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New Zealand Rugby chief executive Steve Tew can imagine Super Rugby expanding beyond 18 teams, labelling the expanded four-conference model announced for 2016 as an “advancement” on the existing format and the most balanced solution to appease all parties.
Tew said SANZAR officials had an open mind about the location of the 18th team, with a decision likely to be made early next year. The new franchise is open to tender, with interest expressed already by officials in Japan, Singapore, Hong Kong and the west coast of the United States.
“We think it’s a great chance for our competition to explore the possibilities,” he said. “They’ll have to have a venue that is suitable, the financial backing to be sustainable over a period of time, and they’ll have to show us they can put a competitive team on the field without filling it full of Kiwis.”
Tew made no apology for another change to the championship, which has had three different models since the Super 12 was launched in 1996, saying rugby is still finding its feet compared with more established professional sports. And he says Super Rugby has the scope to tap into many more markets, with only Europe an unlikely area for expansion.
“I could envisage in the future four vertical conferences which are bigger than they are now, which would confine the travel and increase the markets that we’re in,” Tew said. “Then we might end up with a finals series that’s almost global.”
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Super Rugby can grow "almost global"
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