Super Rugby News

All Blacks, Chiefs and Bay of Plenty loose forward Sam Cane has recommitted to New Zealand Rugby, signing a new deal through to 2025.

All Blacks loose forward Ardie Savea has signed a four-year deal with New Zealand Rugby (NZR).

Australia has launched its bid to host Rugby World Cup 2027 unveiling the country’s ‘Game On’ campaign in Sydney.

SANZAAR has announced that The Rugby Championship 2020 will be played in Australia, in November and December this year.

Ireland fly-half Jonny Sexton has won World Rugby's Player of the Year edging out All Blacks Rieko Ioane and Beauden Barrett, and Boks Faf de Klerk and Malcolm Marx.

World Rugby has announced the match official appointments for a bumper programme of 45 men’s international matches during the November period.

The squads have been announced by the Six Nations teams heading south for this year’s June international matches.

A mixture of world-class experience and exciting younger talent are the features of the All Blacks squad for the June series against France.

SANZAAR is planning a secure and exciting future for Super Rugby and The Rugby Championship. Recent media reports on the future are unsubstantiated speculation and simply wrong.

All Blacks and Crusaders prop Wyatt Crockett has announced his retirement from international rugby with this year also to be his last season of Super Rugby with the Crusaders.

 

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).

New Zealand made a statement when they dominated Argentina 39-0 in the Rugby Championship clash on the Gold Coast on Sunday.