{"id":747585,"date":"2026-06-19T22:27:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T22:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/747585\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T22:27:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T22:27:08","slug":"chiefs-seek-redemption-in-super-rugby-pacific-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/747585\/","title":{"rendered":"Chiefs seek redemption in Super Rugby Pacific Final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Chiefs will be hoping to end their three-year Super Rugby Pacific final drought when they take on the Hurricanes tonight in Wellington.<\/p>\n<p>The Chiefs reached the Super Rugby Pacific finals in 2023, 2024 and 2025 but were unsuccessful on all three occasions.<\/p>\n<p>That record will undoubtedly be in the back of the players&#8217; minds, but they can take confidence from their victory over the Hurricanes earlier this season, as well as their win against the defending champions, the Crusaders, in last week&#8217;s semi-final.<\/p>\n<p>The last time the Chiefs lifted the Super Rugby title was in 2013 when they defeated the Brumbies 27-22.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Chiefs and Hurricanes have met 48 times, with the Chiefs winning 22 of those encounters.<\/p>\n<p>The last time the two sides met was on April 18 this year, when the Chiefs secured a 22-17 victory.<\/p>\n<p>The Chiefs will face the Hurricanes at 7.05 tonight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Chiefs will be hoping to end their three-year Super Rugby Pacific final drought when they take on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":747586,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,349132,760,85],"class_list":["post-747585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-photo-super-rugby","tag-rugby","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=747585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/747586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=747585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=747585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=747585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}