The Yellow Sea Cup (simplified Chinese: 黄海橄榄球杯; traditional Chinese: 黃海橄欖球杯; pinyin: Huánghǎi Gǎnlǎnqiú Bēi), (formerly known as the China Pub Company Yellow Sea Cup) is an annual rugby union competition currently involving clubs from four cities in China and South Korea.

For nearly 10 years the expatriate club teams in Seoul, Beijing and Shanghai had found it difficult to play regular rugby games.

With this background, the Chairman of the Beijing Devils Rugby Club, Simon Drakeford, and the President of the Seoul Survivors Rugby Club, Ted Gray were chatting at the annual Manila 10s tournament in March 2004 and quickly agreed we needed to organise a tournament.

They quickly brought in one of the founders of the Shanghai Hairy Crabs Rugby Club, Mark Thomas and started hatching plans for a league style tournament.

Euan “Scottish” Littleford from the Seoul Survivors first suggested the name the Yellow Sea Cup.

The honour of scoring the first Yellow Sea Cup try went to longtime Seoul Survivor Canadian Brian Bruckman.

On the final weekend, the Beijing Devils traveled to Seoul knowing that if they won and secured a bonus point, they would win the league.

In the fifth game of the year, the Beijing Devils once again traveled to Seoul in the autumn knowing that a win would secure the cup.

The Shanghai Hairy Crabs won by 4 points and handed their arch rivals Beijing the Cup for the second year in a row.

After 3 successful years, the founders of the tournament felt that it would be a good time to try to bring some new teams into the league.

One of the few issues that had arisen in the tournament was that the clubs were finding it hard to persuade players to be visiting the same city each year.

The China Pub Company generously agreed to sponsor the tournament for a minimum of 5 years.

A surprising result was played out in Guangzhou where the Beijing Devils lost out to the Rams in a hard-fought game.

In a close and often tense game the ex Taipei Baboons player Adrian scored underneath the posts to take the Crabs into half time up 10-8.

Next came the final round where Shanghai had to overcome their voodoo in Beijing by beating them to retain the cup.

Having gone 9-3 down it was looking tough, but the Crabs class and power overcame a tiring Devils pack to push to victory and complete an historic double, and underline their often quoted title as 'Best Team in China'.