The Hurricanes have delivered arguably the greatest Grand Final performance in Super Rugby history, defeating the Chiefs 60-5 in Wellington.<\/p>\n
The hosts completed a near-perfect season with their finest performance of 2026, blowing away the Chiefs in a one-sided showing for the ages.<\/p>\n
Fehi Fineanganofo and Josh Moorby both created history, becoming the all-time record holders for most tries in a single season with 17.<\/p>\n
It was one-sided traffic throughout the 80 minutes as the Hurricanes ended a 10-year drought in style, with flyhalf Ruben Love contributing 25 points in the rout.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s the biggest ever win in a Super Rugby decider, besting the Bulls\u2019 61-17 win over the Chiefs in 2009.<\/p>\n
The Chiefs were handed a pre-match reprieve as captain Luke Jacobson passed a pre-game fitness test.<\/p>\n
But it ended there as the red-hot Hurricanes attack mastered the blustery conditions in a dominant first half.<\/p>\n
Moorby opened the scoring in the sixth minute, briefly tying the record for most tries in a Super Rugby season with his 16th.<\/p>\n
Flyhalf Love added to the scoring with a classy play eight minutes later, picking up the loose ball and stepping the covering defender for the try.<\/p>\n
With the Chiefs struggling to deal with the conditions, twice putting the restart dead, the Hurricanes continued to strike as Fineanganofo officially wrote his name in the record books.<\/p>\n
The winger crossed for his 17th of the season after backing up Callum Harkin, swan diving over to the delight of the crowd.<\/p>\n
The Chiefs had little answer, with their best chance coming in the 30th minute when they were held over the line.<\/p>\n
As the half wound down, the Hurricanes kicked further into gear, with a late Harkin try and a long-range Love penalty completing a near-perfect half, leading 29-0 at the break, the biggest ever in a Final.<\/p>\n
This lead only grew as Moorby joined Fineanganofo on top with his second of the night, sharing the record.<\/p>\n
Flanker Devan Flanders got in on the fun after running a great line off Love, returning from a layoff due to a concussion.<\/p>\n
Centre Jordie Barrett\u2019s try only added to the carnage, capping off his excellent night as Hnry Stadium was well into celebration mode.<\/p>\n
But the best try was still to come when number eight Peter Lakai broke clear, leading to a short side raid for Love to deliver some magic.<\/p>\n
The flyhalf somersaulted over the defender and somehow stayed in, bringing up 50 and his second for the night.<\/p>\n
The Chiefs saved themselves from a slice of history, with Naitoa Ah Kuoi\u2019s late try ensuring they didn\u2019t become the first team to be held scoreless in a decider.<\/p>\n
But it was all in vain as Jone Rova capped off an all-time performance with a last-minute try, capping off a special night in the New Zealand capital.<\/p>\n
Hurricanes 60\u00a0(Tries: Moorby 2, Love 2, Barrett,\u00a0Fineanganofo, Harkin, Rova, Flanders; Cons: Love 6; Pens: Love)\u00a0def Chiefs 5\u00a0(Tries: Ah Kuoi)<\/p>\n
Teams:<\/p>\n
Hurricanes:\u00a015 Callum Harkin, 14 Josh Moorby, 13 Billy Proctor, 12 Jordie Barrett (co-captain), 11 Fehi Fineanganofo,10 Ruben Love, 9 Cam Roigard, 8 Peter Lakai, 7 Du\u2019Plessis Kirifi (co-captain), 6 Devan Flanders, 5 Warner Dearns, 4 Isaia Walker-Leawere, 3 Pasilio Tosi, 2 Asafo Aumua, 1 Xavier Numia
\n\tReplacements:\u00a016 Jacob Devery, 17 Siale Lauaki, 18 Tyrel Lomax, 19 Brad Shields, 20 Brayden Iose, 21 Ereatara Enari, 22 Jone Rova, 23 Kini Naholo<\/p>\n
Chiefs:\u00a015 Liam Coombes-Fabling, 14 Leroy Carter, 13 Kyle Brown, 12 Quinn Tupaea, 11 Kyren Taumoefolau, 10 Damian McKenzie, 9 Cortez Ratima, 8 Simon Parker, 7 Luke Jacobson (captain), 6 Samipeni Finau, 5 Tupou Vaa\u2019i, 4 Josh Lord, 3 Sione Ahio, 2 Samisoni Taukei\u2019aho, 1 Ollie Norris
\n\tReplacements:\u00a016 Brodie McAlister, 17 Jared Proffit, 18 George Dyer, 19 Seuseu Naitoa Ah Kuoi, 20 Kaylum Boshier, 21 Xavier Roe, 22 Josh Jacomb, 23 Reon Paul<\/p>\n
Referee:\u00a0Nic Berry (Australia)
\n\tAssistant referees:\u00a0Reuben Keane (Australia), Louis Trisley (Australia)
\n\tTMO:\u00a0Brett Cronan (Australia)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Hurricanes have delivered arguably the greatest Grand Final performance in Super Rugby history, defeating the Chiefs 60-5…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":486988,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-486987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486987","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=486987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486987\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/486988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}