2025 SUPER RUGBY AUS

[Tazzmania]

2025 SUPER RUGBY AUS SCHEDULE


ROUND 1

NSW Waratahs v Western Force - Time TBC, Saturday 13 September, Venue TBC

Queensland Reds v ACT Brumbies - Time TBC, Sunday 14 September, Venue TBC

ROUND 2

NSW Waratahs v Queensland Reds - 5.45pm AEST Saturday 20 September, Dangar Park, Narrabri (Santos Festival of Rugby)

Western Force v ACT Brumbies - Time TBC, Sunday 21 September, Venue TBC

ROUND 3

ACT Brumbies v NSW Waratahs - Time TBC, Saturday 27 September, Viking Park, Canberra

Western Force v Queensland Reds - Time TBC, Sunday 28 September, Venue TBC

GRAND FINAL

Sunday 5 October - TBC v TBC

[Tazzmania]

Rugby Australia confirms new domestic Super Rugby AUS competition to kick off in September

Rugby Australia has confirmed that a new domestic competition, featuring Australia's four Super Rugby clubs, will kick off in September....

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[tjs10]

That's great news, and should be double-headers with Super Rugby U19 too!

Good to see that there will be a couple more games for the fringe/development players that didn't get their chance during the regular SR Pacific season.

[SNOB]

2025 SUPER RUGBY AUS SCHEDULE


ROUND 1

NSW Waratahs v Western Force - Time TBC, Saturday 13 September, Venue TBC

Queensland Reds v ACT Brumbies - Time TBC, Sunday 14 September, Venue TBC

ROUND 2

NSW Waratahs v Queensland Reds - 5.45pm AEST Saturday 20 September, Dangar Park, Narrabri (Santos Festival of Rugby)

Western Force v ACT Brumbies - Time TBC, Sunday 21 September, Venue TBC

ROUND 3

ACT Brumbies v NSW Waratahs - Time TBC, Saturday 27 September, Viking Park, Canberra

Western Force v Queensland Reds - Time TBC, Sunday 28 September, Venue TBC

GRAND FINAL

Sunday 5 October - TBC v TBC

Great news that we get some more rugby but I don’t understand why it’s not a home and away series.

[Sheikh]

Great news that we get some more rugby but I don’t understand why it’s not a home and away series.

Reading some of the comments on the Roar, it's because it allows the series to be wrapped up before the November tests up North. But to me, the Wallabies shouldn't be involved. This should be a series for the non-Test players and academy/local players. Start the series after the various local competitions are over and run it for 6 weeks of home and away plus a grand final (although I've always wondered why you need a grand final after a home and away season!)

We (at least I) bemoaned that the women's series is too short - you can't get a proper idea of how consistently good a player is in a 5 game season, so it encourages the women to also play league/AFLW. And we won't really be able to identify any local/academy talent in a 3-4 game season as they'll still be learning their combinations.

[tjs10]

Reading some of the comments on the Roar, it's because it allows the series to be wrapped up before the November tests up North. But to me, the Wallabies shouldn't be involved. This should be a series for the non-Test players and academy/local players. Start the series after the various local competitions are over and run it for 6 weeks of home and away plus a grand final (although I've always wondered why you need a grand final after a home and away season!)

We (at least I) bemoaned that the women's series is too short - you can't get a proper idea of how consistently good a player is in a 5 game season, so it encourages the women to also play league/AFLW. And we won't really be able to identify any local/academy talent in a 3-4 game season as they'll still be learning their combinations.

Agreed.
I also hear you re the need for a Grand Final.

Coming from the UK, where the soccer and, for a long time, the rugby both had very successful home/away products without the need for a Grand Final, it still irritates me that the team that is the most consistently successful across the season can still lose the title to a team that is able to perform best in a couple of one-off knockout matches.

That said, from a commercial point of view, I can see the reasons for a GF:
- Limits the number of dead-rubber games at the back end of the season
- Potential revenue-generator via sponsorship, broadcast & gate (both through season extension & GF media coverage)

However neither of those reasons would exist in Super Rugby AUS.
- Even with a "full" H/A season of 6 games, few would be dead rubbers unless you had a really dreadful/amazing start to the season
- Broadcast rights will have already been sold to Stan for this (or, more likely, given for free) so no new revenue there. I doubt it will have a (material) title sponsor, and any GF gate will be outweighed by the cost of bringing in at least one team, venue hire, operational costs etc, so having a GF will almost certainly COST, rather than generate, money for RA.

Hopefully SR teams will still look to organise their recent Spring Tour games too, to allow those extra opportunities to trial local/academy talent. Reds have already locked in another 2 games vs Wild Knights (1 dev & one full fixture) for late October, and hopefully Force will look to do something similar too.

[Tazzmania]

Lets hope it is the foundation to a more comprehensive competition, but at least it is a start and we have something.

Notes:

* Lets celebrate a small win in a tough landscape.

* Not often we get two home games two weeks in a row and on a Sunday.

[AndyS]

Agreed.
I also hear you re the need for a Grand Final.

Often thought, if they were smart, they would design a two part trophy. First piece being League winner home and away, and the second piece being the finals, each a functional trophy in its own right but fitting together into a more impressive construction for teams managing the 'double crown'. Could make a whole thing of fitting them together at the prize giving for those that make it.

[.X.]

Any word from Force HQ about Memberships/Tickets/Merchandise for the new Aus competition?

[Sheikh]

Lets hope it is the foundation to a more comprehensive competition, but at least it is a start and we have something.

Yep. We shouldn't let the search for perfection get in the way of good.

[AndyS]

Weeellll, yes-ish, subject to the sizeable assumption that 'good' doesn't mean the end of all further searching. The way it was last time...

[tjs10]

Any word from Force HQ about Memberships/Tickets/Merchandise for the new Aus competition?

Not even sure of KO or venue yet!

[Sheikh]

Any word from Force HQ about Memberships/Tickets/Merchandise for the new Aus competition?

Can you make the NSW v Queensland match at Narrabri, X?

[.X.]

A 7-hour drive (each way) to watch a Rugby Match between two teams I have minimal interest in.

Probably not.

[Sheikh]

Blimey, it's further away from you than either Sydney or Brisbane is. Sorry, hadn't realised that, I just saw you were ~due east of Narrabri. Why the hell is Santos having a festival of ruby all the way out there? It's like Western Australia playing South Australia in Norseman.