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The 2012 Heartland Championship was the seventh season of the
Heartland Championship The Heartland Championship is an annual Round-robin tournament, round-robin rugby union competition in men's domestic Rugby union in New Zealand, New Zealand rugby. First played in 2006, it is the third highest level of List of rugby union comp ...
, New Zealand's provincial
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competition, since its reorganisation in 2006, involving the 12 amateur rugby unions in New Zealand. The format was the same as in 2011. The tournament's round robin stage saw the 12 teams play 8 games. The top four teams in the table at the end of the 8 weeks played off for the
Meads Cup The Meads Cup is a rugby union trophy named after King Country Rugby Football Union, King Country and All Blacks player Colin Meads. It is contested during the Heartland Championship. It was first awarded in 2006 Heartland Championship, 2006, when ...
, while the next four contested the Lochore Cup.


Teams

The 2012 Heartland Championship was contested by the following teams:


Table


Results

The fixtures were released on 28 March 2012.


Week 1


Week 2


Week 3


Week 4


Week 5


Week 6


Week 7


Week 8


Finals


Semifinals

Meads Cup Lochore Cup


Finals

Meads Cup Lochore Cup


Statistics


See also

* Hanan Shield competed for by Mid Canterbury, North Otago and South Canterbury * Rundle Cup played between Buller and West Coast *
New Zealand Heartland XV The Heartland XV is one of several New Zealand representative rugby union Rugby union football, commonly known simply as rugby union in English-speaking countries and rugby 15/XV in non-English-speaking world, Anglophone Europe, or often ju ...
* Ranfurly Shield 2010–2019 *
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References

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