2023 Super Rugby Aupiki season

2023 Super Rugby Aupiki season
Countries New Zealand
Tournament format(s)Round-robin and knockout
ChampionsMatatū (1st title)
Matches played10
Tries scored96 (9.6 per match)
Top point scorer(s)Renee Holmes, Matatū (59)
Top try scorer(s)Luka Connor, Chiefs Manawa (7)
Official websiteOfficial site
2022 (Previous) (Next) 2024

The 2023 Super Rugby Aupiki season was the second season of Super Rugby Aupiki (known as Sky Super Rugby Aupiki for sponsorship reasons), a professional women's rugby union club competition organised by New Zealand Rugby. The competition ran from 25 February 2023 – when Hurricanes Poua and Chiefs Manawa played the opening match in Levin – to 25 March 2023.[1]

The tournament was won by Matatū, who defeated Chiefs Manawa 33–31 in the final in Hamilton, earning them their first Super Rugby Aupiki title. That match also resulted in the Chiefs Manawa's first-ever loss in the two-year-old competition.[2]

  1. ^ "Sky Super Rugby Aupiki set to entertain in 2023". allblacks.com. 8 February 2023. Retrieved 28 March 2023.
  2. ^ Chapman, Grant (25 March 2023). "Super Rugby Aupiki: Matatū shock defending champions Chiefs Manawa to snatch women's crown". Newshub. Retrieved 25 March 2023.