The 2023 Super Rugby Pacific season (known as

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, an annual

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competition organised by

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between teams from Australia,

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, New Zealand,

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and

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. The tournament will feature a similar schedule to the

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season, with 91 matches played in a round-robin followed by knockout format. The season is expected to run from 24 February, with the final to be played on 18 June, culminating before the start of the 2023 mid-year international window. The defending champions are the , who won their 11th title in

. The will play all their home matches in

in 2023. Having been based in Australia for the 2022 season, due to complications surrounding the

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, splitting their matches between Churchill Park, Lautoka and

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. will continue to be based in

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, New Zealand, but will play a match at

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in 2023. The Waratahs will also have a new home venue in 2023, moving to the newly built Allianz Stadium.

Competition format

Similarly to the 2023 season, the 12 participating teams will play 14 regular season games: playing each other once in a home-and-away format for 11 games, with the remaining 3 games to be played with an emphasis on derby matches; with the Fijian Drua associated with the Australian sides and Moana Pasifika with the New Zealand sides. It is likely that the Drua and Moana Pasifika will also develop a rivalry, both being Pacific Island teams. The top eight teams at the conclusion of the regular season qualified for the play-offs. For the quarterfinals, the first-ranked team played the eighth-ranked team, the second-ranked team played the seventh-ranked, the third-ranked played the sixth-ranked and the fourth-ranked team played the fifth-ranked. The quarterfinal winners progressed to the Semifinal, and the winners of the semifinals advanced to the final. The higher ranked team hosted each playoff match. The 2023 season will once again feature a ''Super Round'', again staged in

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at AAMI Park. All 6 fixtures of Round 2 will be held at the stadium between Friday 3 March and Sunday 5 March.

Standings

Round-by-round

The table below shows each team's progression throughout the season. For each round, their cumulative points total is shown with the overall log position in brackets:

Matches

The fixtures for the 2023 Super Rugby Pacific competition were released on 25 September 2022.

Players

Squads

The following squads have been named. Players listed in ''italics'' denote non-original squad members:

References

External links

* Super Rugby websites: *
SANZAAR Super Rugby
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Australia Super Rugby
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New Zealand Super Rugby
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