{{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 = {{start date and age|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).<ref>{{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}}</ref>
The Jed-Forest Sevens are traditionally the last tournament of the Kings of the Sevens competition.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.k7s.co.uk/jedforest-7s/|title=Jedforest 7s - Kings of the 7s|publisher=}}</ref>
2024's Starrett's Jed-Forest Sevens will be played on 18th May.<ref>{{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}}</ref>
==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.<ref>{{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}}</ref><ref>{{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=|access-date=23 April 2019|archive-date=20 April 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190420100126/http://iainthepict.blogspot.com/2012/04/worlds-first-rugby-sevens-tournament.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>
==Sponsorship== The Sevens tournament is now sponsored by Starrett UK. It was sponsored by RJT, Mainetti and Tennents before that.
==Past winners== {{columns-list|colwidth=15em| *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
==References ==
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Category:Rugby sevens competitions in Scotland Category:Rugby union in the Scottish Borders