It has been held regularly since 2009 to determine Asia's best men's national team in the sport of rugby sevens.

In the first season, Japan took out the trophy after taking out the Borneo Sevens and finishing runner up in Shanghai.

Tournaments that have featured as ranking events in the Asian Sevens Series include: Results Notes: ^a Italics denotes tournaments that are non-ranking events not counting towards the annual series championship.

^b The inaugural 2009 series also included non-ranking events at Kish Island in Iran, Subic in the Philippines, and Brunei.

^c It was originally planned to use the 2015 Asian Sevens Series as the qualifier for the 2016 Olympics but the series clashed with the 2015 Rugby World Cup so a separate Asian Olympic qualifying tournament was held with the final stage hosted in Hong Kong.