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Rugby union tournament 2024 Heartland Championship Date 17 August 2024 (2024-08-17) –19 October 2024 (2024-10-19) Countries New Zealand Final positions Champions Thames Valley (Meads Cup) King Country (Lochore Cup) Runner-up Mid Canterbury (Meads Cup) West Coast (Lochore Cup) Tournament statistics Matches played 54 ← 2023 2025 → The 2024 Heartland Championship, was the 18th edition of ...
It is organised by New Zealand Rugby (NZR) and since 2021, it has been known as the Bunnings Heartland Championship after Bunnings, its naming rights sponsor. A concurrent women's tournament is also held, the Farah Palmer Cup. Following the 2005 season the league was restructured into a two-tier competition. The Heartland Championship would ...
The Heartland Championship is not fully professional. Like the Bunnings Warehouse NPC, the Heartland Championship is also a nationwide competition. The winners do not gain promotion to the NPC, so the Heartland Championship teams have remained the same since 2006. The Championship generally runs from late August to late October.
Rugby union tournament 2023 Heartland Championship Date 12 August 2023 (2023-08-12) –14 October 2023 (2023-10-14) Countries New Zealand Final positions Champions South Canterbury (Meads Cup) West Coast (Lochore Cup) Runner-up Whanganui (Meads Cup) Poverty Bay (Lochore Cup) Tournament statistics Matches played 54 ← 2022 2024 → The 2023 Heartland Championship, was the 17th edition of the ...
The 2024 Bunnings NPC season was the 19th season of New Zealand's provincial rugby union competition, the National Provincial Championship, since it turned professional in 2006. It involved the top 14 provincial rugby unions of New Zealand.
There was no Heartland Championship held in 2020 due to the COVID-19 restrictions. The tournament included a round-robin regular season in which the twelve teams played eight games each. In past seasons the top eight teams from the regular season would then advance to the semifinals: The teams ranked first to fourth play for the Meads Cup
It is contested during the Heartland Championship. It was first awarded in 2006, ... The Lochore Cup winner is determined in four-team single-elimination tournament ...
Additionally, Bunnings would support the Heartland Championship, Super Rugby Aotearoa under-20 competition, and the Farah Palmer Cup. [ 30 ] In March 2024, the NPC signed a 4-year sponsorship deal with insurance firm Gallagher as an "official national partner" which sees their logo displayed on team jerseys, in stadiums, and during televised ...