1996 Super 12 season

1996 Super 12 season

The 1996 season of the Super 12, the rugby union competition, was the inaugural season and was won by the Auckland Blues. It was a notable season because it was the first of professional rugby union in the Southern Hemisphere (the Northern Hemisphere had their first season a few months earlier due to the seasonal differences). The season was also the first of 10 under the deal between SANZAR and News Corporation which gave all broadcasting rights to News Limited for the Super 12, Tri-Nations, all in-bound tours and test matches and in Australia, New Zealand and South Africa as well as provincial competition matches. The deal was collectively worth $550,000,000 USD.

The teams from Australia and New Zealand were regionally-based franchises, a system that has continued to this day. South Africa used a different system for determining its Super 12 teams. The top four sides from the previous season of the country's domestic competition, the Currie Cup, were granted berths in the Super 12. This system would continue through the 1998 competition; only in 1999 did South Africa adopt the same franchise system used by the other two participating countries.

Final Standings

:

Playoffs

*Home team listed first.

emi-Finals

References

*McIlraith, M. (2005)."Ten Years of Super 12", Auckland: Hodder Moa. ISBN 1-86971-025-8


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