sevens Series.''

References

{{World sevens series Former World Rugby Sevens Series tournaments Asian Seven Series International rugby union competitions hosted by Malaysia Rugby sevens competitions in Asia Recurring sporting events established in 2001 Recurring sporting events disestablished in 2014 2001 establishments in Malaysia 2014 disestablishments in Malaysia