2015 Super Rugby Final

The 2015 Super Rugby Final, was played between the Hurricanes and the Highlanders. It was the 20th final in the Super Rugby competition's history and the fifth under the expanded 15-team format. This was the first Super Rugby final between two New Zealand teams since 2006 when the Hurricanes were beaten by the Crusaders.

2015 Super Rugby Final
Event2015 Super Rugby season
Date4 July 2015
VenueWestpac Stadium, Wellington
RefereeJaco Peyper (South Africa)
Attendance36,000

The match was won by the Highlanders who beat the Hurricanes by seven points. The Highlanders, became the first team to win the competition having failed to win a conference. They also became the first team to win the competition having played in the qualifiers round.

In New Zealand 583,620 people tuned in to watch

Road to the Final

Finals Series qualifying teams
Conference leaders
Pos Team W D L PD BP Pts
1 Hurricanes 1402+1701066
2 Waratahs 1105+96852
3 Stormers 1015+50345
Wildcard teams
4 Highlanders 1105+117953
5 Chiefs 1006+73848
6 Brumbies 907+1081147
Source: SANZAR [1]

The 2015 Super Rugby competition involved fifteen teams, five each from South Africa, Australia and New Zealand.[2] The 2015 season was the fifth year of an expanded 15 team format (12 teams competed between 1996 and 2005, before increasing to 14 between 2006 and 2010).[2]

The competition began on 13 February with the regular season consisting of 120 matches over eighteen weeks. Each team played the others from their own conference (both home and away), plus four out of five teams from the other two countries (two at home and two away in each case). The top six teams after the regular season advanced to the finals.[2]

The Hurricanes finished top of the New Zealand conference and topped the overall standings, with fourteen wins and just two losses during the season (one being to the Australian conference winner, the Waratahs). The South African conference winner was the Stormers, and the three wildcard teams making the playoffs were the Highlanders, Chiefs, and Brumbies.

The play-off fixtures were as follows:

Qualifying finals Semifinals Grand final
                             
  20 June 2015  
3   Stormers 19  
6   Brumbies 39           27 June 2015      
        1   Hurricanes 29    
        6   Brumbies 9     4 July 2015
                Hurricanes   14
            27 June 2014       Highlanders   21
          2   Waratahs 17    
  20 June 2015         4   Highlanders 35    
  4   Highlanders 24          
  5   Chiefs 14          

Qualifiers

Semi-Finals

References

  1. "Super Rugby - Official SANZAAR Site". SANZAR. Archived from the original on 15 June 2015. Retrieved 6 August 2017.
  2. "About Super Rugby". SANZAR. Retrieved 21 December 2015.
  3. "Highlanders move on to semi-finals". SANZAR. 20 June 2015. Retrieved 27 June 2015.
  4. "SA Rugby Match Centre – Highlanders 24-14 Chiefs". South African Rugby Union. 20 June 2015. Retrieved 31 May 2016.
  5. "Six-try Brumbies stun the Stormers". SANZAR. 21 June 2015. Retrieved 27 June 2015.
  6. "SA Rugby Match Centre – DHL Stormers 19-39 Brumbies". South African Rugby Union. 20 June 2015. Retrieved 31 May 2016.
  7. "Hurricanes surge into Super Rugby Final". SANZAR. 27 June 2015. Retrieved 27 June 2015.
  8. "SA Rugby Match Centre – Hurricanes 29-9 Brumbies". South African Rugby Union. 27 June 2015. Retrieved 31 May 2016.
  9. "SA Rugby Match Centre – Waratahs 17-35 Highlanders". South African Rugby Union. 27 June 2015. Retrieved 31 May 2016.
Preceded by
2014 Super Rugby Final
Super Rugby Final
2015
Succeeded by
2016 Super Rugby Final
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