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| Founded | 1996 |
|---|---|
| Region | Hawke's Bay Manawatu |
| Ground(s) | McLean Park Palmerston North Showgrounds |
| Coach(es) | Frank Oliver |
| Captain(s) | Bull Allen |
| Most caps | Orcades Crawford Tom Deighton (26) |
| Top scorer | Jarrod Cunningham (382) |
| Most tries | Roger Randle (16) |
| League(s) | NPC |
| 1998 | 1st |
Central Vikings Rugby Union was a New Zealand rugby union team that played in the second division of the NPC for two seasons in 1997 and 1998. The team, formed from the merger of the Hawke's Bay and Manawatu unions, featured current and future All Blacks and a former All Black in coach Frank Oliver. It came second in its division in 1997, and first in 1998, and would have progressed to the first division. However, following financial trouble it split back into the two separate unions.
Reviving the Central Vikings as a Super Rugby team was floated in 2016, but this did not occur.