List of New Zealand rugby union teams

This is the list of the main first-class rugby union teams in New Zealand, including national teams, Super Rugby teams, Mitre 10 Cup teams, and Heartland Championship teams. The list does not include women's teams, local club or school teams, inactive teams, such as the North and South Island teams, or non-geographic representative teams, such as the New Zealand Universities, Marist, or Barbarians sides.

A map of NZRU provincial boundaries

National representative teams

Super Rugby teams

North Island unions
Team Formed Division Changes
Auckland 1883 Mitre 10 Cup
Bay of Plenty 1911 Mitre 10 Cup
Bush 1890 - 1971 merged with Wairarapa in 1971
Central Vikings 1997-1998 short-term merger of Manawatu and Hawke's Bay
Counties Manukau 1955 Mitre 10 Cup Formerly South Auckland 1926-1955
East Coast 1922 Heartland Championship
Hawke's Bay 1884 Mitre 10 Cup
Horowhenua-Kapiti 1893 Heartland Championship
King Country 1922 Heartland Championship
Manawhenua 1924-1933 short-term merger of Horowhenua and Manawatu
Manawatu 1886 Mitre 10 Cup
North Harbour 1985 Mitre 10 Cup
Northland 1920 Mitre 10 Cup Formerly North Auckland 1920-1994
Poverty Bay 1890 Heartland Championship
Taranaki 1885 Mitre 10 Cup
Thames Valley 1921 Heartland Championship
Waikato 1921 Mitre 10 Cup Formerly South Auckland 1909-1921
Wairarapa 1886 - 1971 merged with Bush in 1971
Wairarapa Bush 1971 Heartland Championship Merger with Wairarapa and Bush
Wanganui 1888 Heartland Championship
Wellington 1879 Mitre 10 Cup

South Island unions
Team Formed Division Changes
Buller 1894 Heartland Championship
Canterbury 1879 Mitre 10 Cup
Mid Canterbury 1904 Heartland Championship Formerly Asburton County 1927-1952
Golden Bay-Motueka 1920-1967 merged with Nelson in 1967
Marlborough 1888-2005
Nelson 1885-1967 merged with Golden Bay-Motueka in 1967
Nelson Bays 1968-2005 Merger of Golden Bay-Motueka and Nelson
North Otago 1904 Heartland Championship
Otago 1881 Mitre 10 Cup
South Canterbury 1888 Heartland Championship
Southland 1887 Mitre 10 Cup
Tasman 2006 Mitre 10 Cup Merger of Marlborough and Nelson Bays
West Coast 1890 Heartland Championship

See also
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