Fantasy Rugby Championship launches for 2025 competition

Wed, Aug 6, 2025, 5:00 AM
Nathan Williamson
by Nathan Williamson

SANZAAR has revealed the creation of the Fantasy Rugby Championship for the 2025 season.

Following the success of the Super Rugby Pacific edition, users will get the chance to build a squad and battle it out with friends, family and on the global leaderboard.

The format follows a similar structure to the Super Rugby Pacific format, albeit with a few tweaks.

There will be a budget of $100m to build a team consisting of 15 players, with average prices of players increasing to make decisions even tougher to nail down a team.

A minimum of three and a maximum of six from any Rugby Championship nation must be selected in each fantasy team.

Also, 50-22 has been introduced as a new scoring play, with any successful kick worth 10 points.

This is the second highest scoring play for an individual, only behind scoring a try (15).

Springboks flyer Cheslin Kolbe and All Blacks star Will Jordan are the most valued players in the competition with $10 million.

Beauden Barrett is the highest valued flyhalf with $9.5 million, with Kurt-Lee Arendse closely behind at $9 million.

For Australia, Tom Wright is the most valuable player at $8.5 million, with Argentina flyhalf Tomás Albornoz the best for Los Pumas at $8 million.

As in Super Rugby Pacific Fantasy, there will be unlimited transfers across the entire competition, with three boosters also available.

They are the following: 

  1. Triple Captain – Your captain will score you triple points for their next match.
  2. Limitless – You will have an unlimited budget for one round only.
  3. Co-Captains – For one round only, you will be able to select two captains to score double points. 

Fantasy Rugby Championship will implement a rolling lockout mechanic whereby players will become locked as soon as their team plays in the current round. 

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