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The 2023 Super Rugby Pacific final was a rugby union match contested between the Chiefs and the Crusaders at Waikato Stadium on 24 June 2023. It was the 28th Super Rugby final, staged to determine the premiers of the 2023 season. The match, attended by 25,000 spectators, was won by the Crusaders by a margin of five points, marking the franchise ...
List of Super Rugby champions. Twelve time champion Crusaders (red) and three-time champion Bulls competing for a line-out. Super Rugby is the major professional rugby union competition in the Southern Hemisphere. [1] The competition began as Super 12 in 1996, consisting of 12 teams from Australia, South Africa and New Zealand.
The final of Super Rugby Pacific on Saturday had the feeling of a familiar ritual. The Crusaders won the title for the 12th time since the tournament began and for the seventh time in the last ...
Super Rugby regional comps era: 13, Crusaders (vs Chiefs ) Super Rugby Pacific (12) era: 7, Crusaders (vs Blues ; Lowest aggregate. Super 12 era: 11, Reds 11–0 Hurricanes (27 February 1999), Sharks 5–6 Reds (24 April 2004) Super 14 era: 6, Highlanders 6–0 Crusaders (7 March 2009) Super Rugby (15) era: 16, Stormers 16–0 Bulls (5 July 2014)
History Beginnings: 1996–1997. The Crusaders franchise was created as one of five New Zealand teams in the Super 12. Originally named the Canterbury Crusaders, the Crusaders' franchise area encompassed the upper South Island of New Zealand (see Super Rugby franchise areas), and was formed from the Buller, Canterbury, Marlborough, Mid-Canterbury, Nelson Bays, South Canterbury, and West Coast ...
Scott Robertson ended his seven-year tenure as Crusaders head coach with a seventh title after his Christchurch-based team beat the Chiefs 25-20 in the final of Super Rugby Pacific on Saturday.
The Christchurch-based Crusaders have won seven Super Rugby titles in the last seven years but this year’s playoffs will be notable mainly for their absence. The Crusaders’ last-ditch bid to ...
2023 Super Rugby Pacific season Notes [ edit ] ^ The match between the Hurricanes and the Chiefs was originally scheduled to start at 19:05 local time, however due to floodlight updates at Sky Stadium , Wellington , kickoff was moved forward to 14:35 local time.