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Bunnings NPC

The National Provincial Championship (NPC) 🏉, known as the Bunnings NPC, is a professional rugby union competition for New Zealand 🇳🇿 provincial unions consisting of 14 teams. See below for the latest Bunnings NPC predictions.

Divided equally between the Premiership Division and the Championship Division, the NPC remains the second highest level of professional rugby union in New Zealand, after Super Rugby. 🏆

The NPC’s 11-week season runs from two weeks after Super Rugby ends to the third week after Labour Day. Each team plays 10 games and having one week playing twice. Following the conclusion of the regular season, four teams from each division advance to their respective play-offs, a single-elimination tournament of semi-finals and final.

HISTORY

The current NPC competition was formed in 2006 as the Air New Zealand Cup, as the replacement of the original National Provincial Championship for the 2006 season. The New Zealand Rugby Union (NZRU) introduced the beginning of a professional era, announcing New Zealand’s first ever professional rugby competition following the 2005 season, following the creation of the 14 new professional unions.

In 2021, Bunnings Warehouse replaced Mitre 10 as the competition’s main naming sponsor in a three-year deal. The competition format of the Bunnings NPC was the same as the Mitre 10 Cup for the 2021 season. However, from 2022 the competition reverted to a single division with all 14 teams playing for one single NPC title. The top eight teams qualify for the knockout stages

The team with the most NPC championships is Auckland with 17 (with two titles after the NPC era). The team with the most modern day-NPC championships is Canterbury Rugby Union with 9. 🔥

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