Super Rugby News

Adriaan Strauss marked his record-breaking appearance with a hat-trick as the Bulls beat the Stormers 33-23 at Loftus on Saturday.

The Super Rugby Team of the Week has representatives from 9 of the teams with the Chiefs and Jaguares leading the way with three players each. 

The Stormers secured back-to-back Super Rugby victories with a hard-fought 25-19 win over the Reds at Newlands in Cape Town on Saturday.

The Super Rugby Team of the Week has representatives from 10 of the teams with the Chiefs leading the way with three players, Damian McKenzie, Anton Lienert-Brown and Brodie Rettalick. The All Black lock Retallick was Player of the Week after he put in a huge shift against the Bulls.

The Stormers ended a three-match losing streak when they claimed a deserved 37-20 victory over the Blues in Cape Town on Saturday.

Kicking for goal is an important part of keeping the scoreboard ticking over and ensuring try scoring gets full reward. Who is leading the way?

The Team of the Week is dominated by the Highlanders and Sharks following their comprehensive Week #4 wins. Player of the Week is Sharks winger Makazole Mapimpi who scored two tries and beat seven defenders. 

The Highlanders made a winning return to Super Rugby action when they claimed a 33-15 victory over the Stormers in Dunedin on Friday.

The Team of the Week contains players from nine different teams including four Crusaders and two from each of the Sharks, Stormers and Blues. Player of the Week is Cobus Wiese whose work rate against the Crusaders was immense.

The Crusaders kept intact their unbeaten home record against the Stormers with a 45-28 victory at AMI Park in Christchurch on Saturday.

SA Rugby has confirmed that Rassie Erasmus will spearhead a streamlined but experienced Springbok management team until the end of the 2023 Rugby World Cup.

The Team of the Week contains players from nine different teams including four Sunwolves, two Waratahs and the lock pairing from the Bulls. Player of the Week is Lions flyer Aphiwe Dyantyi.

Ned Hanigan's last-minute five-pointer secured the Waratahs a hard-fought 34-27 victory over the Stormers in Sydney.

SANZAAR has announced the referee appointments for Week 2 of the 2018 Super Rugby season.

The Stormers got their Super Rugby campaign off to a winning start when they beat the Jaguares 28-20 in Cape Town.

SANZAAR has announced the referee appointments for Week 1 of the 2018 Super Rugby season.

Super Rugby and The Rugby Championship will this season adopt the Law Amendments that were announced by World Rugby in July 2017 prior to the start of the 2017/2018 northern hemisphere season. The amendments relate to the scrum (Law 20), tackle (Law 15) and ruck (Law 16).

SANZAAR has announced the referee team that will officiate the 2018 Super Rugby season. With the Super Rugby tournament format reducing to 120 regular season matches this season the referee team has been reduced from 19 to 17 referees. 

The 2018 15-team Super Rugby tournament kicks-off in four weeks time on Saturday 17 February in South Africa when the Stormers host the Jaguares in Cape Town. 

 

SANZAAR has announced the match schedule for the restructured  2018 Super Rugby tournament that comprises a 15-team three-conference format.