Top point scorer(s) Lima Sopoaga (191) Official website Official site Champion Highlanders Tries scored 633 | Top try scorer(s) Waisake Naholo (13) Date 2015 Matches played 125 | |
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Tournament format(s) Round-robin and knockout Champions Highlanders (1st title) Countries Australia, New Zealand, South Africa Similar 2016 Super Rugby se, 2014 Super Rugby se, 2008 Super 14 season, 2015 Rugby World Cup | ||
The 2015 Super Rugby season was the 20th season of Super Rugby and the fifth season featuring an expanded 15-team format. For sponsorship reasons, this competition was known as Asteron Life Super Rugby in Australia, Investec Super Rugby in New Zealand and Vodacom Super Rugby in South Africa. The round-robin matches took place every weekend from 13 February until 13 June, followed by the finals series and culminating in the final on 4 July. This was the final season that featured a 15-team format.
Contents
Competition format
Covering 21 weeks, the schedule featured a total of 125 matches. The 15 teams were grouped geographically, labelled the Australian Conference, New Zealand Conference and the South African Conference. The regular season consisted of two types of matches:
The top team of each conference, plus the next top three teams in table points regardless of conference (wild card teams), moved on to the finals. The top two conference winners, based on table points, received byes in the qualifier round. In the qualifier round, the third conference winner was the number three seed and hosted the wild card team with the worst record, and the best wild card team hosted the second-best wild card team. In the semi-finals, the number two conference winner hosted the higher surviving seed from the first round, and the number one conference winner hosted the other first-round winner. The final was hosted by the top remaining seed.
Round-by-round
The table below shows each team's progression throughout the season. For each round, their cumulative points total is shown with the overall log position in brackets:
Matches
The following matches were played during the 2015 Super Rugby regular season:
Player statistics
The following table contain points which were scored in the 2015 Super Rugby season:
Referees
The following refereeing panel was appointed by SANZAR for the 2015 Super Rugby season: