賀頤盛

English

Liam Doherty (Chinese: 賀頤盛; born 6 January 2000) is a Hong Kong rugby sevens forward who plays as an openside flanker for Hong Kong Scottish. Standing about 1.83 metres and weighing around 84 kilogrammes, he began his career as a winger before moving into the forwards and learning the role quickly; a hard-working member of the pack, he is known for his high work rate and his aggression at the breakdown, where he specialises in disrupting opponents' possession and organisation. Doherty was first called into the Hong Kong sevens squad in 2022 and travelled to Cape Town, South Africa, that year for the Rugby World Cup Sevens, his first taste of World Cup-level competition; he also played in the Asia Sevens Series that season. In 2023 he was selected for the Hong Kong, China team at the Hangzhou Asian Games, where he became the key figure in the final: in the first half he broke two tackles and put scrum-half Cado Lee in under the posts, and just forty-eight seconds after the restart he ran in a try of his own, Hong Kong beating Korea 14-7 to take gold. He was named man of the match in the final, and head coach Jevon Groves singled him out for praise for the way he had adapted to the forwards. He has continued to be named in the Hong Kong sevens squad, including for Asia Sevens Series events, and is regarded as part of a new generation of forwards coming into the side. He made his Hong Kong Sevens debut in 2023, one of five players handed a tournament debut that year, and in 2026 he was again named in the Hong Kong, China squad for the Asia Rugby Emirates Sevens Series. As his international career is still relatively young, public information on his early training and fuller domestic record remains limited.