{"id":15742,"date":"2023-12-19T15:00:07","date_gmt":"2023-12-19T02:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/waibush.co.nz\/wp\/?p=15742"},"modified":"2023-12-19T10:25:58","modified_gmt":"2023-12-18T21:25:58","slug":"new-2024-premier-club-rugby-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/waibush.co.nz\/wp\/2023\/12\/19\/new-2024-premier-club-rugby-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"New 2024 Premier Club Rugby Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The WBRU Council of Clubs are pleased to announce a new format for the 2024 Premier Club Competition after reviewing the 2022 and 2023 season post COVID.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The\u00a0WBRU Council of Clubs recognizes that the landscape of club rugby is continually changing and therefore must be proactive in the approach to how rugby is delivered in the region.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The new format will see all 12 clubs having an opportunity to enter into one full round of games (commencing the first week after Easter 2024) and then splitting into a top 5 Championship round, with the top 5 teams playing one full round to determine the semi-finalist who will then contest the Chris \u201cMoose\u201d Kapene Cup, while the teams ranked 6 or lower will play off in a second division competition.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">There will be no promotion\/relegation games from 2024 as all clubs will be able to enter into the round robin competition in 2025.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The final format, draw and dates will be determined once clubs have confirmed their entry into the 2024 competition by 4 March 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The WBRU Council of Clubs are pleased to announce a new format for the 2024 Premier Club Competition after reviewing the 2022 and 2023&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15324,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-club-rugby","category-wbru-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/waibush.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/343156976_898844491329162_3668545267678121395_n.png?fit=1640%2C924&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4apEV-45U","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/waibush.co.nz\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/waibush.co.nz\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/waibush.co.nz\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/waibush.co.nz\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/waibush.co.nz\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15742"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/waibush.co.nz\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15746,"href":"https:\/\/waibush.co.nz\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15742\/revisions\/15746"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/waibush.co.nz\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/waibush.co.nz\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/waibush.co.nz\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/waibush.co.nz\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}