The Super Rugby Pacific Qualifying Final fixtures featuring the Hurricanes and Chiefs have been confirmed with both sides having secured hosting rights courtesy of a top-two finish on the competition ladder.<\/p>\n
With their opponents still to be determined across the final two weeks of the regular season, the Hurricanes will kick off the 2026 Super Rugby Pacific Finals Series on Friday 5 June at Hnry Stadium in Wellington.<\/p>\n
The Chiefs will host their Qualifying Final at FMG Stadium Waikato in Hamilton on Saturday 6 June.<\/p>\n
The Super Rugby Pacific Finals Series opens with three Qualifying Finals, with the 3rd vs. 4th Qualifying Final fixture details to be confirmed once the competing teams are known.<\/p>\n
The three winning teams in the Qualifying Finals progress to the Semi-Finals along with the highest-ranked losing team (the ‘lucky loser’).<\/p>\n
In a variation from last season, in 2026 the ‘lucky loser’ will be relegated to the lowest seeding for the Semi-Finals and as such forego any chance to host the Semi-Final or the Grand Final, should they progress.<\/p>\n
FINALS SERIES WEEK ONE – QUALIFYING FINALS<\/p>\n
FRIDAY 5 JUNE
\n\t7.05pm NZST \/ 5.05pm AEST \u2013 Hurricanes vs. (5th or 6th) \u2013 Hnry Stadium, Wellington<\/p>\n
SATURDAY 6 JUNE
\n\t7.05pm NZST \/ 5.05pm AEST \u2013 Chiefs vs. (5th or 6th) \u2013 FMG Stadium Waikato, Hamilton<\/p>\n
*3rd vs. 4th – day and time TBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Super Rugby Pacific Qualifying Final fixtures featuring the Hurricanes and Chiefs have been confirmed with both sides…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":440448,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,213],"class_list":["post-440447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}