Super Rugby is a professional rugby union competition for clubs from the southern hemisphere, which began as Super 12, with teams from New Zealand, Australia and South Africa, formed in the new professional era of the sport. It brought together the best provincial and state players, and became the main competition of the southern hemisphere. It expanded several times, adding teams from Argentina, Japan and elsewhere, before being reduced again in the late 2010s. After the pandemic, the competition was reorganised as Super Rugby Pacific, with New Zealand and Australian teams along with Fijian and Pacific Island sides, while South African teams joined European competitions. The Crusaders, from New Zealand, have won the most titles.
Before and after
- 1996Founding of Union State
- 1996Creation of OCaml
- 1996Creation of Active Server Pages
- 1996Creation of Windows Embedded Compact
- 1996Origins of Super Rugby
- 8 January 1996Death of François Mitterrand
- 30 January 1996Discovery of Comet Hyakutake
- from 13 February 1996 to 21 November 2006Nepalese Civil War
- 17 February 1996Launch of NEAR Shoemaker
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The era
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