New Zealand Super Rugby Teams Map

Super rugby is a professional men s rugby union international club competition involving teams from argentina australia new zealand and south africa.

New zealand super rugby teams map. This certainly was no easy feat but the writers for superrugby co nz have had. Building on various southern hemisphere competitions dating back to the south pacific championship in 1986 with teams from a number of southern nations the super rugby started as the super 12 in the 1996 season with 12 teams from 3 nations. If super rugby aotearoa which was played over 10 weeks when super rugby was scrapped mid march comprises just 5 teams in 2021 the best option may be to play 3 rounds inside a 16 week window. The nz herald reported yesterday that super rugby aotearoa 2021 will be a six team competition if new zealand rugby s board sign off this week on a proposal to include a pasifika team.

Super rugby aotearoa is a 10 week competition involving new zealand s five super rugby clubs the blues chiefs hurricanes crusaders and highlanders playing each other home and away. Tuipulotu s rise continues with north captaincy. 4 03pm 01 october 2020. It consists of 14 teams divided equally between the premiership division and the championship division.

The mitre 10 cup is the second highest professional level of rugby union in new zealand after super rugby the mitre 10 cup s 11 week regular and finals season runs from two weeks after super rugby ends to. The list does not include women s teams local club or school teams inactive teams such as the north and south island teams or non geographic representative teams such as the new zealand universities marist or. By liam napier nz herald. New zealand super teams.

The mitre 10 cup is a rugby union professional competition for new zealand unions. The original member countries australia new zealand and south africa all have several regional franchises while the expansion countries argentina and japan have one franchise each. This is the list of the main first class rugby union teams in new zealand including national teams super rugby teams mitre 10 cup teams and heartland championship teams. The super rugby competition in rugby union including teams from argentina australia japan new zealand and south africa is based on a franchise system of teams.