2023 Super Rugby Pacific 

The 2023 Super Rugby Pacific competition was the 2nd year of competition following a new joint venture partnership between Rugby Australia (RA) and New Zealand Rugby (NZR).

The 12-team Super Rugby Pacific competition saw 2 Pacific teams, the Fijian Drua and Moana Pasifika, who joined the five Australian and five New Zealand sides.

Teams will play 8 other teams once and 3 teams twice. This will allow for a focus on local derby matches.

At the end of the regular season the top 8 teams will qualify for quarter-finals followed by semi-finals and the final.

There will be a number of law innovations in place for the 2023 Super Rugby Pacific competition. These law innovations, agreed by teams and with the support of World Rugby were designed to make the game more entertaining for fans and safer and more enjoyable for players. They include:

  • The referee will put a stopwatch shot clock on kickers who will have 90 seconds to kick a conversion from the time a try is awarded, and 60 seconds for penalties, from the time the referee signals a shot at goal.
  • Match officials will expect lineouts and scrums to be formed within 30 seconds of the respective marks being set, and the ball to be used within 5 seconds of a ruck being formed. 
  • TMOs only ‘interrupt’ play to investigate serious, clear and obvious incidents of dangerous play missed by the Match Official team. 
  • Referees can utilise the TMO to make a Yellow Card decision, but any extended TMO video reviews will take place once the player has left the field, not before the Yellow Card is issued. 
  • The TMO will have 8 minutes to either uphold a 10-minute Yellow Card decision or upgrade it to a 20-minute Red Card, in which case the player will not return to the field, but can still be replaced. 
  • Referees will now also have the power to issue a full Red Card for deliberate foul play, in which case the player will not return to the field and cannot be replaced.
  • Only penalize a clear and deliberate attempt to knock the ball forward, without trying to regain possession. Can be escalated to yellow and/or penalty try if it denies a probable try or is judged to be an extremely cynical action denying a clear line break opportunity. If the actions of the Player demonstrated no intent to catch the ball, it should be deemed a deliberate knock on and sanctioned with a penalty only. Yellow Cards would be reserved for extremely cynical actions that prevented a clear try scoring opportunity or line break opportunity.
  • Removing designated water breaks (except under Heat Guidelines).
  • Defending halfback will not be allowed past the midline of the scrum
  • There will be a 10 minute Golden Point period in the event of a tied scoreline at the end of normal time

   

Super Pacific
Team Played Won Lost Drawn For Against BP Points
Chiefs 13 12 1 444 242 6 54
Crusaders 14 10 4 457 278 8 48
Blues 14 10 4 446 292 6 46
Brumbies 14 10 4 474 393 6 46
Hurricanes 14 9 5 480 338 5 41
Waratahs 13 6 7 363 375 7 31
Fijian Drua 14 6 8 370 492 2 26
Reds 14 5 9 391 451 4 24
Highlanders 14 5 9 362 459 4 24
Western Force 13 5 8 327 451 2 22
Melbourne Rebels 14 4 10 406 484 5 21
Moana Pasifika 13 13 321 586 4 4


2023 Super Rugby Pacific Fixtures

February 24

 

February 25

  

  

   

  

March 3

   

March 4

  

March 5

  

   

March 10

  

March 11

  

  

  

  

March 17  

March 18

  

  

March 20

   

  

March 24  

    

March 25   

  

  

March 26

  

March 31

  

April 1

   

   

April 2

  

April 7

  

April 8

    

   

April 14

  

April 15

  

   

April 21

  

April 22

    

   

April 28

   

April 29

  

  

  

  

May 5

May 6

  

  

   

May 7

  

May 12

  

May 13

  

  

May 14

  

May 19

  

May 20

  

  

  

  

May 26

  

May 27

 

  

  

    

June 2

  

June 3

Crusaders

Waratahs

Moana Pasifika

Highlanders

Reds

Western Force

  

Crusaders

Melbourne Rebels

Moana Pasifika

Fijian Drua

Blues

Western Force

  

Chiefs

Melbourne Rebels

Fijian Drua

Hurricanes

Brumbies

Western Force

  

Hurricanes

Chiefs

Blues

Brumbies

Highlanders

Reds

  

Crusaders

Waratahs

Highlanders

Moana Pasifika

Melbourne Rebels

Blues

  

Moana Pasifika

Reds

Fijian Drua

Chiefs

Brumbies

Hurricanes

  

Crusaders

Reds

Highlanders

Melbourne Rebels

  

Moana Pasifika

Brumbies

Hurricanes

Waratahs

  

Chiefs

Melbourne Rebels

Blues

Western Force

  

Hurricanes

Waratahs

Fijian Drua

Moana Pasifika

Chiefs

Reds

  

Highlanders

Fijian Drua

Crusaders

Blues

Reds

Melbourne Rebels

  

Chiefs

Western Force

Hurricanes

Crusaders

Waratahs

Brumbies

  

Moana Pasifika

Reds

Highlanders

Chiefs

Waratahs

Western Force

  

Highlanders

Melbourne Rebels

Fijian Drua

Crusaders

Blues

Brumbies

  

Blues

Brumbies

Fijian Drua

Hurricanes

Waratahs

Western Force

v

v

v

v

v

v

 

v

v

v

v

v

v

 

v

v

v

v

v

v

  

v

v

v

v

v

v

 

v

v

v

v

v

v

  

v

v

v

v

v

v

  

v

v

v

v

  

v

v

v

v

 

v

v

v

v

   

v

v

v

v

v

v

 

v

v

v

v

v

v

  

v

v

v

v

v

v

  

v

v

v

v

v

v

  

v

v

v

v

v

v

  

v

v

v

v

v

v

Chiefs

Brumbies

Fijian Drua

Blues

Hurricanes

Melbourne Rebels

  

Highlanders

Hurricanes

Chiefs

Waratahs

Brumbies

Reds

  

Highlanders

Waratahs

Crusaders

Blues

Reds

Moana Pasifika

  

Waratahs

Melbourne Rebels

Crusaders

Moana Pasifika

Western Force

Fijian Drua

  

Brumbies

Chiefs

Fijian Drua

Hurricanes

Reds

Western Force

  

Highlanders

Crusaders

Melbourne Rebels

Blues

Waratahs

Western Force

  

Moana Pasifika

Brumbies

Hurricanes

Blues

  

Reds

Fijian Drua

Chiefs

Western Force

  

Fijian Drua

Crusaders

Waratahs

Highlanders

  

Brumbies

Highlanders

Blues

Melbourne Rebels

Crusaders

Western Force

  

Chiefs

Hurricanes

Western Force

Moana Pasifika

Waratahs

Brumbies

  

Reds

Fijian Drua

Moana Pasifika 

Blues

Melbourne Rebels

Highlanders

  

Crusaders

Blues

Melbourne Rebels

Hurricanes

Fijian Drua

Brumbies

  

Reds

Western Force

Moana Pasifika

Waratahs

Hurricanes

Chiefs

  

Highlanders

Melbourne Rebels

Reds

Crusaders

Moana Pasifika 

Chiefs

Christchurch

Sydney

Auckland

Dunedin

Townsville

Perth

   

Melbourne

Melbourne

Melbourne

Melbourne

Melbourne

Melbourne

  

Hamilton

Melbourne

Lautoka

Wellington

Canberra

Perth

  

Wellington

Hamilton

Auckland

Canberra

Invercargill

Brisbane

  

Christchurch

Sydney

Dunedin

Auckland

Melbourne

Auckland

  

Auckland

Brisbane

Suva

Hamilton

Canberra

Palmerston North

  

Christchurch

Brisbane

Dunedin

Melbourne

  

Samoa

Canberra

Wellington

Sydney

  

Hamilton

Melbourne

Auckland

Perth

  

Wellington

Sydney

Lautoka

Auckland

Hamilton

Brisbane

  

Dunedin

Suva

Christchurch

Auckland

Townsville

Melbourne

  

New Plymouth

Perth

Wellington

Christchurch

Sydney

Canberra

  

Auckland

Brisbane

Dunedin

Hamilton

Sydney

Perth

  

Dunedin

Melbourne

Lautoka

Christchurch

Auckland

Canberra

  

Auckland

Canberra

Suva

Wellington

Sydney

Perth

10

25

34

20

13

34

  

52

33

29

17

20

20

  

28

34

25

19

23

21

  

34

44

28

62

43

27

  

35

14

57

0

40

30

  

17

12

38

20

40

45

  

38

24

14

17

  

28

43

17

36

  

50

27

55

30

  

32

21

14

33

34

31

  

28

27

48

31

24

26

  

22

34

71

15

38

48

  

7

26

20

23

32

34

  

35

52

47

42

36

21

  

16

33

41

27

24

19

31

31

36

60

47

27

  

15

39

52

46

25

71

  

7

27

24

25

17

18

  

17

25

34

36

35

24

  

17

24

24

59

34

17

  

45

25

28

13

36

42

  

21

52

29

54

  

40

28

33

16

  

17

43

21

17

  

27

20

30

43

24

17

  

52

24

13

30

32

33

  

25

14

22

3

20

32

  

41

45

17

12

18

19

  

30

14

46

18

25

31

  

9

17

17

26

33

43

 

Quarter-Finals

June 9

June 10

Blues

Chiefs

Crusaders

Brumbies

v

v

v

v

Waratahs

Reds

Fijian Drua

Hurricanes

Auckland

Hamilton

Christchurch

Canberra

41

29

49

37

12

20

8

33

Semi-Finals

June 16

June 17

Crusaders

Chiefs

v

v

Blues

Brumbies

Christchurch

Hamilton

52

19

15

6

Final

June 24

Chiefs

v

Crusaders

Hamilton

20

25
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