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It involved the top 14 provincial rugby unions of New Zealand. For sponsorship reasons, the competition is known as the Bunnings NPC. The regular season began on 9 August 2024, when 2023 champions Taranaki hosted Counties Manukau. The final took place on 26 October 2024, and saw Wellington beat Bay of Plenty 23–20 after extra time. The ...
The National Provincial Championship would include professional and semi-professional players, and consist of the top fourteen financial and sporting best performing regional teams. For sponsorship reasons it was rebranded as the Air New Zealand Cup. The remaining teams would form a breakaway amateur competition known as the Heartland ...
Rugby team Taranaki Official TRFU emblem Union Taranaki Rugby Football Union Nickname(s) Bulls Founded 1885 ; 140 years ago (1885) Location Westown, New Plymouth, New Zealand Ground(s) Yarrow Stadium CEO Mike Sandle Coach(es) Neil Barnes Captain(s) Kaylum Boshier Most appearances Kieran Crowley (199) Top scorer Kieran Crowley (1,723) Most tries Kieran Crowley (64) League(s) Bunnings NPC 2024 ...
The union was originally established in 1879, with the National Provincial Championship established in 1976. They now play in the reformed National Provincial Championship competition. They play their home games at Apollo Projects Stadium in Christchurch in the Canterbury region. The team is affiliated with the Crusaders Super Rugby franchise ...
Otago Rugby Football Union Sport Rugby union Jurisdiction Otago Abbreviation ORFU Founded 1881 ; 143 years ago (1881) Affiliation New Zealand Rugby Headquarters Dunedin President Roy Daniels Official website www.orfu.co.nz The Otago Rugby Football Union is the official governing body of rugby union for the Otago region of New Zealand. The union is based in the city of Dunedin, and its home ...
Map of all provincial unions within New Zealand. Rugby union in New Zealand is structured into four tiers. The top tier is composed of the national representative teams, with the men's team – known as the All Blacks – and the women's team – known as the Black Ferns, at the top, followed by other representative sides such as the Junior All Blacks and Māori All Blacks.
The Canterbury team has won the National Provincial Championship, Air New Zealand Cup, and the ITM Cup 14 times including a "six-peat" from 2008 to 2013 – with five in the National Provincial Championship, two in the Air New Zealand Cup, five in the ITM Cup and one in the Mitre 10 Cup. Their most recent victory was the 2017 Mitre 10 Cup. [2]
The Makos good form continued into 2014 and Scott made 9 appearances to help the men from Nelson reach the final of the ITM Cup Premiership where they went down 36-32 to Taranaki. [4] Despite this disappointment, Scott was signed to a Super Rugby contract by Australian franchise the Western Force ahead of the 2015 Super Rugby season .