• Source: 2013 Super Rugby season

      • The 2013 Super Rugby season was the third season of the new 15-team format for the Super Rugby competition involving teams from Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. The tournament was won by the Chiefs, who defeated the Canberra-based Brumbies 27–22 in the competition final. For sponsorship reasons, this competition is known as FxPro Super Rugby in Australia, Investec Super Rugby in New Zealand and Vodacom Super Rugby in South Africa. Including the past incarnations as Super 12 and Super 14, this was the 18th season of the Southern Hemisphere's premier domestic competition. Conference matches took place every weekend from 15 February until 13 July – with a break between rounds 17 and 18 for internationals games – followed by the play-offs series that culminated in the final on 3 August.
      The 2013 season saw the Southern Kings of South Africa enter the competition for the first time, having replaced the under-performing Lions. The Kings achieved three victories in their inaugural tournament, but finished last following the regular season, and were defeated by the Lions in a two-leg play-off for a position in the South African conference for the 2014 season.


      Competition format


      Covering 25 weeks, the schedule featured a total of 125 matches. The 15 teams were grouped by country, labelled the Australian Conference, New Zealand Conference and the South African Conference. The regular season consisted of two types of matches:

      Internal Conference Matches – Each team played the other four teams in the same conference twice, home and away.
      Cross Conference Matches – Each team played four teams of the other two conferences away, and four teams of the other two conferences home, thus missing out on two teams (one from each of the other conferences). Each team played two home and two away games against teams from each of the other countries, making a total of eight cross conference games for each team.
      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 first-round byes. In the first round of the finals, the third conference winner was the #3 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 #2 conference winner hosted the higher surviving seed from the first round, and the #1 conference winner hosted the other first-round winner. The final is hosted by the top remaining seed.
      In addition, a two-legged promotion/relegation play-off took place at the end of the season between the bottom team in the South African Conference and the Lions, with the winner qualifying for Super Rugby in 2014.


      Standings



      Source: sanzarrugby.com


      = Round-by-round

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      Regular season




      = Round 1

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      = Round 2

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      = Round 3

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      = Round 4

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      = Round 5

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      = Round 6

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      = Round 7

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      = Round 8

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      = Round 9

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      = Round 10

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      = Round 11

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      = Round 12

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      = Round 13

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      = Round 14

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      = Round 15

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      = Round 16

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      = Round 17

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      = Round 18

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      = Round 19

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      = Round 20

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      Finals




      = Qualifiers

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      = Semi-finals

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      = Final

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      Promotion/relegation play-offs


      The Promotion/Relegation series is not an official part of the Super Rugby competition as organised by SANZAR. Instead, it was introduced by SARU to give the sixth South African franchise an opportunity to qualify for Super Rugby.


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      = Results

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      Lions are promoted to Super Rugby for 2014.
      Southern Kings are relegated from Super Rugby for 2014.


      Players




      Referees


      The following refereeing panel was appointed by SANZAR for the 2013 Super Rugby season:


      Attendances




      See also



      Super Rugby


      External links


      "SANZAR Super Rugby site".
      "Australia Super Rugby site".
      "New Zealand Super Rugby site".
      "SA Rugby Competition – 2013 Vodacom Super Rugby". South African Rugby Union. Retrieved 8 June 2016.
      "2013 Super Rugby Media Guide".


      References

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