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  •   Home > News > Sports > Rugby

    Provincial women's teams have been given the green light to return to the rugby pitch later in the year

    Provincial women's teams have been given the green light to return to the rugby pitch later in the year


    NZ Rugby have confirmed a Farah Palmer Cup competition to kick off on August 22.

    13 teams will compete, divided into North and South pools, with seven weeks of round-robin play before two weeks of finals.

    © 2025 Newstalk ZB, NZCity

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     03 Dec: Striving to compete with a specialist American medley training squad is the reason behind two-time Olympian Lewis Clareburt making the move to Australia
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     02 Dec: All Black Rieko Ioane is poised to make his Leinster rugby debut in Sunday's Champions Cup opener against Harlequins
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