The 2024 Super Rugby Pacific season (known as Shop N Save Super Rugby Pacific in Fiji and

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Super Rugby Pacific in New Zealand) is the 29th season of

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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 and a combined team from

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and other

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nations. The defending champions are the , who won their twelfth title in

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. The season is scheduled to run from Friday 23 February 2024, culminating in a final expected to be played on Saturday 22 June, before the start of the 2024 mid-year international window.

Format

The competition format continues on from the previous season, with the fixture list being the only change. Twelve teams play in a round-robin format, with seven matches at home and seven away, although the second round (called "Super Round") will be played at . The fourteen games include eleven regular round-robin matches against the other participating teams and three additional "rivalry" games, in which they play another team for the second time in a home-and-away format. Each team will also have one bye week, making a total of fifteen rounds. At the conclusion of the fifteenth round, the eight highest ranked teams on the competition table will advance to the

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, in which the first-ranked team plays the eighth-ranked team, the second-ranked team plays the seventh-ranked, the third-ranked plays the sixth-ranked and the fourth-ranked team plays the fifth-ranked. The quarter-final winners progress to the semi-finals, and the winners of the semi-finals advance to the final. The higher ranked team will host each play-off match. The rankings on the competition table are determined by the number of competition points earned during the regular season. Competition points can be gained in the following way: four points are awarded to the winning team, two points to each team for a draw, and no points for a loss. Teams can also receive a singular

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if they score at least three tries more than the opponent in a match, or lose by seven points or less.

Standings

The current standings for the 2024 Super Rugby Pacific season are:

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

Finals

Statistics

Leading point scorers

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Leading try scorers

Source
Tries
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Discipline

Players

Squads

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

Referees

The following referees were selected to officiate the 2024 Super Rugby Pacific season:

References

External links

* Official 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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