Super Rugby will create its earliest start to a year in the history of the competition next year, together with the game.
Auckland Blues will sponsor the Waikato Chiefs on January 31 at the season opener and the tournament will now run uninterrupted until July, once the Evaluation window begins.
In preceding non-World Cup decades, the hemisphere competition chose a fracture before restarting early July, to adapt an global window in June.
“An sooner than usual start has been required to get through the 21-week championship and provide the federal teams with a transparent week leading into the July test collection,” said Andy Marinos, the chief executive of regulating body SANZAAR.
The 2020 Super Rugby season are also the period for the Sunwolves of Japan following them cut following the Japan Rugby Union’s decision to take their financial support of the team.
It is going to be the year of this seminar system, using a direct round-robin structure to return in 2021.
When they confront Waratahs, champions Crusaders will start their bid for a fourth title on February 1.
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