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Super Rugby Women's is an annual professional women's rugby union club competition organised by Rugby Australia. It is contested by five clubs from Australia and one club from Fiji, who play a single series of round-robin matches to determine the four participants of a single-elimination tournament. The competition replaced the representative National Women's Championship with five teams owned by the Australian Super Rugby franchises, and began play in the 2018 season as an amateur league known as the Super W. The 2022 season saw the addition of a team from Fiji, and the introduction of salaries for players. The league adopted its current name in the 2024 season. Fijiana Drua are the current champions, while the New South Wales Waratahs have won the most championships (4).

History

The league commenced in the 2018 season as an amateur league. Buildcorp were named as the league's naming rights partner, while Gilbert were named as the official supplier of the league's rugby balls.[] For the inaugural season, the teams' playing lists were constructed from scratch throughout the later stages of 2018. Clubs were asked to nominate a list of desired players, with the Super W assigning two of these "marquee" players to each club. In addition, clubs were able to sign a number of players with existing connections to the club, or with arrangements for club sponsored work or study.[] In the 2019 season, the Western Force were replaced by a team representing RugbyWA.

The 2020 season was suspended following the fifth and final round of the regular season, due to lockdowns imposed by various state governments in late March, following the outbreak of COVID-19 in Australia. The planned playoff between the second-placed Reds and third-placed Brumbies, and the subsequent grand final, were cancelled in April; the first-placed Waratahs were declared champions once more. The Waratahs would finish a fourth straight undefeated season in 2021, which was played almost entirely at Coffs Harbour International Stadium in a pool format, and featured the temporary addition of a "President's XV" team composed of players from New South Wales and Queensland. The Western Force returned to the league, but withdrew after the first round to avoid the continuing COVID-19 pandemic in New South Wales.

「スーパーW」とは、ラグビーユニオンのトーナメントであり、日本国内のトップクラブチームが参加する大会です。このトーナメントは、日本国内のラグビーユニオンリーグであるトップリーグの上位チームが出場権を獲得し、優勝を争います。

「スーパーW」は、その名の通り、参加チームの強豪クラブが集結し、熱い戦いが繰り広げられることで知られています。各チームは、攻撃力と守備力を駆使し、相手チームに対して優位なポジションを築きながら、トライやゴールを獲得することを目指します。

このトーナメントは、数週間にわたって行われ、各チームはホーム&アウェー方式で対戦します。試合は、スピードとフィジカルの要素が絶えず求められるため、選手たちは全力でプレーし、観客に熱狂的な試合を提供します。

「スーパーW」は、日本国内のラグビーファンにとっては、年間を通じて最も注目される大会の一つです。優勝チームは、その年の最強クラブとして認められ、栄光を手にします。また、このトーナメントは、若手選手の成長や才能の発掘の場としても重要な役割を果たしており、日本のラグビー界の発展にも貢献しています。

「スーパーW」は、ラグビーユニオンの魅力を最大限に引き出す大会であり、プレーの激しさやスキルの高さ、そしてチームワークの重要性を体現しています。観客は、迫力満点の試合を楽しむことができるだけでなく、日本のラグビー文化を堪能することもできます。