Buildcorp NRC Competition Launch with Buildcorp MD Tony Sukkar and team captains

The 2014 National Rugby Championship (known as the Buildcorp National Rugby Championship for sponsorship reasons) was the inaugural season of Australia's

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, involving nine professional

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teams from around Australia. The competition kicked off on 21 August 2014. The final was held on 1 November 2014 and won by Brisbane City.

Teams and venues

The nine teams for the 2014 NRC season included four from

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, two from

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, and one each from

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, and

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: Home match venues for the 2014 NRC season:

Experimental Law Variations

As part of the initial championship, the ARU was given approval by the IRB to conduct experimental law trials as part of the 2014 National Rugby Championship. Proposed law variations were first considered by a panel composed of the current

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coach Ewen McKenzie, former Wallabies coach

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, former Wallaby

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and former top referee Wayne Erikson. The variations were then put to the voting public, before returning to the panel. The variations in place for the 2014 and 2015 seasons are listed below.

Regular season

The nine teams compete in a

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for the regular season. Each team has four matches at home and four away, and one bye. The top four teams qualify for the title play-offs with semi-finals and finals.

Standings

Round-by-round

Competition rounds

Round 1

Round 2

Round 3

Round 4

Round 5

Round 6

Round 7

Round 8

Round 9

Title play-offs

The top four sides in the regular season advanced to the knock-out stage of semi-finals and final to decide the National Rugby Championship title.

Semi-finals

Final

Season attendances

Players

The leading scorers in 2014 over the regular season and play-offs combined were:

Leading try scorers

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Leading point scorers

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Notes

Reference list

External links

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ARU Board approves nine team National Rugby Championship to start in August 2014

Team webpages

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