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Super Rugby moves to speed up game with time limits, reduced TMO usage
Sanzaar's Super Rugby Pacific competition is introducing rule changes aimed at making its matches more fluid and entertaining for fans
Rugby Australia threatens to leave Super Rugby for a ‘more lucrative’ domestic format
Rugby Australia chairman Hamish McLennan has said Australia could exit trans-Tasman Super Rugby in 2024 for a purely domestic competition
Sky ties down Sanzaar rights to 2025
Pay-television broadcaster Sky Sports has agreed a fresh rights deal in the UK and Ireland with Sanzaar, the joint-venture enterprise representing the international rugby unions of Argentina, Australia,…
Sanzaar still confident of securing UK broadcast deal
Sanzaar remains confident of agreeing a broadcast rights deal in the United Kingdom for international fixtures despite being unable to secure an agreement for the inaugural Super Rugby Pacific season
South Africa commits to Rugby Championship, Sanzaar to hold new World Nations talks
Southern hemisphere rugby union alliance Sanzaar has announced that South Africa will continue to play in its annual Rugby Championship tournament until at least 2025
Sanzaar to stream Super Rugby Pacific in overseas markets
Sanzaar, the southern hemisphere rugby union alliance, will stream live coverage of the inaugural Super Rugby Pacific season in territories that do not have broadcast rights agreements in place
FloSports secures exclusive Sanzaar media rights deal in US
United States-based streaming service FloSports has secured an exclusive broadcast agreement with Southern Hemisphere rugby union alliance Sanzaar through 2025, SportBusiness can reveal.
New Zealand Rugby sells Blues stake to local investors
A group of New Zealand businessmen and rugby union figures acquired a 40-per-cent stake in Super Rugby team the Blues in a deal with New Zealand Rugby in a deal agreed just before Christmas
Super Rugby Pacific delays cross-border matches amid new NZ restrictions
Men's professional rugby union club competition Super Rugby Pacific will begin with nine weeks of domestic fixtures after organisers were forced to delay cross-border matches due to tightened Covid restrictions…
Super Rugby’s new Pacific format unveiled
A new format of the Southern Hemisphere's Super Rugby club competition will launch in 2022, with two new Pacific Islands teams joining the existing five teams each from Australia and New Zealand
Queensland to host remainder of Rugby Championship
An agreement has been reached between the members of the Sanzaar rugby grouping to host the remaining matches of this year's Rugby Championship in Queensland, Australia
South Africa makes Rugby Championship offer
SA Rugby, the governing body of rugby union in South Africa, has offered to host the remainder of the 2021 Rugby Championship following the cancellation of fixtures in New Zealand
Rugby Championship mulls ‘mid-competition switch to Europe’
The Rugby Championship is considering a mid-tournament switch to Europe as part of a backup plan to ensure that its fixture list can be completed
Fortinet to sponsor Rugby Championship, Bledisloe Cup rescheduled
New Zealand Rugby has signed cyber security solutions company Fortinet as the naming rights sponsor of this year’s Rugby Championship as plans were confirmed to reshuffle the Bledisloe Cup series between t…
Argentina to travel to South Africa for Rugby Championship opener
World champions South Africa will mark their return to the Rugby Championship, the southern hemisphere-based international rugby union tournament, with a doubleheader against Argentina in South Africa
South Africa to return to Rugby Championship in 2021
The Rugby Championship, the southern hemisphere-based international rugby union tournament, will welcome back world champions South Africa for its 2021 edition
Canal Plus retains Sanzaar rights in France
French pay-television broadcaster Canal Plus has renewed its rights to top-tier rugby union competitions in the Southern Hemisphere in a new agreement with governing body Sanzaar