Blues Rugby And Everything To Know | Super Rugby 2025 Preview
Blues Rugby And Everything To Know | Super Rugby 2025 Preview
Blues Rugby and everything to know about the 2025 Super Rugby season.
One of the world’s best professional rugby leagues returns for the 2025 season on Feb. 14, as the Super Rugby begins.
Super Rugby, armed with a new schedule format, played its first season in 1996 when SANZAR was formed and now features 11 teams from Australia, New Zealand, Fiji and other Pacific Islands.
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Loaded with All Blacks and Wallabies on the rosters throughout the league, Super Rugby joins the likes of the United Rugby Championship, Top 14 and the Premiership as one of the world’s best rugby competitions.
This year, the league plays its first matches on Valentine's Day, and that includes the defending Super Rugby champions, the Blues.
Here’s what to know about the Auckland Blues:
Blues Won Super Rugby Championship In 2024
The Blues won the Super Rugby final and snapped the long title reign of its rival the Crusaders, who had won every Super Rugby championship since 2017.
With the Crusaders failing to qualify for the playoffs, the Blues of Auckland, New Zealand, took advantage.
They beat the Chiefs in matchup of the previous two Super Rugby runners-up in the final, 41-10.
The Blues finished second in the table with 55 points and a 12-0-2 record, one point behind the Hurricanes.
The club has added to its roster with the addition of All Black super star Beauden Barrett. After he played in Japan, Barrett returned last year, and there was debate on whether he could play in the Super Rugby playoffs, but World Rugby regulations wouldn't allow it.
Barrett, 33, is a two-time World Rugby Player of the Year.
When Was The Last Time The Blues Won Back-To-Back Super Rugby Championships?
With Barrett back for the Blues, the club is trying to repeat as champions for the first time since 1997.
How Many Times Have The Blues Won The Super Rugby Championship?
The club has won the Super Rugby title four times, including the first two in 1996 and 1997 and again in 2003. But they went 21 years before winning again in 2024.
How Many All Blacks Are On The Blues?
There were nine 2024 All Blacks who played for the Blues in 2024. Barrett makes 10, though he didn't play for the Blues last season.
- Caleb Clarke, Outside Back: Blues
- Dalton Papali’i, Loose Forward: Blues
- Harry Plummer, First Five-Eighths: Blues
- Mark Tele’a, Outside Back: Blues
- Ofa Tu’ungafasi, Prop: The Blues
- Patrick Tuipulotu, Lock: Blues
- Rieko Ioane, Mid-fielder: Blues
- Sam Darry, Lock: Blues
- Stephen Perofeta, Outside Back: Blues
- Beauden Barrett, First Five-Eighths: Blues
Who Coaches The Blues?
Vern Cotter coaches the Blues and won the Super Rugby championship in his first season as the head coach. He signed an extension with the club after the title.
Before joining the Blues, he was the coach of the Fiji national team from 2020-2023.
Cotter also is the former national coach for Scotland and coached for Clermont of the Top 14 from 2006-2014.
Where Do The Blues Play?
The Blues play at Eden Park in Auckland, New Zealand.
How To Watch The Blues Play Rugby In U.S.
Every 2025 Super Rugby match, including the playoffs, is streaming live on FloRugby and the FloSports app.
Blues Rugby Fixtures And Super Rugby Schedule
- Round 1 – Saturday, Feb. 15: Blues vs. Chiefs (1:05 a.m. ET)
- Round 2 – Saturday, Feb. 22: Highlanders vs. Blues (1:05 a.m. ET)
- Round 3 – Saturday, March 1: Hurricanes vs. Blues (1:05 a.m. ET)
- Round 4 – Friday, March 7: Blues vs. Brumbies (1:05 a.m. ET)
- Round 5 – Saturday, March 15: Chiefs vs. Blues (2:05 a.m. ET)
- Round 6 – Saturday, March 22: Blues vs. Crusaders (2:05 a.m. ET)
- Round 8 – Saturday, April 5: Blues vs. Hurricanes (2:05 a.m. ET)
- Round 9 – Friday, April 11: Blues vs. Moana Pasifika (12:35 a.m. ET)
- Round 10 – Friday, April 18: Crusaders vs. Blues (3:05 a.m. ET)
- Round 11 – Friday, April 25: Reds vs. Blues (5:35 a.m. ET)
- Round 12 – Friday, May 2: Blues vs. Force (3:05 a.m. ET)
- Round 13 – Friday, May 9: Fijian Drua vs. Blues (3:05 a.m. ET)
- Round 14 – Saturday, May 17: Moana Pasifika vs. Blues (3:05 a.m. ET)
- Round 16 – Friday, May 30: Blues vs. Waratahs (12:35 a.m. ET)
Super Rugby Pacific 2025 Fixtures
Round 1
Friday, Feb. 14
- 1:05 a.m. ET: Crusaders vs. Hurricanes
- 3:35 a.m. ET: Waratahs vs. Highlanders
- 10:35 p.m. ET: Fijian Drua vs. Brumbies
Saturday, Feb. 15
- 1:05 a.m. ET: Blues vs. Chiefs
- 3:35 a.m. ET: Force vs. Moana Pasifika
Round 2
Friday, Feb. 21
- 1:05 a.m. ET: Chiefs vs. Crusaders
- 3:35 a.m. ET: Reds vs. Moana Pasifika
- 10:35 p.m. ET: Hurricanes vs. Fijian Drua
Saturday, Feb. 22
- 1:05 a.m. ET: Highlanders vs. Blues
- 3:35 a.m. ET: Brumbies vs. Force
Round 3
Friday, Feb. 28
- 1:05 a.m. ET: Moana Pasifika vs. Highlanders
- 3:35 a.m. ET: Waratahs vs. Fijian Drua
- 10:35 p.m. ET: Chiefs vs. Brumbies
Saturday, March 1
- 1:05 a.m. ET: Hurricanes vs. Blues
- 3:35 a.m. ET: Force vs. Reds
Round 4
Friday, March 7
- 1:05 a.m. ET: Blues vs. Brumbies
- 10:35 p.m. ET: Fijian Drua vs. Chiefs
Saturday, March 8
- 1:05 a.m. ET: Moana Pasifika vs. Hurricanes
- 3:35 a.m. ET: Waratahs vs. Force
- 9:35 p.m. ET: Crusaders vs. Reds
Round 5
Friday, March 14
- 2:05 a.m. ET: Highlanders vs. Hurricanes
- 4:35 a.m. ET: Brumbies vs. Fijian Drua
- 11:35 p.m. ET: Crusaders vs. Force
Saturday, March 15
- 2:05 a.m. ET: Chiefs vs. Blues
- 4:35 a.m. ET: Reds vs. Waratahs
Round 6
Friday, March 21
- 2:05 a.m. ET: Moana Pasifika vs. Chiefs
- 11:35 p.m. ET: Highlanders vs. Reds
Saturday, March 22
- 2:05 a.m. ET: Blues vs. Crusaders
- 4:35 a.m. ET: Waratahs vs. Brumbies
Sunday, March 23
- 2:05 a.m. ET: Force vs. Fijian Drua
Round 7
Friday, March 28
- 2:05 a.m. ET: Hurricanes vs. Waratahs
- 4:35 a.m. ET: Brumbies vs. Highlanders
Saturday, March 29
- 2:05 a.m. ET: Crusaders vs. Moana Pasifika
- 4:35 a.m. ET: Reds vs. Force
Round 8
Friday, April 4
- 2:05 a.m. ET: Chiefs vs. Reds
- 9:05 p.m. ET: Moana Pasifika vs. Waratahs
- 11:35 p.m. ET: Fijian Drua vs. Crusaders
Saturday, April 5
- 2:05 a.m. ET: Blues vs. Hurricanes
- 4:35 a.m. ET: Force vs. Highlanders
Round 9
Friday, April 11
- 3:05 a.m. ET: Hurricanes vs. Crusaders
- 5:35 a.m. ET: Waratahs vs. Chiefs
- 12:35 a.m. ET: Blues vs. Moana Pasifika
Saturday, April 12
- 3:05 a.m. ET: Highlanders vs. Fijian Drua
- 5:35 a.m. ET: Reds vs. Brumbies
Round 10
Friday, April 18
- 3:05 a.m. ET: Crusaders vs. Blues
- 9:05 p.m. ET: Moana Pasifika vs. Brumbies
- 11:35 p.m. ET: Fijian Drua vs. Waratahs
Saturday, April 19
- 3:05 a.m. ET: Chiefs vs. Highlanders
- 5:35 a.m. ET: Force vs. Hurricanes
Round 11
Friday, April 25
- 3:05 a.m. ET: Chiefs vs. Force
- 5:35 a.m. ET: Reds vs. Blues
- 12:35 a.m. ET: Moana Pasifika vs. Fijian Drua
Saturday, April 26
- 3:05 a.m. ET: Highlanders vs. Crusaders
- 5:35 a.m. ET: Brumbies vs. Hurricanes
Round 12
Friday, May 2
- 3:05 a.m. ET: Blues vs. Force
- 10:05 p.m. ET: Fijian Drua vs. Reds
Saturday, May 3
- 3:05 a.m. ET: Hurricanes vs. Chiefs
- 5:35 a.m. ET: Brumbies vs. Waratahs
- 11:35 p.m. ET: Highlanders vs. Moana Pasifika
Round 13
Friday, May 9
- 3:05 a.m. ET: Fijian Drua vs. Blues
- 5:35 a.m. ET: Waratahs vs. Reds
Saturday, May 10
- 3:05 a.m. ET: Crusaders vs. Chiefs
- 5:35 a.m. ET: Force vs. Brumbies
Round 14
Friday, May 16
- 3:05 a.m. ET: Hurricanes vs. Highlanders
- 5:35 a.m. ET: Waratahs vs. Crusaders
- 11:35 p.m. ET: Fijian Drua vs. Force
Saturday, May 17
- 3:05 a.m ET: Moana Pasifika vs. Blues
- 5:35 a.m. ET: Brumbies vs. Reds
Round 15
Friday, May 23
- 3:05 a.m. ET: Crusaders vs. Highlanders
- 5:35 a.m. ET: Reds vs. Hurricanes
Saturday, May 24
- 3:05 a.m. ET: Chiefs vs. Moana Pasifika
- 5:35 a.m. ET: Force vs. Waratahs
Round 16
Friday, May 30
- 3:05 a.m. ET: Highlanders vs. Chiefs
- 5:35 a.m. ET: Brumbies vs. Crusaders
- 12:35 a.m. ET: Blues vs. Waratahs
Saturday, May 31
- 3:05 a.m. ET: Hurricanes vs. Moana Pasifika
- 5:35 a.m. ET: Reds vs. Fijian Drua
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