2026 Super Rugby Pacific season
2026 Super Rugby Pacific season
The 2026 Super Rugby Pacific season is the 31st season of the Super Rugby, an annual rugby union competition organised by SANZAAR between teams from Australia, Fiji, New Zealand and a combined team from Samoa, Tonga and other Pacific Island nations. It is the 30th anniversary of the competition, having been established in (/wiki/1996Super12season). The fixtures were released on 28 August 2025, and features the return of Super Round in Christchurch, New Zealand.
2026 Super Rugby Pacific season
The defending champions are the Crusaders).
Format and competition
Unchanged from last season ((/wiki/2025SuperRugbyPacificseason)), eleven teams compete in a round-robin format, playing fourteen matches each (seven home, seven away), with two byes. Teams face four "rivals" twice and six others once. The top six advance to the Qualifying Finals: 1st vs 6th, 2nd vs 5th, and 3rd vs 4th. Winners and the highest-seeded losing team move to the semi-finals. Newly introduced for 2026, rather than losing one seeding rank as in the previous season, the highest-ranked losing team enters as the fourth seed, playing away in the Semi-finals, and, if they advance, in the Final.
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