Super Rugby

Super Rugby is a professional men’s rugby union international club competition involving teams from Argentina, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa. Building on various Southern Hemisphere competitions dating back to the South Pacific Championship in 1986, with teams from a number of southern nations, the Super Rugby started as the Super 12 in the 1996 season with 12 teams from 3 nations: Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. The Super 12 was established by SANZAAR after the sport became professional in 1995. With the top players from nations that represent 16 of the 24 top-three finishes in the history of the Rugby World Cup, the competition is widely regarded as rugby union’s toughest provincial competition

ACT Brumbies 2020 year in review: COVID-19, bushfires, and a new-look Super Rugby

ACT Brumbies 2020 year in review: COVID-19, bushfires, and a new-look Super Rugby

"I've been in rugby for 25 years, and no, I've never seen anything like it." The Brumbies' campaign started when they were forced to relocate to Newcastle for pre-season training as Canberra came to grips with bushfire smoke causing the world's poorest air quality.

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