The 2024 Super Rugby Aupiki season was the third 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 2 March 2024when Chiefs Manawa and Hurricanes Poua played the opening match in Hamiltonto 13 April 2024.
The tournament was won by Blues Women, who defeated Chiefs Manawa 24âÂÂ18 in the final in Auckland, earning them their first Super Rugby Aupiki title.
In 2024, the competition was extended from three regular season matches and two play-off matches to a complete home and away round-robin format, followed by a final. This meant that each of the four teams played at least six games during the regular seasonthree at home and three away. The two highest ranked teams at the end of the regular season contested the final at the home ground of the highest placed team. The new competition format resulted in a total of thirteen matches played over a seven-week period.
The standings at the end of the round-robin of the 2024 Super Rugby Aupiki season were:
The draw for the third season of Super Rugby Aupiki was announced on 5 December 2023. The competition started on 2 March 2024, when Chiefs Manawa hosted Hurricanes Poua in Hamilton. The final between Blues Women and Chiefs Manawa took place on Saturday 13 April 2024 in Auckland. Some of the regular season matches were standalone fixtures, while others were double-headers with matches played by the teams' Super Rugby Pacific counterparts.
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The following squads have been named for the 2024 season.