2012 ITM Cup

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Countries New Zealand Runners-up Auckland Dates 23 Aug 2012 – 27 Oct 2012 Country New Zealand Matches played 76		Champions Canterbury Promoted Counties Manukau Location New Zealand Relegated Hawke's Bay Rugby Union
Tries scored 448 (average 5.895 per match) Top point scorer Gareth Anscombe (Auckland)191 points Champion Canterbury Rugby Football Union Similar 2015 ITM Cup, 2016 Mitre 10 Cup, 2014 Super Rugby se, 2015 Super Rugby se, 2016 Super Rugby se

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The 2012 ITM Cup season was the seventh season since the competition reconstruction in 2006 and the second under the new Premiership and Championship format. For the ITM Cup competition it involved the top 14 provincial unions of New Zealand. The tournament was won by Canterbury, who defeated Auckland 31–18 in the competition final. For sponsorship reasons, the competition was known as the ITM Cup and it was currently the third season under the new sponsor. Including the defunct National Provincial Championship, this is the 36th season of New Zealand's premier domestic competition. The regular season matches took place from 23 August until 14 October – followed by the semi-finals that culminated in the final on 27 October.

The 2012 season saw Hawke's Bay enter the Premiership division for the first time, having replaced the under-performing Southland. Hawke's Bay achieved three victories in their inaugural division, but finished last following the regular season.

Competition format

Covering 10 weeks, the schedule features a total of 76 matches. The 14 teams are grouped and divided into two divisions of seven teams, labelled the Premiership Division and the Championship Division. They are based on their on-field finishing positions following the previous year, teams finishing 1–7 will form the Premiership, teams finishing 8–14 will form the Championship. Including a promotion/relegation process between the winner of the Championship receiving automatic promotion to the Premiership replacing the seventh placed team in the Premiership which will be relegated to the Championship for the following year. The regular season consists of two types of matches:

Internal Division Matches – Each team plays the other six teams in the same division once, home or away.

Cross Division Matches – Each team plays four teams from the other division, thus missing out on three teams (each from the opposite division). Each team plays home or away games against teams from the other division, making a total of ten competition games for each team.

The top four teams of each division, will move on to the finals. The top two division winners, based on table points, received a home semi-final. In the first round of the finals, the semi-finals, the second division winner hosts the third division winner, and the first division winner hosts the fourth division winner. The final is hosted by the top remaining seed.

There is also the Ranfurly Shield. It is automatically contested when the holder of the shield plays at home in any round (excluding semis and final).

Standings

Source: itmcup.co.nz

Legend:

Pld = Games Played, W = Games Won, D = Games Drawn, L = Games Lost, PF = Points for, PA = Points against, PD = Points difference, TF = Tries For, TA = Tries Against, TB = Try Bonus points, LB = Losing Bonus points, Pts = Log Points

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

The Overall Standings classification system:

Four Division Winners/Leaders in log points order

The remaining three teams in log points order

When teams are level on log points, they are sorted by:

the winner of the round robin match between the two provinces

highest overall points difference

highest number of tries scored

highest number of points scored

a coin toss

Points Scorers

Updated: 27 October 2012

Regular Season

The results of the season were as follows:

References

2012 ITM Cup Wikipedia

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