Super 14s

Super 14 is the biggest Rugby Union club competition in the Southern Hemisphere. Making up the fourteen competing sides are five teams each from New Zealand and South Africa and four from Australia. The fourteen teams play each other once in the regular season. Each team has one week free so the regular season lasts for fourteen weeks in total.

The competition involves some of the best players in the world as the majority of All Blacks, Wallabies and Springboks players play for a team in the Super 14.

Teams are ranked by the number of points they win. Teams get four points for a win, two points for a draw. Bonus points are also awarded with one point given to a team that scores four or more tries in a game and one point awarded to a team that loses by 7 points or less.

At the end of the season the teams that finish in the top four positions enter a two week  knockout phase of the competition. The top ranked side will play the fourth placed team the second and third placed teams face each other for a place in the final. The semi finals are played at the highest ranked teams home ground as opposed to a neutral venue.

Teams from New Zealand are the most successful in the competition, in the fourteen previous seasons ten of the final winners were from New Zealand. The most successful team are the Canterbury Crusaders with a total of seven wins in nine final appearances. No other team comes close to their level of success.

Australia’s most successful team in the Super 14 are the ACT Brumbies with two championships. The Blue Bulls are the current holders of the Super 14 trophy and are the South African with the most titles (2). The Bulls defeated the Chiefs of New Zealand 61-17 in last seasons Grand Final, played at the Loftus Versfeld Stadium, Pretoria.

This season the Bulls and the Crusaders are the bookies favourites. Bulls are best priced at 11/2 to keep the title while the Crusaders are slight favourites at 4/1.

Super 14 Betting Odds