2015 Super Rugby Final
| Event | 2015 Super Rugby season | ||||||
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| Date | 4 July 2015 | ||||||
| Venue | Westpac Stadium, Wellington | ||||||
| Referee | Jaco Peyper (South Africa) | ||||||
| Attendance | 36,000 | ||||||
The 2015 Super Rugby Final, was played between the Hurricanes and the Highlanders. It was the 20th final in the Super Rugby competition's history and the fifth under the expanded 15-team format. This was the first Super Rugby final between two New Zealand teams since 2006 when the Hurricanes were beaten by the Crusaders.
The match was won by the Highlanders who beat the Hurricanes by seven points. The Highlanders, the first away team to win the competition, became the first team to win the competition having failed to win a conference. They also became the first team to win the competition having played in the qualifiers round.
In New Zealand 583,620 people tuned in to watch
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The top six teams will qualify to the finals, with their final positions in the overall log determining their seedings in the finals. The third-placed team (i.e. the conference winners with the worst overall record) will host the sixth-placed team in the qualifiers, while the fourth-placed team will host the fifth-placed team. The top two teams (i.e. the two conference winners with the best overall record) will qualify directly to the semi-finals, where they will have home advantage against the two qualifier winners, with the top team hosting the qualifier winner with the lower seeding and the second-placed team hosting the qualifier winner with the higher seeding. The two semi-final winners will progress to the final, with the team with the higher seeding having home advantage.
Points breakdown:
* 4 points for a win
* 2 points for a draw
* 1 bonus point for a loss by seven points or less
* 1 bonus point for scoring four or more tries in a match
Classification:
Teams standings are calculated as follows:
* Conference Leaders (i.e. conference leaders will always be ranked in the top three)
* Log points
* Number of games won
* Overall points difference
* Number of tries scored
* Overall try difference
The 2015 Super Rugby competition involved fifteen teams, five each from South Africa, Australia and New Zealand.
The Hurricanes qualified for the playoffs by finishing top of the New Zealand conference and also topped the overall standings, with fourteen wins and just two losses during the season.
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