2016 Super Rugby season

2016 Super Rugby season
Countries Argentina (1 team)
Australia (5 teams)
Japan (1 team)
New Zealand (5 teams)
South Africa (6 teams)
Tournament format(s) Round-robin and knockout
Official website Official site
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The 2016 Super Rugby season will be the 21st season of Super Rugby and the first season featuring an expanded 18-team format. It will also be the first season that teams outside Australia, New Zealand and South Africa will feature, with a team from Argentina and another team from Japan.[1]

Competition format

The 18 teams will be grouped geographically. There are two regional groups, each consisting of two conferences: the Australasian Group, with five teams in the Australian Conference and five teams in the New Zealand Conference and the South African Group, with six South African teams, one Argentinean team and one Japanese team split into a four-team Africa 1 Conference a four-team Africa 2 Conference.[2]

In the group stages, there will be 17 rounds of matches, where each team will play 15 matches and have two rounds of byes for a total of 135 matches.

The fixture schedule is still to be confirmed, but each team will play at least one match against all the other teams in their conference. They will also play one round of fixtures against all the teams in the other conference in their group, as well as games against one of the two conferences in the opposite group.

The top team of each of the four conferences will automatically qualify to the Quarter Finals. The next top three teams in the Australasian Group and the next top team in the South African group will also qualify to the Quarter Finals as wildcards. The conference winners will be seeded #1 to #4 for the Quarter Finals, in order of log points gained during the group stages, while the wildcards will be seeded as #5 to #8 in order of log points gained during the group stages.

In the Quarter Finals, the conference winners will host the first round of the finals, with the highest-seeded conference winner hosting the fourth-seeded wildcard entry, the second-seeded conference winner hosting the third-seeded wildcard entry, the third-seeded conference winner hosting the second-seeded wildcard entry and the fourth-seeded conference winner hosting the top-seed wildcard entry.

The Quarter Final winners will progress to the Semi-Finals, where the highest seed to reach the Semi-Finals will host the lowest seed and the second-seeded semi-finalist will host the third-seeded team.

The winner of the Semi-Finals will progress to the Final, at the venue of the highest-seeded team.

Standings

2016 Super Rugby standings

Overall standings
Pos Team P W D L PF PA PD TF TA TB LB Pts
1 New Zealand Blues 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2 Australia Brumbies 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3 South Africa Bulls 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
4 South Africa Cheetahs 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
5 New Zealand Chiefs 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
6 New Zealand Crusaders 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
7 Australia Force 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
8 New Zealand Highlanders 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
9 New Zealand Hurricanes 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
10 South Africa Kings 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
11 South Africa Lions 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
12 Australia Rebels 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
13 Australia Reds 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
14 South Africa Sharks 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
15 South Africa Stormers 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
16 Australia Waratahs 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
17 Argentina Argentina (Super Rugby) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
18 Japan Japan (Super Rugby) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Australasian Group
Pos Team P W D L PF PA PD TF TA TB LB Pts
1 New Zealand Blues 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2 Australia Brumbies 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3 New Zealand Chiefs 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
4 New Zealand Crusaders 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
5 Australia Force 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
6 New Zealand Highlanders 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
7 New Zealand Hurricanes 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
8 Australia Rebels 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
9 Australia Reds 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
10 Australia Waratahs 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
South African Group
Pos Team P W D L PF PA PD TF TA TB LB Pts
1 South Africa Bulls 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2 South Africa Cheetahs 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3 South Africa Kings 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
4 South Africa Lions 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
5 South Africa Sharks 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
6 South Africa Stormers 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
7 Argentina Argentina (Super Rugby) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
8 Japan Japan (Super Rugby) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Australia Australian Conference
Pos Team P W D L PF PA PD TF TA TB LB Pts
1 Brumbies 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2 Force 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3 Rebels 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
4 Reds 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
5 Waratahs 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
New Zealand New Zealand Conference
Pos Team P W D L PF PA PD TF TA TB LB Pts
1 Blues 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2 Chiefs 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3 Crusaders 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
4 Highlanders 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
5 Hurricanes 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
South Africa Africa 1 Conference
Pos Team P W D L PF PA PD TF TA TB LB Pts
1 tbd 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2 tbd 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3 tbd 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
4 Argentina Argentina (Super Rugby) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
South Africa Africa 2 Conference
Pos Team P W D L PF PA PD TF TA TB LB Pts
1 tbd 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2 tbd 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3 tbd 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
4 Japan Japan (Super Rugby) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
It has not yet been confirmed which South African teams will play in the Africa 1 Conference and which will play in the Africa 2 Conference.

Fixtures

The fixtures for the regular season are still to be confirmed.

Finals

Quarter Finals

Semi-Finals

Final

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Japan given the nod for Super Rugby". SANZAR. 24 October 2014. Retrieved 24 October 2014.
  2. ↑ "Outline of the Super Rugby competition structure" (PDF). All Blacks. 1 May 2014. Retrieved 1 May 2014.

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