Rugby’s Kings of 7s return for 32nd season at Peebles
Rugby’s Kings of the 7s competition returns for a 32nd season at Peebles this coming Saturday.
That’s the 11th tournament of the year and the first of ten making up the coming campaign, one down on last year due to Berwick’s April event no longer counting towards the 1994-founded contest’s standings.
Saturday’s sevens at the Gytes, starting at 2pm, will be contested in four pools of three, with semi-finals and a final following.
The hosts and a second-string home side will share a pool with Gala, and that’s one of three groups offering Borders derbies, the others being defending Kings of the 7s champions Melrose going up against Selkirk and a Royal Scots Dragoon Guards squad and Kelso taking on Jed-Forest and Edinburgh’s Boroughmuir.
Hawick are the only Borderers in their pool and they’ve been drawn with two capital city sides, Edinburgh Academical and Watsonians.
Entry is £15 for adults, £12 for pensioners and free for under-18s.
Melrose head west to the Gytes looking for their third Peebles Sevens win on the bounce and 16th all together after beating Kelso 10-5 in 2025’s final and Jed-Forest 24-12 the year before.
Dates have yet to be set for the following nine rounds of this season’s competition, but if it follows the same sequence as last season’s, Gala’s sevens are likely to be next up in April, with Accies hosting 2027’s finale next May.