Gala Sevens

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Run by: Gala RFC

Where: Netherdale, Galashiels

Winners play for: Border Memorial Trophy

Notes: First played 12 April 1884. Selkirk Cricket Club ran their Rugby Union Sevens tournament on 17 May 1884.

Past winners

  • 2022 Gala
  • 2021 Melrose
  • 2020 no tournament – coronavius pandemic
  • 2019  Edinburgh Accies
  • 2018  Jed-Forest
  • 2017  Watsonians
  • 2016  Watsonians
  • 2015  Gala
  • 2014  Melrose
  • 2013  Gala
  • 2012  Jed-Forest
  • 2011  Melrose
  • 2010  Melrose
  • 2009  Selkirk
  • 2008  Heriots
  • 2007  Hawick
  • 2006  Boroughmuir
  • 2005  Watsonians
  • 2004  Royal Scots
  • 2003  Watsonians
  • 2002  Royal Scots
  • 2001  Kelso
  • 2000  Melrose
  • 1999  Melrose
  • 1998  Glasgow Hawks
  • 1997  Watsonians
  • 1996  Watsonians
  • 1995  Gala
  • 1994  Gala
  • 1993  Gala
  • 1992  Hawick
  • 1991  Fiji
  • 1990  Saltires
  • 1989  Saltires
  • 1988  Saltires
  • 1987  Melrose
  • 1986  Hawick
  • 1985  Kelso
  • 1984  Richmond
  • 1983  Kelso
  • 1982  Gala
  • 1981  Kelso
  • 1980  Stewarts Melville
  • 1979  Hawick
  • 1978  Hawick
  • 1977  Gala
  • 1976  Stewarts Melville
  • 1975  Orrell
  • 1974  Kelso
  • 1973  Heriots
  • 1972  Gala
  • 1971  Gala
  • 1970  Gala
  • 1969  Gala
  • 1968  Hawick
  • 1967  Hawick
  • 1966  Hawick
  • 1965  Loughborough Colleges
  • 1964  Cardiff
  • 1963  Gala
  • 1962  Melrose
  • 1961  Hawick
  • 1960  Hawick
  • 1959  Hawick
  • 1958  Hawick
  • 1957  Blackheath
  • 1956  Hawick
  • 1955  Langholm
  • 1954  Gala
  • 1953  Melrose
  • 1952  Stewart’s College FP
  • 1951  Langholm
  • 1950  Glasgow HSFP
  • 1949  Hawick
  • 1948  Kelso
  • 1947  Hawick
  • 1946  Hawick
  • 1942-1945 Second World War
  • 1941  Kelso
  • 1940  Hawick
  • 1939  Glasgow Academicals
  • 1938  Melrose
  • 1937  Kelso
  • 1936  Kelso
  • 1935  Hawick
  • 1934  Gala
  • 1933  Hawick
  • 1932  Hawick
  • 1931  Hawick
  • 1930  Gala
  • 1929  Gala
  • 1928  Hawick
  • 1927  Hawick
  • 1926  Hawick
  • 1925  Kelso
  • 1924  Hawick
  • 1923  Hawick
  • 1922  Gala
  • 1921  Jed-Forest
  • 1920  Gala
  • 1919  Royal HSFP
  • 1918 First World War
  • 1917 October Edinburgh University O.T.C.
  • 1917 May Gala Abbotsford
  • 1916 4th Kings Own Scottish Borderers
  • 1915 No tournament – First World War
  • 1914  Gala
  • 1913  Gala
  • 1912  Hawick
  • 1911  Hawick
  • 1910  Hawick
  • 1909  Hawick
  • 1908  Gala
  • 1907  Gala
  • 1906  Hawick
  • 1905  Watsonians
  • 1904  Hawick
  • 1903  Hawick
  • 1902  Hawick
  • 1901  Hawick
  • 1900  Hawick
  • 1899  Jed-Forest
  • 1898  Hawick
  • 1897  Hawick
  • 1896  Hawick
  • 1895  Hawick
  • 1894  Hawick
  • 1893  Hawick
  • 1892  Jed-Forest
  • 1891  Gala
  • 1890  Gala
  • 1889  Melrose
  • 1888  Gala
  • 1887  Gala
  • 1886  Melrose
  • 1885  Tynedale
  • 1884  Gala

Tournaments

19 August 2023

20 August 2022

Group A

Gala 38 Hawick 0

Gala 19 2Scots Assaye 7

Hawick 7 2Scots Assaye 36

Gala top Group A

Group B

Presidents VII 12 2Scots Baba 31

Presidents VII 17 Kelso 24

2Scots Baba 37 Kelso 0

2Scots Baba top Group B

Group C

Melrose 31 Watsonians 15

Melrose 41 GAC 5

Watsonians 31 GAC 5

Melrose top Group C

Group D

Selkirk 7 Edinburgh Academicals 17

Selkirk 0 Peebles 22

Edinburgh Academicals 14 Peebles 15

Peebles top Group D

Semi-Finals:

Gala 26 2Scots Baba 14

Melrose 19 Peebles 24 (after extra time)

Final:

Gala 40 Peebles 19

21 August 2021

Group A

Gala 33 2SCOTS Barbarians 5

Watsonians 29 GAC 0

2SCOTS Barbarians 28 GAC 0

Watsonians 7 Gala 35

Gala 45 GAC 5

2SCOTS Barbarians 31 Watsonians 15

Group B

2SCOTS Assaye 33 Kelso 0

Selkirk 0 Melrose 45

Kelso 22 Selkirk 0

Melrose 24 2SCOTS Assaye 17

Selkirk 0 2SCOTS Assaye 46

Melrose 40 Kelso 5

Semi-Finals

Gala 29 2SCOTS Assaye 12

Melrose 19 2SCOTS Barbarians 7

Final

Gala 17 Melrose 21

Report:

3 April 1976

https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=GGgVawPscysC&dat=19760405&printsec=frontpage&hl=en

1 April 1972

https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=GGgVawPscysC&dat=19720403&printsec=frontpage&hl=en

1 April 1967

https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=GGgVawPscysC&dat=19670403&printsec=frontpage&hl=en

4 April 1964

https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=GGgVawPscysC&dat=19640406&printsec=frontpage&hl=en

5 April 1958

https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=GGgVawPscysC&dat=19580407&printsec=frontpage&hl=en

2 April 1949

https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=GGgVawPscysC&dat=19490404&printsec=frontpage&hl=en

5 April 1947

https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=GGgVawPscysC&dat=19470407&printsec=frontpage&hl=en

https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000469/19160427/007/0002

1917 (May)

https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002783/19170511/088/0004

1917 (October)

https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002162/19171005/045/0003

https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000469/19171004/063/0004

22 April 1916

https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000954/19160428/008/0001

Teams

20 August 2022

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